Interesting DNA Results from AncestryDNA
Logically you want to say that you are 50% from your mother and 50% from your father. The reality is that it isn’t exactly 50% from each parent. I am of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent and first-generation born in the US mainland while my husband is Haitian born. I had my husband and two…
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…
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…
An Amusing Discovery – Jean-Jacques Philippe Guerrier and Juan Antonio Alvarez Cartagena
So as usual, I’m always coming across some really interesting facts about my ancestry and things that occurred in the past. First I was very surprised to discover that my Dominican Cartagena line was very political and involved in the revolution and independence of the country. I came across a surprising article about my 2nd…
The Cabreja Family in Dominican Republic
I purchased Roots Magic 7 as an alternative to FamilyTree Maker as I had heard great things about the software. Here are some of the things I like: Easily import my trees from FamilyTree Maker. Run many reports and are much easier to generate Save reports in many different formats Connects to FamilySearch for research…
Canarios in Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic
I had the most amazing 2015 in regards to genealogy. I was able to find my great grandmother’s parents’ names thanks to her filing a Social Security application within 3 weeks of arriving in the USA in the 1940’s. She joined the ranks of working along with the many other immigrants that came to America. …