Searching and Viewing Puerto Rico Church Records
POST UPDATED ON 7/30/2017 WITH CORRECTED LINKS Currently, a portion of Puerto Rico’s Roman Catholic Church records is available to be viewed online. Another portion is only available by visiting the local Family History Library (FHL) near your home. With so many locations available throughout the world, it can be an inexpensive or free way…
Navigating Dominican Republic’s Archive Website ~ Immigrant Entry Database – Entradas de Inmigrantes
The last segment that I want to cover is the best of all the catalogs available on the Dominican Republic’s National Archives by far that can be found here. I love this database because it contains people from all over the world who visited, stayed to live, or maybe have left. I have found people…
Navigating Dominican Republic’s Archive Website ~ Archivo General de la Nacion – Part 7 – Reference Catalog
The Reference Catalogs or Catalogos de Referencia which appears the second from the bottom on the menu is a nice way of gaining access to books and documents. When you click on the link it will lead to a new page and provide you with the view I have provide below. Notice the error message…
Navigating Dominican Republic’s Archive Website ~ Archivo General de la Nacion – Part 6 – Bernando Vega Collection
So now I want to speak to the Bernardo Vega Collection. Basically he was a historian of Dominican Republic’s history. When you click on the link, it will open a new window which provides a brief description. To save you time, I copied the entire page and dropped it into Google Translate. Below is…
Navigating Dominican Republic’s Archive Website ~ Archivo General de la Nacion – Part 5 – Revista Clio
The next post is truly a short one if you have been following my blog posts about Dominican Republic’s National General Archive also known as the Archivo General de la Nacion (agn.gov.do). In my prior post I spoke about the Archivo’s Boletin and the Revista Clio functions in the same manner that the Boletins do.…
Maria Florentina Alvarez Castillo
I always say to keep an open mind when researching your ancestors. It is important to read up on the history of the region including when a town was established and when a church was erected in the town. This has helped immensely in finding records when researching my ancestors. Well, this way of thinking…