Category: family tree research tools

Researching Your Haitian Ancestry

Recommendations in researching your Haitian ancestry: Document what you know about your family.  Create a family tree on Ancestry.  Make sure you add at least the country of birth if you’re not sure what city a person was born.   A generation consists of 20 to 30 years.  So if you are not certain of when…

By Anna Bayala July 2, 2016 0

Gregorio Alvarez Cueto

In a prior post about PARES,Spain’s online archives, I mentioned how I located Teresa Cueto in the records.  However I don’t believe I explained how I knew who she was.  I’ve also posted about her granddaughter, Maria Florentina Alvarez Castillo.  So how did I make the connections?  Very easily! You see wedding records are the…

By Anna Bayala July 1, 2016 0

Expansion of the Blog

In having my DNA done, one of things that I discovered is how my tree is nowhere near the size it should be. Although my family tree currently contains over 6,600 relatives, it is a far cry from what it should be displaying.  The family tree I have is from many years of researching and…

By Anna Bayala June 23, 2016 1

Ramon Soiza Ortiz

Ramon Soiza Ortiz is not a direct ancestor of mine but he is related to me.  He is actually my 4th great grand uncle.  He is also the son of Ignacio Soiza del Carmen and Casimira Cerefina Ortiz de la Cruz.  One of the things I found quite interesting is that although he was born…

By Anna Bayala June 21, 2016 2

Diego Fontanes Zamora and Juana Delgado de Castro

Diego Fontanes Zamora lived on the island of Puerto Rico in the 1600’s and more than likely in the city of San Juan.  While I have not been able to locate his birth record, I was able to locate his wedding record, estimated his age, and used this information to locate his parent’s marriage record. …

By Anna Bayala June 13, 2016 0

Juan Rodriguez de Fontanes Garcia & Isabel Lopez de Zamora Malave

Juan Rodriguez de Fontanes Garcia is my 9th great grandfather. To many of you he may be your 8th great grandfather or even 10th great grandfather.  It all depends which generation you connect with him.  While I was able to find my Bayala 5th great grandfather arriving in Puerto Rico in 1803, he happened to…

By Anna Bayala June 13, 2016 0