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…
1800’s Census, Court Indictments, Foreigners and Military Records
As you go through the available Census records for Puerto Rico, as a community reminder, FamilySearch makes these records available via volunteers. Please assist them with indexing their records to make them all easily searchable. Just 30 minutes a day will help many of those who struggle to find records; including you. Please note that…
Caguas Puerto Rico 1800’s Digitized Census and Other Records Available Online
When I originally posted about the Puerto Rico Census records for the 1800’s availability from FamilySearch, they were reporting as not being available online but only by film. After sending them a trouble ticket over the weekend asking for a status, I was told that some were already available for access. I am going to…
Traveling Puerto Rican and Dominican Families – Finding Your Ancestors
Happy 2016 everyone! Nothing like starting off the new year by celebrating our family and culture! One thing I have learned as well as many of you is that each of us carry DNA that is global. Our culture and islands have seen people from all over the world. So my next blog post is…
Casimero Bayala Carmona and Ana Beatriz Aleman Betancourt
Below is the wedding record of two Canary Island descendants; Casimero and Ana Beatriz. Casimero was born on 15 of May in 1846 in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. We know this thanks to his baptism record which can be found in Book 2A of baptism in the same church he married Ana Beatriz. Ana Beatriz…