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. …
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…
PARES – Portal to Spain’s Archives – Part 2
So since I ended my prior post and didn’t go further into details, I’m going to explain one more piece that I didn’t elaborate when searching in PARES. You can check out my prior post at the below link. As a reminder, this entire blog works using pop-ups. Any link I provide always opens a…
PARES – Portal to Spain’s Archives
So I’m finally getting around to talking about PARES -Portal to Spain’s Archives. One of the most amazing and largest archives globally as well as one of the most difficult to navigate. Some of their archives go back as far as the 1400s. The archives are so vast that it is said that they have…
Indexing: Why You Should Help Family Search
It is truly a great resource to be able to access records, view them, search for them via indexes when we visit www.familysearch.org. I find it to be an amazing resources for all of us to be able to browse through records that would cost us thousands upon thousands of dollars as well as countless…
The Descendants of Francisco Delgado Manso in Puerto Rico
Although I know that Francisco Delgado Manso’s father was the son of Francisco Delgado and Juana Manso de Espinosa, I purposely let them off the tree since based on PARES records, Francisco Delgado (the grandfather) was the first to come of this Delgado line to Puerto Rico in the 1500’s. If you visit PARES, you…