Pascacio Betancourt Mangual

As you can see in the below transcription, both grandmothers have the same last name of Garcia. In actuality it turns out that their last name is Garcia Hernandez and they are sisters. They are the daughters of Aquilino Garcia and Natalia Hernandez. This means that Juan Aleman Morales’ parents are 1st cousins or primo…

I find that looking through census records to be very interesting. One thing I’ve noticed was that people who were hired to take the census was either illiterate or just plain dumb when it came to capturing data. The spelling of names were atrocious and to top it off the indexing of records is truly…

First I want to address a question that has been asked by a few.  Why am I sharing my hard work? To answer this question well it starts with the horrible information that is floating on Ancestry. Ancestry even matched me to someone through our DNA simply because this person’s tree has my great grandparents…