Puerto Rico Newspapers – Find Your Ancestors in the 1800s and 1900s
One of the places that people do not realize exist in digital format is newspapers. Puerto Rico had more than just local newspapers, they also had the Gazette. The Gazette was known to have information involving government transactions. It is great that you can locate an ancestor in civil and church records, but it doesn’t…
Finding Enslaved Ancestors in Puerto Rico Through Registries Online
Finding enslaved ancestors in some parts of the world is much easier than in the United States. The slaveholders of many Africans and African descents were usually counted as notches in the United States census and records. One pattern that I noticed with countries held by Spain is that that was not the case. While…
1800’s Census Records for Lares Puerto Rico Online
While there are limited records, especially church records, for Lares, Puerto Rico. There are other options and access to information for Lares. Most are available by visiting a local Family History Center. However, fortunately, there are some records available online. The records I found are the general census records as well as the laborer census…
Ancestry and History Go Hand in Hand
When we all think of the Caribbean, we always visualize beautiful white sand beaches, tropical heat, palm trees swaying in the breeze, beautiful music, amazingly delicious food, and plenty of friendly islanders that are happy to share their culture. What we have to remind ourselves is that that was not the case back during the…
Genealogy Records for Salinas Church 1854 – 1942
I have been pretty busy but have had quite a few municipalities remaining for Puerto Rico. I recently came back from the Dominican Republic as I’m researching my Dominican side of the family. While I am close to being done for Puerto Rico, I know that that isn’t the case for many researching their lines.…
Spanish Last Names
For this next post I want to change things up a bit. For those of us that were raised in Hispanic household, things may or may not come naturally when understanding the surnames and how it works. I’m going to use visual examples for this post. In the Hispanic community, and it is true no…