Panama Roman Catholic Church Records Searchable Database
FamilySearch updated the search database for Panama’s Catholic Church records just in time for the Christmas holiday. The church records cover a time period from 1707-1973. You can use the link below to search for ancestors’ records. Panama, Catholic Church Records, 1707-1973 Or you can simply browse the images as the database search is limited. …
Challenging Relationships with Our Ancestors
While I haven’t posted in quite awhile, I thought today would be the perfect time to update my blog. We all face challenges in our relationships with our spouses, significant other, our family members, and friends. One of the things I have discovered is that our ancestors are truly no different than any of us…
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. …
Questions on Family Research
I have received many private messages via email or even Ancestry from many cousins with DNA confirmation. Many of us share great grandparents or all the way up to 4th great grandparents. Some of you are double related to me so the centimorgans (cM) we share is higher than it should be. Do not be…
Descendants of Juan Antonio Cartagena & Julia Guzman
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…
Navigating Dominican Republic’s Archive Website ~ Archivo General de la Nacion – Part 5 – Revista Clio
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.…