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. …
Researching Panamanian Ancestry
Panama has a rich history with connections to many in the Caribbean islands of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. No matter which island you are from, you will discover cousins from Panama. Personally I’d like to see an increase in people from the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and South America to have their…
Indexing Project for Dominican Republic Underway – Assistance Needed
Currently there are two projects for Dominican Republic that Family Search is looking for volunteers to transcribe records for their free index. www.Familysearch.org provides free access to digitized records for the entire globe is looking for assistance wint transcribing records written in Spanish. To ensure that records are indexed correctly and accurately, they need our…
Marriages from Book 1 of Cathedral in San Juan – Nuestra Senora de los Remedios
I have spent a lot of time pulling marriage records out of book 1 of marriages for Nuestra Señora de los Remedios. This is the cathedral in San Juan that was originally built in 1521, was destroyed by a hurricane in October 1526 by San Francisco and rebuilt in 1529. It is the 2nd oldest…
Researching Your Belizean Ancestry
Researching your ancestry from Belize formerly known as British Honduras is actually not as hard as some would think. There are many resources available to you where you shouldn’t have to visit the country to find information. Like many other regions of the Caribbean, Central America and South America, names have changed over the years. …
Gregorio Alvarez Cueto
In a prior post about PARES,Spain’s online archives, I mentioned how I located Teresa Cueto in the records. However I don’t believe I explained how I knew who she was. I’ve also posted about her granddaughter, Maria Florentina Alvarez Castillo. So how did I make the connections? Very easily! You see wedding records are the…