Category: Dominican ancestry

PARES – Portal to Spain’s Archives – Part 2

So since I ended my prior post and didn’t go further into details, I’m going to explain one more piece that I didn’t elaborate when searching in PARES.  You can check out my prior post at the below link.  As a reminder, this entire blog works using pop-ups.  Any link I provide always opens a…

By Anna Bayala September 12, 2015 0

PARES – Portal to Spain’s Archives

So I’m finally getting around to talking about PARES -Portal to Spain’s Archives. One of the most amazing and largest archives globally as well as one of the most difficult to navigate.  Some of their archives go back as far as the 1400s.  The archives are so vast that it is said that they have…

By Anna Bayala September 11, 2015 3

Indexing: Why You Should Help Family Search

It is truly a great resource to be able to access records, view them, search for them via indexes when we visit www.familysearch.org.  I find it to be an amazing resources for all of us to be able to browse through records that would cost us thousands upon thousands of dollars as well as countless…

By Anna Bayala August 29, 2015 1

Moca, Dominican Republic Church Books Available Online

Moca is capital of the Espaillat province that is located in the Cibao region of Dominican Republic. If your family is known to come from the Cibao, it doesn’t hurt to research your lines in a town that had two churches in the 1880s. I knew that I kept a list for Moca Church Books…

By Anna Bayala August 26, 2015 0

The Rivas Families of Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic

While researching my grandmother’s Rivas line, I went with what I did know about her.  She was born in La Vega, Dominican Republic in 1911.  Her mother’s name is Mercedes and she came to the US with my uncles in 1948 and she passed away in San Francisco, California while caring for a sick friend…

By Anna Bayala August 22, 2015 0

Santiago de los Caballeros Church Books Partial List

I updated this page on 1/2/2016 to add the entire list of digitized Books for La Altagracia church; scroll down to see those.  For the Catedral, I have not added any updates.  Both churches are in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.  However there are other churches that were not filmed.  One such church is…

By Anna Bayala August 19, 2015 0