Our Caribbean Genealogy
This family line is of Juan Antonio Cartagena and Julia Guzman in Dominican Republic. The below was built from church records I came across in my research and was able to build this family tree. I’m sharing this descendant report so that those researching this family can use the information. I hope that this is…
The last segment that I want to cover is the best of all the catalogs available on the Dominican Republic’s National Archives by far that can be found here. I love this database because it contains people from all over the world who visited, stayed to live, or maybe have left. I have found people…
The Reference Catalogs or Catalogos de Referencia which appears the second from the bottom on the menu is a nice way of gaining access to books and documents. When you click on the link it will lead to a new page and provide you with the view I have provide below. Notice the error message…
So now I want to speak to the Bernardo Vega Collection. Basically he was a historian of Dominican Republic’s history. When you click on the link, it will open a new window which provides a brief description. To save you time, I copied the entire page and dropped it into Google Translate. Below is…
The next post is truly a short one if you have been following my blog posts about Dominican Republic’s National General Archive also known as the Archivo General de la Nacion (agn.gov.do). In my prior post I spoke about the Archivo’s Boletin and the Revista Clio functions in the same manner that the Boletins do.…
People tend to ignore the Boletins in Archives and I can tell you first hand, HUGE mistake! One of the great things about the Boletins is the history it contains. These little magazines speak to things that have occurred on the island as well as the collections the archives contain. This can help you immensely…