This post has been updated on July 4th, 2017 and includes all records for Yauco Yauco is where I have many DNA cousins from. I don’t know how but they are there. I suspect these cousins come from the Caguas region and migrated to this part of the island over time. The one thing I…
While the US Civil War led to the freedom of many enslaved people, the same cannot be said for other regions of the Americas. Slavery was completely abolished in Haiti in 1803 and finally in 1822 in current day Dominican Republic thanks to the then Haitian President. However, Puerto Rico was still enslaving many. Many…
If you were ever told that census records don’t exist for the 1800s then the likelihood is that the person just wasn’t aware. One such group is FamilySearch themselves and they have the records. I had written to them asking when would the Puerto Rico census records be digitized and uploaded. The response I received…