Maria del Rosario Betancourt Falcon
One of the many discoveries about the people from the past in Puerto Rico is their perseverance to survive. The ability to validate whether someone existed or not can be very daunting for a genealogist who has to face what these ancestors did to understand what could have happened to the records. One way of…
Betancourt – A Connection from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands to Puerto Rico
As I mentioned in my prior post, Round Robin Genealogy, the Betancourt line connection is riddled with mistakes on Ancestry and many group forums. If you follow the source of the tree that Ancestry gives you a leaf on, you’ll notice that it will lead to a continuous loop from one tree to another until…
Round Robin Genealogy
One of the most erred family lines on Ancestry in Puerto Rico is the Betancourt line; hence the title round robin genealogy. There are so many stories floating around about this line. People claiming stories as facts. I’m constantly smacking my head and wishing that people wouldn’t do that. I want facts people and not…
Researching Your Puerto Rican Genealogy
One of my pet peeves regarding genealogy is the amount of incorrect data. There is plenty of incorrect data on the internet and Ancestry. People join Ancestry and simply start clicking away. As a result, adding ancestors to their family trees without checking the resources. Thus never noticing a lack of resources. Researching your Puerto…
Kissing Cousins – A Reality in All Family Trees
Kissing cousins – a reality in all family trees is a discussion that many of us do not want to have. We do not realize until we start digging into our past. We have to think about the population that existed prior to our existence. Kissing cousins happens more often than we realize. This post…