tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73748389217312563932024-02-06T23:47:47.027-08:00[Genealogy Under Construction]Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history.Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.comBlogger210125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-9207033386303419582020-02-01T09:00:00.000-08:002020-02-01T09:00:05.975-08:00Searching My "Lamboy" Branch<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In the summer of 2018, I clocked in a lot of hours looking into my Yabucoa side of the family. Discovering the church death record of my <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/09/how-one-death-record-got-it-wrong.html" target="_blank">4th great-grandfather Manuel de Santiago</a> fortunately unlocked for me new names of ancestors to search. These searches ultimately took me from Yabucoa to the towns of Humacao and Las Piedras, and what was once a dry well of information became a well filled with new surnames, dates, and ancestors. In this maternal line, I discovered a 7th great-grandfather with the surname "Lamboy" and this is who I want to focus on today. Below you can see how I descend from Feliciano Lamboy via my mother's side of the family.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Feliciano Lamboy - 7th great-grandfather</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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As you can see above, my 6th great-grandmother was the last member of my line to hold Lamboy as a paternal side where afterwards it gets daughtered out, meaning that the descendants of this line changed names based on the fathers, men who were not Lamboy. Here you can see it jumps to Ramos, Santiago (2 generations), Orozco, Dávila, and finally down to me as a Rivera - this is because if most of my ancestors in this line were women.<br />
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My 6th great-grandmother Lucrecia Lamboy Rabelo/Rivera was one of many children from her parents Feliciano Lamboy and María Rabelo/Rivera (she jumps from one or the other depending on record and year). In total, Lucrecia was a part of 13 children in total from this couple (so far) and interestingly enough, her mother's death record in 1803 states that Lucrecia along with Bernarda were born before her marriage with Feliciano. Which means two things: 1) Feliciano and María married and recognized their two first daughters thus giving them the surname "Lamboy" or 2) Lucrecia and Bernarda are from another relationship and Feliciano gave them his surname to protect the girls and the family from being social outcasts. Nonetheless, here we are, searching into this line my family - only DNA will tell if we are genetically "Lamboy", and even then being 7 generations far from me dilutes the amount of DNA I would inherit from this branch of my family. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>3 generations of Lamboy</b> [Personal Family Tree]</td></tr>
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Why are am I so interested in my Lamboy family you may ask? </div>
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<b><u>Lamboy - ¿Español?... ¡No!</u></b></div>
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Every time I come across a new surname in my family that I haven't heard of before, I jump on <a href="https://www.ine.es/widgets/nombApell/index.shtml" target="_blank">INE</a> to find out its potential roots. For example, finding the surname "Magraner" in my family and seeing that the surname wasn't too common or popular in Puerto Rico lead me to search the INE and find out the surname is mainly concentrated on the east of Spain and mainly on the islands of Mallorca. </div>
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And so I eagerly typed in the surname, only to discover... </div>
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There were<b> ZERO hits</b>! No one (currently) in Spain uses the surname Lamboy (or less than 5 in total), which means that this surname probably isn't Spanish! I'm not too surprised though, the surname doesn't really have a Spanish ring to it and the -mb- combination feels a bit weird. The surname however has another variation on the island - Laboy.<br />
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<b><u>What about Laboy?! </u></b></div>
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I decided to type in this surname variation and see what hits I would get... and again, <b>NOTHING</b>! With this one it's also not too surprising since it seems that Laboy probably stems from Lamboy, whether as an orthographic mistake or an intentional doing... I'm not sure. Another branch of my family has the surname "Laboy" also from the southern area of the island but I haven't been able to search that line further yet. </div>
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So this begs the question, who were the Lamboy? Where they one contacted branch of various arrivals? Where were they from? And how did they arrive in Puerto Rico?<br />
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Searching for the Lamboy in Humacao, I was able to start putting some information together to see how many branches there might be and if/how they interacted with one another. If there were a ton, then this name was more common than what I thought. If there were a few, then there was likely a familial relationship between them. It seems that my family was in Humacao since the town's inception and so they were some of the first settlers to arrive. Where from? Well let's see what we know!<br />
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Working our way backwards up the tree, Marcelina Ramos Lamboy (my 5th great-grandmother) was baptized in 1799 in Humacao and her godparents were Feliciano Lamboy and his daughter María Magdalena. We can assume that this Feliciano Lamboy is her maternal grandfather and María Magdalena her aunt (my 7th great-aunt). Later in 1801, María Magdalena Lamboy appears again at the godmother of Juana Ramos Lamboy, my 6th great-aunt. Lastly, she serves as <i>madrina</i> (godmother) of José Ramón Ramos Lamboy in 1805.<br />
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María Magdalena Lamboy would go on to marry Toribio Solís Rodríguez in May 1806, mentioning that her parents were Feliciano Lamboy <i>deceased</i> and María Rivera. That record confirms that María Magdalena was the aunt of all of these children in their baptism.<br />
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In Las Piedras we find that the family was here before settling into Humacao's records, finding a baptism in 1788 for Florencio and his <i>padrinos </i>were Juan Lamboy and Isabel de los Reyes.<br />
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Since Humacao has an index for most of their baptism records I was able to document all of the Lamboy children born within 1793-1825, similarly I was able to document deaths in the town as well. See below for the excel I created with green marking baptism records and red-orange marking death records.<br />
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Lamboy Baptisms in Humacao, Puerto Rico</h3>
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Lamboy Deaths in Humacao, Puerto Rico</h3>
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Many of the records point to Feliciano Lamboy and María Rabelo/Rivera though there are other couples as well and one specifically caught my eye: Vicente Lamboy and his wife Bernarda Rabelo. As you can see both have the surname combo of "Lamboy Rabelo" which makes me think that Vicente and Feliciano would be brothers while Bernarda and María were sisters, respectively. Though I have no evidence to tie them together yet I decided to explore this couple and see if they had crossed paths with my 7th great-grandparents. </div>
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To begin, I was able to find their marriage record in Humacao, Puerto Rico - they were married in July 1796. Notice the information about Bernarda that struck me as interesting!</div>
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<br />In the record above you can see that Vicente Lambo[i] (first time I saw Lamboy as "Lamboi", a typo I imagine) was a native of Guayama and the son of Marcos Lamboy and Baltazara Rodríguez while Bernarda was the daughter of María de Rivera. Did you catch what I caught?!</div>
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Here you can see that Bernarda appears as "Bernarda de Rivera" while in her children's baptism indexes above she appears as "Bernarda de Rabelo"... where have we seen this before? With my own 7th great-grandmother who sometimes as "María de Rivera" and "María de Rabelo"... leading me to think they are sisters! Equally, in various records Feliciano Lamboy and his daughter Lucrecia for example appear as natives of Guayama and here we see the same thing with Vicente Lamboy. </div>
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From there marriage I have been able to identify four children born in Humacao: </div>
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<li>Lorenza (1797) </li>
<li>Juan Evangelista (1800)</li>
<li>María del Carmen (1802)</li>
<li>Nicolasa (1804) </li>
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If we take a look at their godparents we get to learn a bit more about who the family was surrounded by: </div>
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<li>Padrinos de Lorenza: <b>Feliciano Lamboy</b> & María de Rivera</li>
<li>Padrinos de Juan Evangelista: Severino Maldonado & <b>María Magdalena Lamboy</b></li>
<li>Padrinos de María del Carmen: Miguel Berríos & Estefanía Cordovés/Córdoba</li>
<li>Padrinos de Nicolasa: <b>Juan Antonio Lamboy</b> & Paulina Rodríguez</li>
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From the four children listed above, three have "Lamboy" surnamed godparents and two right away we can identify - the first being Feliciano Lamboy (my 7th great-grandfather) and María Magdalena Lamboy (my 7th great-aunt). </div>
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<br />The third record points to a Juan Antonio Lamboy married to a Paulina Rodríguez as the godparents of Nicolasa. I have two Antonio Lamboy brothers for María Magdalena: the first an actual "Juan Antonio" born about 1783 and the second an "Antonio Lamboy" born in 1790. The former option makes the most sense as the latter would have only been 14 years old when Nicolasa was born in 1804.<div>
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<br />This Juan Antonio Lamboy (my 7th great-uncle) was born in 1783 was married in 1808 to a "Victoria" mulata libre, though no surname is mentioned their children would go to carry "Lamboy Nazario" or "Lamboy de Matos". Could he have been previously married before 1804 to Paulina Rodríguez? His marriage record doesn't mention him as a widower but we know records often make mistakes. I would have to find a marriage record prior to 1804 to prove him as the same man. <div>
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If this is the case, this would potentially mean that Feliciano Lamboy was a brother to Vicente Lamboy and María Magdalena and Juan Antonio would have been nieces and nephews appearing as godparents for their uncle Vicente. Not further evidence is discovered I can only speculate their relationship. </div>
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A few months ago a kind Puerto Rican genealogist uploaded a list of foreigners in Puerto Rico in the year 1816, though not an all encompassing list, it mentions various towns and people from other countries along with their profession. Below, we see a Vicente Lamboy listed as French and he seems to be a carpenter. Now, could this be the same Vicente Lamboy that appears in Humacao? Possible. </div>
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<br />Some records point to Vicente Lamboy as being from Ponce or Guayama, both towns in the south and though not directly neighboring towns to one another, it's important to note that town borders have changed over the years and "Ponce" and "Guayama" as we know them now are much smaller than in the past. This historic map shows us how much bigger the borders of these towns were. <div>
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<br />Though Humacao's territory lies on the east, it's possible that Vicente Lamboy moved around a bit and/or was officially registered as a foreigner in Ponce. A Google search in the "Books" section provides us another clue of a "Vicente Lamboy" present in Ponce again. <div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Actos de Cabildo de Ponce</b> [Google Books]</td></tr>
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<br />What's interesting is that the 1816 Register mentions "French" as the origin, which is interesting to consider because in no other records does Vicente Lamboy mention French. Of course, it is possible that these aren't the same men but considering late 1700s-early 1800s in the Ponce/Guayama area... how many Vicente Lamboys could there actually be? One truly doesn't know until you've exhausted all possible theories. <div>
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My current research now lies in Guayama, trying to find any clues or evidence of Vicente Lamboy or Feliciano Lamboy. Could they have been brothers or even cousins themselves? Though Ponce is still on the table, the church's records online aren't as far back as Guayama and the evidence, for now, overwhelming points more to Guayama versus Ponce. I have been able to find some Lamboy in Guayama but so far none that have matched what I have in my tree, nonetheless, it's good to see that the name is present in the town. </div>
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For now, French seems to be the only possible indication of a place of origin and though "specific" it's quite the opposite. I have seen French refer to Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Corsica, and finally France itself. So there really isn't a clear indication to where exactly he would have been from. Maybe another more detailed registration for Vicente would hold that information. The current 1815-1845 Registry of Foreign Residents of Puerto Rico online on FamilySearch has no entries for "Lamboy" or "Laboy". Hoping to discover more in the Guayama records!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>"L" Registrations for Foreign Residents, 1815-1845</b> [<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BHP-4HM?i=5&wc=MXMS-82S%3A212267501&cc=1919700" target="_blank">FamilySearch</a>]</td></tr>
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<br />Do you have Lamboy ancestors from Guayama/Ponce?</h3>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-64236618071928365272020-01-19T06:54:00.001-08:002020-01-19T06:54:34.554-08:00The Power of Names<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I wanted to share this record I found while searching the Toa Alta baptism records again. In all my years of researching, I have rarely come across an entry this detailed for a slave's baptism. Four years ago, I posted "<a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2016/08/whisperings-of-past.html" target="_blank">Whispers of the Past</a>" where certain entries for slaves in the Registry of 1872 contained the name of their parents. This is first time I am seeing a church record include so much information for a slave.<br />
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Below is a transcription of the document above.<br />
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<b><u>Transcription</u></b>: <i>En la Rivera de Toa Alta el día diez y ocho de mayo del año mil ochocientos y siete yo el beneficiado presbiterio Don Joseph María Martínez Cura Rector de esta parroquia de la Inmaculada Concepción de Nuestra Señora bauticé solemnemente puse oleo y crisma a Juan Luis negro adulto de diez y seis años de edad natural de Guinea en el lugar llamado Gabó, hijo de Ocai y de Gavena y a él lo llamaban Guinbi, esclavo de Doña Manuela Sandoval, fue su padrino el caballero regidor Don Juan Antonio Mexía a quien advertí el parentesco espiritual y sus obligaciones, de que doy fe. [firmado] Joseph María Martínez. </i><br />
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The main information to discern from above is that on the 18th of May 1807, Juan Luis, a black adult of 16 years of age, native of Guinea from the place of "Gabó" son of Ocai and Gavena who was previously known as Guinbi, slave of Manuela Sandoval, was baptized in the church of Toa Alta, Puerto Rico.<br />
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Interestingly enough, three other slaves belonging to Manuela Sandoval are also baptized in 1807 along with Juan Luis, none of them however have as much information to them as Juan Luis. The slaves are as follows: </div>
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<i>Juan Manuel, </i>esclavo de Manuela Sandoval, adulto, natural de Guinea</div>
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<i>Manuel Antonio,</i> esclavo de Manuela Sandoval, adulto, natural de Guinea </div>
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Besides stating that they were "natives of Guinea" no ages or parents' names are mentioned. These type of entries are more common amongst slaves and it's interesting that Juan Luis' entry has so much detail. </div>
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It is possible that Juan Luis was quick to learn Spanish and was allowed to share his information when baptized. I'm not sure if Manuela Sandoval was kind enough to let him share this information or if Joseph María Martínez asked him these questions himself when he was baptized. It is likely that Juan Luis was brought to Puerto Rico that year or maybe the previous year and was well aware of who he was, where he was from, and the names of his parents. Potentially even his age is maybe correct seeing as how he was the only slave of four to mention an age. This would mean that Guinbi, later known as Juan Luis, was likely born around the year 1791. </div>
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My guess would be that Guinbi was originally from the country today known as Gabon (Gabón in Spanish). From my understanding of the 17-18th century slave trade, most of the western area was known as "Guinea" and so it included various countries that today are: Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, and various islands and other countries as well. A map of the times gives us a better idea of the extension of this area known as the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Guinea" target="_blank">Gulf of Guinea</a>". </div>
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Unfortunately, this is the closest we are to knowing where Guinbi was from, no town is mentioned and the fact that his baptism includes the actual country and his parents' names is a feat in and of itself.<br />
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<b><u>Guinbi, son of Ocai and Gavena</u></b></div>
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Since we are dealing with Spanish orthography, we are not sure the correct or accurate spelling of their names. For example, the "u" is used after the "g-" in Spanish but this might not be the case in other languages, the "n" might be a "m" giving us something like <i>Ginbi</i> or <i>Gimbi</i>. His father's name might take a "k" instead of a "c" and the "a" might be a more "e" sound, something along the lines of <i>Okai</i> or <i>Okei</i>. Lastly, his mother's name could take "b" instead of a "v" since Spanish doesn't distinguish the two giving us <i>Gabena</i>. And who's to say these weren't short versions of longer names as well! </div>
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The three main indigenous languages in Gabon are Fang, Mbere, and Sira - all being Bantu languages. I would imagine their names fall under one of these languages but of course there is always the possibility it doesn't. An ethnographic and linguistic analysis of these names and cross referencing other sources of the time which help to distinguish African names in Spanish orthography would be helpful to discover their Gabonese names.<br />
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It would be interesting to follow Juan Luis' life and see what became of him in Puerto Rico. How long did he stay enslaved? Does he end up marrying and having children in Puerto Rico? Does he have descendants out there? If only these type of detailed records existed for all of our enslaved ancestors! </div>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-85371565820084178342020-01-02T11:04:00.002-08:002020-01-05T11:36:19.913-08:00Genealogical Resolutions for 2020!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With the new year comes change and excitement for what's to come! For me, not only do I focus on life goals and resolutions for the entering year but I also try to create some resolutions based around genealogy. I spend quite a bit of time (read: <i>a lot</i>) doing genealogy on the day to day, as it is a very important aspect of my life. Creating genealogical resolutions is something I started a few year back in <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/01/genealogical-resolutions-of-2018.html" target="_blank">2018</a> and followed through recently in 2019 (broken into <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/02/genealogical-goals-of-2019-part-i.html" target="_blank">Part I</a> and <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/02/genealogical-goals-of-2019-part-ii.html" target="_blank">Part II</a>).<br />
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At the end of the year I also reflect on those resolutions/goals and see where I am with them. Here are the reflections for the last two years:<br />
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<li><a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/reflecting-on-my-genealogical-goals-of.html" target="_blank">2018 Reflection</a></li>
<li><a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/12/reflecting-on-my-genealogical-goals-of.html" target="_blank">2019 Reflection</a></li>
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So I figured, why not keep up with this new habit and see what goals I'd like to set for 2020! Here are my genealogical resolutions for the year! </div>
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GENEALOGICAL RESOLUTIONS FOR 2020!</h2>
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<b>1. Take a Genealogy Course</b><br />
This is a carry-over resolution from last year and I'll bring it into 2020 because it's something I really want to do. Currently I've been looking at the Boston University genealogical courses, however if you know of one aimed at Latin American/Caribbean genealogy drop a comment! I'd love to take a course crafted for the type of genealogy I'm mainly focused on. Though I'm not sure I'll be able to take a course this year, I'll see if I can register myself in the fall for the winter or spring semester 2021, at the latest!<br />
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<b>2. Learn/Practice/Better my French</b><br />
I wanted to commence this resolution this year, but honestly as a teacher the year always get the better of me, like, how is it already January 2020? I'm not sure how much time I'll have this summer but hopefully I can set some time aside for doing some French work. I still have textbooks/books from high school and college, so I should definitely be able to do some self-studying for now, and of course there's Duolingo, music, and movies as well!<br />
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<b>3. Get more serious about my platform</b><br />
This is something I've been thinking about for some time now. I've been researching for about 15 years and writing on my blog ever since 2011, and I want to take it to a next step. Whether that's getting a (.com) for myself, branding myself better, or putting my name out there, I want to have a more steady publishing stream and reading crowd for my blog. The only drawback is that this isn't a full-time job, so sometimes genealogy or blogging will take the back-burner while I focus on my day job. We'll see what steps I take in this direction, even if they're baby steps, I hope it's some!<br />
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<b>4. Revisit my lines from Toa Alta, Puerto Rico</b><br />
It's been about 9-10 years since I've searched this branch in intensity. I remember vividly when I was in college, specifically the summer of 2009, FamilySearch had released some of Puerto Rico's church records online, and Toa Alta was one of the first towns to go up. I remember furiously searching the church books and finding as many ancestors and connections as possible; however, I was also naïve to some extent. I didn't pay attention much to godparents and the roles they played in documents and in the lives of my ancestors. So I want to go back and research more calmly these documents again and see what I can find. Especially since recently I <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-marriage-where-you-least-expect-it.html" target="_blank">made a breakthrough on my Rivera-Román line</a> in nearby Guaynabo and now I have some more generations and names to work with that might be found in Toa Alta.<br />
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<b>5. Catalog/Keep track searched FamilySearch Films</b><br />
This resolution is tied to my goal above. I find that sometimes I read, re-read, and sometimes even forget what films I've searched or which specific books and what ancestors I looked for in that specific time. I usually take notes on pieces of paper as I go, which then end up getting forgotten about or lost somewhere amongst other pages/loose papers. So my resolution is to create a digital database (probably Excel/Google Sheets) where I can keep track of the searches I've done. This would include writing down the film number, the church books, which pages I've seen, and what ancestors I've searched for. The further I go back in time with research the more I'm noticing that a lot of towns like Guayama, Coamo, San Juan etc. are getting repeated across multiple family lines, so to hopefully simplify this I want to track this more neatly and more accurately.<br />
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<b>6. Continue note-taking throughout my tree</b><br />
Similarly to resolution #5, this is something I want to better and is slightly different than the resolution above. I want to continue keeping track of certain clues, potential family members, and events in my ancestor's pages. Since I use Ancestry, I keep track via notes on certain events and place links in their profiles when something new comes up. To give you an example, this is my 6th great-grandfather Juan Francisco Correa's page below with links and notes of films I've searched and where I am on these films whilst searching. As you can see the notes get more complicated as the more I search and unfortunately there's a character limit to the boxes so I can't go on forever, but still, it's something that I find extremely helpful and I have posted about it as well in post about <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/at-complete-and-utter-standstill.html" target="_blank">being stuck with my Correa branch</a>. As you can see below, I work a lot between both languages (English and Spanish) since I use both fluently and daily.<br />
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<b>7. Cast a wider net with DNA cousin profiles</b><br />
DNA has been such a big help for finding and locating certain segments for certain ancestors (thanks <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-puerto-rican-look-at-dna-painter.html" target="_blank">DNAPainter</a>!) and even seeing where certain ancestry in my family comes from (I explore <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-puerto-rican-look-at-generational.html" target="_blank">African inheritance via various generations in my family</a> via this post). I've been very fortunate to test 2 parents, 2 grandparents, and 1 great-grandfather. In place of my paternal grandparents I've been able to test 1 sister for my paternal grandfather and 2 siblings for my paternal grandmother. My resolution (albeit an expensive one) is to try and add more diverse cousins amongst my tree to help with matching. I've already started this a bit <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/03/testing-testing.html" target="_blank">by recently adding</a> a 2nd great-uncle and a 1st cousin, 2x removed via my Magraner-Avilés branch to autosomal testing in 23andMe as well as one of their <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-puerto-rican-look-at-y-dna67.html" target="_blank">Y-DNA test to FTDNA</a>. My goal is to continue adding cousins sporadically from different parts of my tree to help fill in gaps of inherited DNA segments on my DNA Painter chromosomes but to also have closer generations to the "source" of certain autosomal ancestry or connections. My biggest lacking side is my paternal grandfather's side since I don't know too many cousins on that side of the tree. Hopefully some will test on their own as well and I'll be able to share and compare with them.<br />
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<b>8. Find a maternal mitochondrial descendant of <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/08/52-ancestors-33-eglantine-lautin-1821.html" target="_blank">Eglantine Lautin</a></b><br />
This one is no easy feat! My goal is to find a descendant that can trace back via their maternal line unbroken all the way back to my 5th great-grandmother Eglantine Lautin, an African-born slave later freed in 1848 who lived in Martinique. The reason being is because I'd like to test their maternal MtDNA (with permission, of course!) to see where in Africa (probably western is my guess) this line will take us. I'm not sure how exact this test can pinpoint either a tribe, region, or country, but I'd like to have an idea of her origins via the maternal haplogroup. In the past I had done some research into possible maternal descendants, but I think this is something I'll need to revisit as well; maybe even get the help from some cousins on this resolution!<br />
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<b>9. Try out/learn more Puerto Rican recipes </b><br />
This resolution isn't so much related directly (if not indirectly) to genealogy because it deals with inherited memory of culture. A few years back, I began to document in a small book recipes from my family, simple things such as how to make sofrito, how to cook pernil, and how to make arepas with bacalao. A few recipes I can do with my eyes closed like your simple rice, beans, etc. but there are more I want to perfect and others I want to learn. For example, I want to practice more making <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacala%C3%ADto" target="_blank">bacalaítos</a> more from scratch and learn how to make <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcapurria" target="_blank">alcapurrias</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteles" target="_blank">pasteles</a>. My goal is to learn the recipes and write them down from my own family members, whether that's my mother, grandmother, or even great-aunts, I want to learn how to make Puerto Rican dishes that are traditional and commonly eaten in my family. It's one thing to learn a recipe from a book and another to learn it first hand and in practice with a family member.<br />
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<b>10. Try to crack the mystery of the Orozco/Santana branch</b><br />
This is one of the mysteries that to this day still haunts me - the origin of the surname "Santana" in my Orozco branch. My maternal 3rd great-grandfather <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/02/52-ancestors-7-benito-orozco-1843-1923.html" target="_blank">Benito Orozco</a> was born out of wedlock but throughout his life and that of his children the surnames go back and forth between Orozco and Santana. To the point where some branches today stuck with the use of Santana while others use Orozco. Recently, I found his baptism record in Las Piedras which confirms he was born as an Orozco but there is no mention of a father or the surname Santana. Equally, the baptism of his son Antonio lists the godparents Blas Orozco and Hermenegilda Santana - coincidence? I need to dedicate some more time to the records of Las Piedras, Humacao, and Yabucoa to see if I can find more to crack the mystery of Benito and his mother Estefanía Orozco, who I have very little information about!<br />
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Here's to a productive genealogical 2020!</h2>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-58033500674390857512019-12-31T09:24:00.001-08:002020-01-05T19:07:32.198-08:00Reflecting on my Genealogical Goals of 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Time sure does fly! It feels like only yesterday I was setting up genealogical goals for 2019, and yet here I am December 31st, 2019 - ready to close out the year! Similarly to last year, I wanted to take some time to reflect on my goals for the year 2019 and see how far I've gotten. If you're interested in my past goals of 2018 - <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/reflecting-on-my-genealogical-goals-of.html" target="_blank">here's the link</a>! Also like last year, I will be answering each goal with "yes", "some" or "no" and explaining where I am with those goals.<br />
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<b>Genealogical Goals of 2019</b></h2>
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<b>1. <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-puerto-rican-look-at-y-dna67.html" target="_blank">Test a male descendant for Y-DNA Avilés</a> - Yes</b></div>
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On a recent trip to Puerto Rico in March, I was fortunate to have visited extended family in Lares, Puerto Rico - the town my Avilés ancestors lived in. Not only did I get a chance to see where my 2nd great-grandfather lived most of his life and some of his lands, but I was also able to meet two men who are direct descendants of my Avilés line. However, this line is said to be "Magraner" and not "Avilés" because my <a href="http://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/02/52-ancestors-6-jose-aviles-magraner.html" target="_blank">2nd great-grandfather</a> was born out-of-wedlock, said to be the son of <a href="http://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/05/52-ancestors-22-damia-magraner-morell.html" target="_blank">Damián Magraner Morell</a> from <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2015/03/travel-tuesday-soller-mallorca.html" target="_blank">Sóller, Mallorca</a>. Their haplogroup falls under one of the most common for European men so no close hits yet. Hoping more will come of these results soon! </div>
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<b>2. Add on my Rivera and <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-puerto-rican-look-at-y-dna111-correa.html" target="_blank">Correa</a> lines to FTDNA - Yes</b></div>
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I've recently posted this month about upgrading my Correa line and the current finds the line has... so far there might be some potential Sephardic Jewish origins in this line - hopefully more discoveries to come. I've also added my Rivera line but nothing interesting there so far, currently I have the possibility to upgrade to Big Y-700 for my line and currently considering it though I don't know what will come of it.<br />
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<b>3. Continue to learn about my Correa family - No</b><br />
Besides learning a bit more about my Correa family via DNA, I haven't been able to learn more about my family through records. I've <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/at-complete-and-utter-standstill.html" target="_blank">scoured the records in Coamo and San Juan</a> as well as nearby towns but nothing yet. I've also looked at the <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-strange-case-of-carcano-branch.html" target="_blank">Carcaño branch</a> and found some other people with the surname in towns near San Juan but I'm also stuck there as well. Hopefully this wall will come crashing down soon!<br />
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<b>4. Visit the <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/06/a-consanguineous-family-martinez-of.html" target="_blank">Archivo Diocesano</a> and <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-look-at-my-5th-great-grandmothers.html" target="_blank">AGPR</a> to attain testamentos and dispensas de matrimonio - Yes/Some</b><br />
Though I was able to find information about my family from both the Archivo Diocesano and the AGPR I placed it under "some" as well because I know that there is probably much, much more to research in both archival places. For example, I was able to find <i>dispensas </i>for cousins marrying in Maunabo that I had no idea about - all related to the Martínez branch of my family that came over from Guayama. This goal is also hard to accomplish within one year because time is limited while I'm in Puerto Rico and there are so many files to search as well.<br />
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<b>5. Begin to interview family members - No</b><br />
I feel like I'm going to beat myself up for not starting this sooner but I need to get on this! My goal is to record older family members talking about their lives and our family and create a digital bank of voices and information before these people are gone. I need to think this goal through next time I am in Puerto Rico!<br />
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<b>6. Push all my lines into the 1700s - Some</b><br />
The generation between my 4th and 5th great-grandparents' would be the branches that be able to reach the 1700s. So far on my paternal side there are many branches that have reached the 1700s, the ones currently stuck at my branches from Corozal and San Sebastián. On my maternal side, my Patillas, Morovis, Vega Baja, and San Sebastián sides of the family haven't been explored into the 1700s - 3/4 of these towns don't have church records online which halts me from exploring deeper into their lineage. I heard Corozal, Morovis, and Vega Baja are becoming available in Puerto Rico via <i>La Sociedad Genealógica de Puerto Rico</i> while San Sebastián hasn't allowed any organization to digitalize their records.<br />
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<b>7. Continue reading books about genealogy - Yes</b><br />
This year I've been fortunate to have read a lot of books but out of the books I've read so far, not many have to do with genealogy. So far I have read: <i>"The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssy of Hans Jonathan" by: Gísli Pálsson</i>, a book about a mulatto man from St. Croix who ends up in Iceland via Denmark (worth the read!), <i>"She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity" by: Carl Zimmer,</i> this book was a bit more intense because it dealt a lot with the science of DNA but it was definitely an interesting read. I also read <i>"1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus" by: Charles C. Mann</i>, definitely was an eye-opening book to what life was like in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans, and <i>"Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love" by: Dani Shapiro</i>, which was a very interesting book about a woman's journey of who her biological father is post-DNA testing. So out of 19 books read so far 4 were related somehow to genealogy which isn't too bad. I also read <i>"The Coming" by: Daniel Black</i> and <i>"My 15 Grandmothers" by: Genie Milgrom</i> but the former was more of a historical fiction narrative of a slave's journey through the Middle Passage while the latter was about researching your Sephardic ancestors and I wasn't able to pull too much information for myself, if I count these books this would be 6 books about genealogy!<br />
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<b>8. Take a genealogy course - No</b><br />
For monetary reasons, I decided to hold back on this goal this year but I'm hoping sometime next year or even 2021 to register myself and take a genealogical course. Though so far the courses I've found are not really geared to the Caribbean/Latin America, I figured it's better to start building myself a genealogical resumé which includes a variety of courses. This will give me some more "seriousness" as I continue to make a name for myself as a genealogist.<br />
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<b>9. <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/04/chromosome-7-african-american-connection.html" target="_blank">Get savvier with the use of DNA results</a> - Yes/Some</b><br />
With the use of DNAPainter I have been able to identify pieces of DNA that I share with African Americans with no known connection to Puerto Rico and recently thanks to MyHeritage and AncestryDNA I was able to find <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/10/genetic-connections-to-guadeloupe.html" target="_blank">genetic connections to Guadeloupe</a>. I'm hoping that this goal extends itself into the next year and I can find out more about my connection to Guadeloupe. I also say "some" because I would like to learn more about Y-DNA testing and how to read more into my results. For example, I recently upgraded my Correa Y-DNA to Big-Y700 and I would like to be able to read more into the results myself.<br />
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<b>10. Build stories around my factual evidence - No</b><br />
Though I set up this goal, I'm not sure exactly how to go about it. Though Ancestry builds a "LifeStory" for your ancestors' lives, it doesn't necessarily touch upon facts based on your country, for me this would be facts from Puerto Rico. For example, one of my ancestor's story shows a fact about the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence which doesn't really have to with his life in Puerto Rico, especially since this time it was a part of the Spanish crown. I need to figure out a way to build facts about my ancestors - maybe creating some sort of timeline with important Puerto Rican facts based around towns and the island's history and seeing where my ancestors fall within that timeline.<br />
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This year also marked for me my <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/07/my-200th-post-8-years-of-blogging-15.html" target="_blank">200th blog post</a>, as well as 8 years of blogging and 15 years of genealogy which is definitely a lot of time dedicated to this obsessive hobby! In a few days I hope to create new goals for 2020 and explain why I want to follow this goals! Stay tuned and Happy New Year! </div>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-67249623916040048472019-12-01T19:58:00.001-08:002019-12-01T19:58:38.208-08:00A Puerto Rican Look at: Y-DNA111 (Correa)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Like my <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-puerto-rican-look-at-y-dna67.html" target="_blank">Avilés/Magraner</a> line, I tested my Correa Y-DNA line while I was in Puerto Rico, this time with my maternal grandfather. Though I originally tested this line at Y-DNA67, I have upgraded the line to Y-DNA111 on FTDNA and with the recent Thanksgiving sales I have finally upgraded the line to Big-Y 700. The results will take a while to upload, especially with what I can only imagine are a bunch of people taking advantage of the sale. So I figured I would write about what I know at this level and see what else comes from the upgrade.<br />
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<b><u>CORREA - SURNAME ORIGINS </u></b><br />
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Though I have posted about the Correa surname before (post <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/at-complete-and-utter-standstill.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/03/52-ancestors-11-jose-de-leon-correa.html" target="_blank">here</a>). I'd figure I cover this quickly again to tie it into the genetic understanding of this line. The Correa surname comes to me via my mother and her father, and from there runs via the paternal line up to the 1700s. This is what the paper trail has shown me at least, remember that there is always the possibility of a NPE (<a href="https://isogg.org/wiki/Non-paternity_event" target="_blank">Non-Paternity Event</a>) which are usually not traced on paper. Below you can see me, Luis, at the bottom and my line all the way until my 6th great-grandfather Juan Francisco Correa (I have blurred of people who are still alive).<br />
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In an ideal genealogical world, this would mean that my Correa cousins and any other male Correa tied to this line would all descend genetically via their Y-DNA from this same man. Matching other Correa men would help attest to this, but unfortunately so far there haven't been other men in my family or relatives that I know who have tested. Y-DNA testing (and rightfully so due to its cost) is something more serious geneticists/genealogists use to trace lines that either ran dry via paper-trail, experienced traumatic events such as slavery, the holocaust, wars that disconnected them from information, and/or was adopted and not sure of their origins. I personally have not tested all of my Y-DNA possible lines, especially since I would have to find distant males cousins to test for lines that have "daughtered out". So far, I have tested my own Rivera line (since I wanted to know more about it since it's a common surname), my maternal Avilés line (said to be tied to Mallorca via a NPE), the Charles line (arrived to Puerto Rico from Guadeloupe and was previously enslaved), and my Correa line (surname interest/since the paper trail ran out). <br />
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When I mean surname interest, I have always been interested in this name for two reasons. 1) It's not that common of a surname in Puerto Rico, though there is always the mention of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_de_los_Reyes_Correa" target="_blank">Capitán Antonio de los Reyes Correa</a> it's not a surname I often hear when I meet other Puerto Ricans, and 2) I have always heard that the surname is tied to Sephardic Jewish origins in Spain. </div>
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The surname for example appears in Amsterdam via Isabel (Rebecca) Correa, a famous Dutch Sephardic poetess who was born in Portugal.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isabel (Rebecca) de Correa [<a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/isabel-rebecca-de-correa" target="_blank">Jewish Virtual Library</a>]</td></tr>
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It has also appeared amongst those tried for "judaizantes" ("Judaizers") during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. A quick search of Correa + Inquisición gave me various hits. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Tribunal de la Inquisición en Llerena</b> [<a href="http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/description/6178016" target="_blank">PARES</a>]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Tribunal de la Inquisición en Llerena</b> [<a href="http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/description/6277938" target="_blank">PARES</a>]</span></td></tr>
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Does this mean that my own Correa family were Jewish as well? Not necessarily but the genetic information is interesting to add. Let's see what my grandfather's genes say about this line!<br />
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When I got the autosomal and haplogroup results for grandfather on 23andme, I was very interested since it seems that his haplogroup isn't that common amongst men in their database/that have tested. So I wanted to see what it would be like in FTDNA.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>FTDNA Landing Page</b> [FTDNA/Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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My grandfather's haplogroup is current listed as "J-Z18271", this name is expected to change once I get my Big-Y700 results - expected to arrive sometime in February. Below you can see where this specific SNP (Z18271) has been found in Europe. This specific branch can be found in various parts of the world, but it's interesting to note that it's mainly found amongst Eastern European countries. This is a very different result than expecting to find many "genetic cousins" scattered amongst the Iberian Peninsula and other parts of western Europe.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>SNP MAP</b> [FTDNA/Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<b><u>CORREA - HAPLOGROUP ASSIGNMENT</u></b><br />
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The main haplogroup my grandfather belongs to is "J" which you can see how it got into Europe below. Further below is an image of my specific haplogroup for my grandfather as well, currently at Y-DNA111.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Migration Map</b> [FTDNA]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Correa Haplogroup</b> [FTDNA/Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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This group has its origins mainly in the Middle East amongst the Arab and Jewish populations. This was interesting to me taking into consideration the Sephardic Jewish theory of this surname. Remember that genetics predate current religious, political, geographic divides. It is possible that somehow my Correa family was a part of the Arab/<i>Morsico</i> or Jewish/<i>Sefardí</i> population in Spanish which was later pushed out during the <i>reconquista</i>. It made it's way into Puerto Rico where it has been present for the last 300 years.<br />
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Some research places the haplogroup amongst the "Kohanim" or Cohen branch of Jews, which is the "priest" class. If this is the case for my family, this would obviously be very far back and probably not in recent times, though it would be very interesting nonetheless! My family has likely been Christian/Catholic for at least the last 300 years while in Puerto Rico. Since I haven't been able to trace them off the island yet, I am not sure what their history and religious practices were before arriving to Puerto Rico.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">J-Z18271 Branch [<a href="http://genogenea.com/J-M267/tree" target="_blank">GenoGenea</a>]</td></tr>
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<b><u>GENETIC MATCHES</u></b><br />
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Currently, I have one match from the entire database of FTDNA for my Correa Y-DNA111 test, and it's a genetic cousin who shares another line with me, so it was interesting seeing him match me on the Y-DNA level on another completely different line as well. As you can see the surname for his earliest ancestor is not "Correa", if not "Santiago". So somewhere along our lines there was a NPE, we're not sure who's line it comes from but we're thinking it might be his. Currently, this cousin is tested at Y-DNA37 so their haplogroup isn't as specific as mine. The genetic distance is 3 meaning that our relationship is further back in generations, but I'm not sure if this distance "closes" once they upgrade their Y-DNA test.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Y-DNA Match</b> [FTDNA/Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<u><b>CONCLUSIONS</b></u></div>
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I'm hoping that upgrading the test will give some more insight into whether it's more likely to be Arab or Jewish in origin. I have been in contact with some of the administrators of the FTDNA project I am a part of via my results in the J haplogroup. They are also interested to see what comes out of this result since I don't match many other people. This is very fascinating for me and definitely something I am learning along the way with. I'm not super well-versed in Y-DNA analysis so learning via my multiple accounts has been pretty helpful! Hoping my results come faster than I expect!</div>
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ARE YOU A CORREA FROM PUERTO RICO? </h2>
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HAVE YOU TAKEN A Y-DNA TEST? </h2>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-10885740100709155872019-11-27T16:17:00.003-08:002019-11-27T17:42:00.442-08:00The Strange Case of the Carcaño Branch<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
About 7 years ago, I had discovered the names of my 5th great-grandparents and those of their parents in their marriage record in the year 1819. <b>José de León Correa Carcaño</b>, son of Juan Francisco Correa and María Eugenia Carcaño, said to be natives of San Juan and <b>María de la Cruz Rodríguez</b> <b>Ruiz</b>, daughter of Sebastián Rodríguez and María de Gracia Ruiz, natives of Coamo.<br />
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Out of these four lines - Correa, Carcaño, Rodríguez, and Ruiz, I have only been able to discover more information about only a few. Here are some links to previous posts on my blog about these lines.<br />
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<a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/at-complete-and-utter-standstill.html" target="_blank">Correa</a>- Summarizing my research about my family, though I am currently stuck.<br />
<a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/08/52-ancestors-27-sebastian-rodriguez.html" target="_blank">Rodríguez</a>- Writing about my 6th Great-Grandfather during the <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/p/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-challenge.html" target="_blank">52 Ancestor Challenge</a>.<br />
<a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/02/manuel-ruiz-pardo-slave-in-1700s.html" target="_blank">Manuel Ruiz</a>- Discovering that my 7th Great-Grandfather was a pardo slave in Coamo.<br />
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The Carcaño line (as well as the Correa line) has been extremely difficult to trace. So I wanted to focus a bit on what I know on the Carcaño and some theories in hopes of being able to discover more about my 6th great-grandmother.<br />
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<b><u>CARCAÑO AS A SURNAME</u></b><br />
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Besides seeing the surname Carcaño in the marriage record of my 5th great-grandparents, it has not been a surname I often see in my genealogical searches. So first, I wanted to research the surname itself outside of Puerto Rico. I wanted to know how popular the surname might be in Spain. I have mentioned the use of the INE before (<a href="https://www.ine.es/widgets/nombApell/index.shtml" target="_blank">Intituto Nacional Estadística</a>) and it is one of the main ways I check how or where a surname could have arrived to Puerto Rico from within Spain. Searching "Carcaño" didn't give me many hits, as you can see below the surname is used only by 100+ people and limited to a few regions in Spain. You can see that Cádiz and Alicante seem to be the "highest" concentration of Carcaño surnamed people in Spain and it makes a few appearances in Madrid and Barcelona. Since the surname is so limited, I would imagine these separate family branches are tied to each whether distantly or more closely related.<br />
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<i>The version "Carcano" shows </i><i>only </i><i>about 20 people in Madrid using this variation, by the way! </i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Carcaño Surname Map</b> [INE]</td></tr>
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<b><u>CARCAÑO... ¿GENOVÉS?</u></b><br />
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My searching on the internet brought me to an <a href="https://www.diarioinformacion.com/vega-baja/2008/09/06/familia-carcano-reune-150-miembros/794521.html" target="_blank">article from Torrevieja</a> that mentions a family reunion of the Carcaño branch bringing together about 150 family members. It also states that the family came to Spain from Genova, Italy around 1810 probably fleeing the siege of Napoleon, the first registered Carcaño in Torrevieja occurred in 1820.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Carcaño Family Reunion </b>[<a href="https://www.diarioinformacion.com/vega-baja/2008/09/06/familia-carcano-reune-150-miembros/794521.html" target="_blank">DiarioInformación</a>]</td></tr>
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This would lead me to believe that the Carcaño family entered through Alicante (the region where Torrevieja is located) and from there the family spread to other regions. Could this mean that the surname has its origins in Italian rather than Spanish? It would explain why it isn't as commonly found in Spain and why it's harder to find in Puerto Rico as well.<br />
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<b><u>CARCAÑOS IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO</u></b><br />
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My search for María Eugenia Carcaño took me to the San Juan church records in the early 1700s. So far, I have yet to find a marriage record for María Eugenia Carcaño and her husband Juan Francisco Correa, but I did run into another Carcaño branch which was interesting to find. Since I have no idea how, if at all, this branch is tied to me I decided to build out a tree and see what I could find on them. Even if they aren't related to me I hope that my research benefits another Carcaño family.<br />
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The first Carcaño branch I found was a marriage record for a Manuela Carcaño to a Juan Ferregut in the San Juan church records in the year 1777. Below you can see a snippet of the wedding record, stating that Juan Ferregut was from Pa[r]ma (Palma), Mallorca, the legitimate son of Guillermo Ferregut and Catalina Villa and Manuela Carcaño, a resident of this city [San Juan], the daughter of Josef Carcaño and Manuela Polanco, she deceased.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Manuela Carcaño, San Juan, Marriage, </b><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">1777</b> [FamilySearch]</td></tr>
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Since José de León Correa was said to have been born in the 1790s in San Juan, I figured that Manuela could easily be a sister to María Eugenia, as their ages were probably in the same ballpark range. So I wanted to discover more about José Carcaño and Manuela Polanco, who were they and could they have been my 7th great-grandparents? </div>
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I was able to find that Manuela was baptized as <i>Manuela de los Reyes</i>, daughter of José Carcaño and Manuela Polanco, <i>parda </i>in January 1764. Manuela was baptized in the book of <i>blancos</i> but as you can see her mother was listed as <i>parda</i>. This was important to note for me because my María Eugenia Carcaño is listed with her husband to be <i>pardos libres</i> in the records of Coamo. This type of evidence becomes important when trying to track family members across various towns and different race books of church baptisms and marriages. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Manuela Carcaño, San Juan, </b><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">Baptism, </b><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">1764</b> [FamilySearch]</td></tr>
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Something extremely odd here is the math! If Manuela would have been born in 1764 and married in 1777, this would mean that she was only 13 years old when she married! Her marriage record does not mention her actual age or her needing permission from her father to get married. I have also yet to find another baptism for another Manuela Carcaño, so it is possible that the age was fudged either on the baptism or marriage. I'm not sure how common it was for girls to marry this young in the 1700s, I do however have a case of one of my 2nd great-grandmothers marrying at the age of 15 (based off her baptism and marriage records) in 1906, so it's very possible that was common amongst certain families for status reasons.<br />
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Having Manuela's baptism in 1764 gave me a starting point to check for marriage records for José Carcaño and Manuela Polanco... ultimately anytime before that year. Lucky for me, they would have married a year before that in 1763 in San Juan! </div>
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José Carcaño was said to be a native of Genova, from the Spanish kingdom, the son of De[c]iderio and Francisca Carcaño, Manuela Polanco was a native of this city [San Juan] and the daughter of Alonso Polanco and María del Rosario, she was deceased. It's interesting to see that José Carcaño is also tied to the community of Carcaños in Genova! It seems that for a while the Republic of Genoa aligned itself with the Spanish Empire to help in the decline it was experiencing, which is probably why in Puerto Rico it was mentioned as a part of the Spanish Kingdom.<br />
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José's wife, Manuela Polanco would pass away in May 1768 in San Juan and left behind a will. Before passing she had given birth to a girl named Isidora that same month who unfortunately passed two months later in July 1768. I'm not sure if that will would still be available in San Juan, if so, it might contain a clue to who were Manuela's children and whether a María Eugenia was one of them. </div>
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José would go on to remarry in Bayamón in 1776 to a María del Carmen García Manzano. It is also possible that María Eugenia could have been one of the first daughters to this couple, except this is where the trail runs cold. </div>
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While on a visit to San Juan last March I visited the Archivo Diocesano in San Juan to look for marriage dispensations. In talking to Elyse who runs the archivo, I asked about other documents in San Juan and the surrounding area for the 1700s. She showed me a couple of indexed books of San Juan and Río Piedras, in them I searched for any people surnamed Correa or Carcaño. </div>
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In one of the entries, I came across a <i>Nicolás Carcaño, illegitimate son of <b>Eugenia Carcaño</b>. </i>I was surprised to see the name, I jotted it down and when I got home I did some more searching. Could this be my 6th great-grandmother?!</div>
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Nicolás Carcaño, native son of Eugenia married in October 1790 in Río Piedras to a María Joaquina, native daughter of María Tomasa. It lists them as <i>morenos libres</i> in the record, which again is interesting to note, as you saw above for Manuela Carcaño, she was baptized in the white books but had a <i>parda</i> mother. </div>
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Nicolás would have been born in the 1770s, though a bit older than José de León, this wouldn't be completely impossible for him to be a brother. The interesting thing here though is that no father is listed for Nicolás meaning he would have been a "Carcaño" and not a "Correa Carcaño". Still, I figured it was worth an investigation.<br />
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Searching for death records of Eugenia Carcaño in Río Piedras I came across various death records for Nicolás' children: Lucas (1798), Gabriela (1798), Cipriana (1799), and María (1800), all passing away as <i>párvulos</i> (infants) - all children born shortly after their marriage but unfortunately who didn't live long into adulthood. Continuing my search higher in the years, I was able to find a death record for an Eugenia Carcaño. </div>
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Here you can see a Eugenia Carcaño, resident of Río Piedras, married to "José", black, slave of José María Ruiz, she died in April of 1803. Though I was hopeful at first, a few things don't match with my 6th great-grandmother. The husband's name for example was different and neither Juan Francisco Correa or Eugenia Carcaño showed up as enslaved or <i>moreno libre</i> in Coamo. Could she have remarried? Possible. Could she have been <i>moreno libre </i>in Río Piedras and her son listed as <i>pardo libre</i> in Coamo. Also possible.<br />
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But there is another piece of evidence that might help us explain why she might not be <b>my</b> Eugenia Carcaño. When José de León Correa, her son, marries in 1809, it does not list her as "deceased". Other marriage records in that year show spouse's parents as <i>difunto/a </i>but Eugenia and Juan Francisco are not listed as that. Which would lead us to believe that she was still alive past 1803. Could this be an error? Possibly. But I'm hoping that José de León knew the status of the life of his parents' when he married and thus giving us hope that Eugenia Carcaño is still out there in the records... yet to be discovered. </div>
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My final search was in Loíza, Puerto Rico, and there I was able to find a few more Carcaños. None of them matched the names I have in Coamo but it was interesting to find the surname there and see where they were placed in the different racial categories. Here are some examples below: </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>José Carcaño, moreno libro, 1793</b> [FamilySearch]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>First Twin of José Carcaño, Moreno Libre, 1795</b> [FamilySearch]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Felipa Carcaño, Parda Libre, 1795</b> [FamilySearch]</td></tr>
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Honestly, I'm not sure that I have any, the only thing I have found is that in Puerto Rico there existed white, pardo, and moreno Carcaños across San Juan, Río Piedras, and Loíza. One branch came from Italy and might have ties to a current branch living in Torrevieja, Alicante, Spain with similar roots in Genova. A death record in 1803 for an Eugenia Carcaño was found in Río Piedras, but based off José de León's marriage record she doesn't match since my 6th great-grandmother wasn't said to be deceased when he married in 1809. </div>
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I'm not sure, however, if there was ever a Carcaño slave owner. All the Carcaños I seem to find are all <i>moreno libre/pardo libre</i> and I have yet to find an <i>esclavo de ______ Carcaño. </i>I am not sure what this says about the white Carcaños as well. But at some point the <i>morenos libres</i> would have been freed from a white Carcaño owner or chose that surname (for whatever reason). </div>
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I am hopeful that one day I'll be able to fully unravel this Carcaño mystery. Luckily for me, the surname is still pretty rare, meaning that when I come across it my eyes catch it automatically, unlike coming across more common surnames such as Martínez, Rivera, etc. I'll have to extend my search to other towns nearby and continue to track down the Carcaño branch located in San Juan and see where that trail ends. The question also still begs: where the heck is my Correa branch as well?!</div>
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Are you a Carcaño from Puerto Rico? </h2>
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Any ties to Juan Francisco Correa & María Eugenia Carcaño? </h2>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-24222462547757761092019-10-09T15:16:00.001-07:002019-10-10T08:34:08.178-07:00Genetic Connections to Guadeloupe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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DNA testing is something I initiated about 10 years ago, and I was fortunate to have stumbled upon it when I did. With testing, I have been able to make great discoveries - some of them thanks to the DNA itself and others to the people I have met and interacted with along the way. If you have been following my blog (Thank you & ¡Gracias!), then you know a few years back (8 actually to be exact!) I begun to unravel a previously unknown discovery in my family about a connection to the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe via my maternal grandfather's side of the family. At the time I knew very little about this branch but thanks to digging through documents and connecting with French Caribbean genealogists throughout these recent years, I was able to discover much more about this side of my family.<br />
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My research up until now has revealed two distinct sides in my 3rd great-grandmother's family, one side (her father's) comes from Guadeloupe while the other (her mother's) comes from Martinique. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>María Paulina Charles Lautin - 3rd Great-grandmother</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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Unfortunately, there is not much information past María Paulina's grandparents. It seems that on the Jean-Charles side, the family might have been mixed-creole seeing as how her parents were enslaved themselves, yet a Y-DNA test points to European origins for the "Charles" line. It is important to note that this side of the family received their freedom from slavery before 1848, unlike most of the enslaved peoples did in the French owned Caribbean islands at the time, this allowed María Paulina's paternal Guadeloupean grandparents a chance to marry before they passed away. Meanwhile, the "Lautin" side is probably all African in origin. Julienne was born a slave (noted as "<i>negresse</i>" on her birth certificate in 1844) and Eglantine herself was brought over from Africa. Unfortunately, we have no idea who the father of Julienne was. We only have a potential clue - in Puerto Rico the father's surname was written down as "Pedro" and searching the records in Martinique has allowed me to identify a family with the surname "Pitroo" who worked on the slave plantation as the Lautin clan; there might be a possible connection to that family and only time and DNA will tell.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Charles-Lautin Family Tree </b>[Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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One of my genetic goals was to potentially one day find a cousin who descends via their maternal line all the way down to Eglantine Lautin, this would allow for a MtDNA test to potentially identify a region in Africa she would have originally been from. I have been able to find a genetic cousin via AncestryDNA but they haven't logged into their account for over a year so I haven't heard back from them. The question now became were there segments in my DNA linking me back to potential cousins in Guadeloupe and Martinique? If not, would my grandfather's DNA contain segments? Luckily I have been able to test myself and my maternal grandfather on 23andMe and AncestryDNA along with our Y-DNA line on FtDNA. Thanks to the suggestion of David (a French Caribbean genealogist), I migrated my grandfather's DNA to MyHeritage - which seems to be more popular in France. </div>
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After breaking up my DNA in DNA Painter into segmented colors of who gave me what, you can clearly see all the yellow segments below belonging to my grandfather. </div>
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This DNA in turn comes from his parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc. meaning that though those segments cover much of my maternal DNA, I would have inherited genetic material from one out of eight 2nd great-grandparents on that side of the family with ties to Martinique and Guadeloupe. And since it is far back, the odds of me receiving many segments is low as well, but having my grandfather tested means there are more odds of him having more segments as well. Recently in my DNA, I have been able to identify two matches on AncestryDNA and one match on MyHeritage with clear connections to the island of Guadeloupe. </div>
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My first match shares DNA with my grandfather but not myself or my mother. Though they share 3 segments across 49cm it's possible that my grandfather was the last generation to inherit these segments. In their "shared matches" list they only share three matches, which is <b>very </b>uncommon for Puerto Rican matches to share such low and limited cousins, so I can probably rule out the fact that this cousin as remotely Puerto Rican. This cousin does however have on their shared matches a cousin who is Puerto Rican but connected to my grandfather via his Correa family which is tied to Martinique and Guadeloupe via María Paulina Charles. The first match I have no idea how they are connected and the third match is a cousin with is mixed Guadeloupean and I think African American. Since AncestryDNA does not share where they match on their DNA, I have no idea how to "chart" this for my grandfather on DNA Painter. The cousin I think is not on Gedmatch either, and I have reached out but no return message so far. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Guadeloupean Cousin</b> [Personal AncestryDNA]</td></tr>
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This 2nd cousin shares DNA across 3 segments as well with my grandfather but this time at 38cm, my guess is that these 3 segments are probably the exact same ones as the first cousin from above. However with this cousin, my mother and myself are said to share DNA with as well. Unfortunately, I have no way of knowing where on my DNA these segments are located.<br />
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This was my grandfather's first official Guadeloupean cousin to first appear for him which was very exciting, since it helped to solidify all the research I had done in the past 8 years. As you can see below I was able to find this cousin by filtering his DNA matches by geographic origins and selecting "France". The segment is listed as only one shared segment but also at 38.3cm like one of my grandfather's AncestryDNA matches. You can also see that based on our trees we both have "Guadeloupe" as an ancestral place for our families based on the trees we have built. I have gotten a chance to chat with this cousin and our families both have ancestry from Les Saintes, which are a set of smaller islands belonging to Guadeloupe! It is possible that there are more matches amongst my grandfather's DNA matches who have a connection somehow to Guadeloupe but so far this is the only one I have been able to find on MyHeritage. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Guadeloupean Cousin</b> [Personal MyHeritage]</td></tr>
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Luckily, on MyHeritage you can see where in your DNA you share the segments. For my grandfather and this match, the segment is located on chromosome 11. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Shared Guadeloupean DNA</b> [Personal MyHeritage]</td></tr>
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My own personal chromosome 11 is inherited mainly in the same spot from my grandfather as the Guadeloupean match comes from but doesn't mean that I would necessarily share that same piece of DNA with that cousin, in order to better know I would probably have to transfer my own DNA into MyHeritage and see if I match this cousin as well.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>My Chromosome 11 divided into Grandparent Inheritance</b> [DNA Painter]</td></tr>
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Interestingly enough, the region my grandfather shares with this cousin on Chromosome 11 is European on one side and African on the other and specifically the DNA on that side is registered as Nigerian. In a previous post, I took a look at <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-puerto-rican-look-at-generational.html" target="_blank">inherited African DNA</a> and I analyzed a bit the fact that Nigerian DNA was much higher on my grandfather's side of the family and potentially connected to María Paulina Lautin. If I had to put some money on it, I wouldn't be surprised if their shared DNA was on the Nigerian side via a slave(s) brought over to Guadeloupe. I'll have to read up on the African influx of slaves to Guadeloupe and see if any studies have been completed on which regions these slaves specifically hailed from.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>My grandfather's Chromosome 11 </b>[Personal 23andme]</td></tr>
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I'm not sure why I originally expected genetic connections from Martinique over Guadeloupe. Maybe because I discovered the former side first versus the latter, I expected that my genetic connections would happen in the same order. But taking a closer look it kind of makes sense why I might not have Martinican connections right away, we know that Eglantine was from Africa and Julienne's father probably was as well. Out of Eglantine's five children (one of them being my own 4th great-grandmother), only three (two siblings) went on to have children and who knows if they were were full or half siblings (I'm guessing half over full). </div>
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Nonetheless, this is exciting stuff! The next step would be to try and figure out how we're all related! It doesn't seem like we have any surnames overlapping with each other, but at the same time, knowing that my 5th great-grandparents from Guadeloupe were slaves means that they didn't carry surnames in the traditional sense we have come to know. My 5th great-grandmother only went by "Marie Lucie" and used no surname on documents while my 5th great-grandfather was known as "Jean-Charles Chaleau" and the children passed on both "Chaleau" and "Jean-Charles" as surnames depending on the time period. </div>
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Recently, a document was discovered on Terre-de-Bas (merci beaucoup David!) which mentions Jean-Charles as an uncle in a death record in the year 1853, which would mean he would be related to one her parents. As you can see, there is still much to be discovered and I'm hoping that our DNA will reveal more about our connections. This is also why it is important to explore various companies of DNA and search within your matches! </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I also can't wait to visit Guadeloupe one day!</b></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Terre de Bas, Guadeloupe</b> [<a href="http://www.guadeloupe-leguide.fr/terre-de-bas.html" target="_blank">Guadeloupe Le Guide</a>]</td></tr>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-59018526551389186972019-09-30T14:54:00.002-07:002019-11-29T13:22:22.267-08:00How One Death Record Got It Wrong<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I wanted to focus this post on an aspect of genealogy I think most newbies tend to oversee, whether due to excitement or blindly trusting what we first see - mistakes on records. When you first start out in genealogy, you tend to take all information on records as genealogical gold. But what happens when a record is wrong? More often than not this is likely to occur (in certain types of documents over others) and there are probably more instances of this happening than we actually know of. These types of 'clerical mistakes', whether on purpose or mistake, are becoming easier to break down with the advent of DNA testing. Today, I wanted to focus on two records, a civil death record and a church death record, essentially the same, but with very different information on them and how one created a brick wall for me while the other broke it down.<br />
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When I first began my genealogy 15 years ago, one of the easiest sides to research was my maternal grandmother's side of the family from Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. This side was the easiest since I am fortunate enough to have my maternal grandmother still alive. I could ask her questions about her parents, grandparents, cousins, etc. until the genealogical well of information ran dry. Since my grandmother was born in Yabucoa but raised in San Juan, she had limited knowledge past her great grandmother "Pancha", <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/12/52-ancestors-46-francisca-orozco.html" target="_blank">Francisca Orozco Santiago</a>, who passed away two years before my grandmother was born. Fortunately for me, the Puerto Rican Civil Registry records were available on FamilySearch and I was able to pick up on where my grandmother's information left off.<br />
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Working my way backwards from my 2nd great-grandmother, I began searching in the Yabucoa civil records. From what I have on my tree, it seems that back in 2011 I uploaded under Francisca's gallery the civil registry birth record for Francisca, which mentions her maternal grandparents as Manuel de Santiago, married, a farm worker, alive, and living in Calabazas, Yabucoa and Juana Balbina Burgos, also alive and residing in Calabazas - these were my 4th great-grandparents. Years later, the Puerto Rican Civil Registry would become available on Ancestry so I could now merge the records to my family members' profiles.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Manuel de Santiago & Juana Balbina Burgos (4th Great-grandparents) </b>[Ancestry]</td></tr>
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My grandmother had never known the names of her 2nd great-grandparents and excitedly wrote them down during our phone conversation years back, I told her I'd keep working on the tree to see what else I could find. In the same year of 2011, two months after uploading Francisca Orozco's birth record, I uploaded to my tree Manuel de Santiago's civil death record. This death record, left a lot to be desired and in the next 7 years to come I'd be stuck with no solids leads.<br />
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What's marked in green above was confirmed information I knew, the name of my 4th great-grandfather was Manuel de Santiago, he was living in Calabazas where he passed in 1888 (our extended family lived/lives in this part of Yabucoa to this day), he was married to Juana Burgos and had a daughter (my 3rd great-grandmother) named <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/08/52-ancestors-31-dolores-santiago-burgos.html" target="_blank">Dolores Santiago Burgos</a>. On this record it states that he was the illegitimate son of a Petrona de Santiago who was already deceased. The person who came forward to make Manuel's death known was a Juan Gómez, who according to this record was in charge of the family. Currently in my tree there are two potential Juan Gómez who could be this man that came forward.<br />
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For years to come, my tree was stopped at Manuel de Santiago, son of Petrona de Santiago. Back in 2013-2014, I had spent some time visiting the LDS church in New York City to have access to Yabucoa's church records and my searches for Petrona's death, Manuel's baptism, or even his marriage to Juana Burgos were fruitless. When the church records for Yabucoa became available online on FamilySearch my searches went elsewhere in Yabucoa and to other towns now easily accessible. Last summer, however, I decided to locate Manuel's death record in Yabucoa's Parroquia Santos Ángeles Custodios' church records. Little did I know this record would make my brick wall come tumbling down. </div>
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Manuel's death is recorded in the Civil Registry on the 19th March 1888 and mentions he had passed away one day before at 6 in the morning [18th March 1888] due to pneumonia. Having this date in hand, I began to search the Yabucoa church records for a death record for Manuel de Santiago. </div>
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The first thing that shocked me was a second surname for Manuel listed as "Ramos". I initially thought, <i>this can't be my Manuel, he doesn't have a second surname on his civil death record</i>. But the closer I looked at the death record, I noticed that everything matched up - Manuel de Santiago, passing away the 18th of March 1888, married to Juana Burgos. Except this time it listed his parents as <b>Claudio Santiago</b> and <b>Marcelina Ramos</b>. My mind began to race, <i>How could there be two different recorded parents on one death? Who then reported his death to the church? </i>Here you can see there is no mention of who came forward to register his death at the church, but was there a way to figure out which record was correct? Of course! If I could located Manuel and Juana's marriage record, I could hopefully once and for all confirm who his parents were. Since he was alive for his wedding and most likely relying the information himself of who his parents were, this would help to confirm which of the two records were correct. So last summer, I spent a lot of time searching the Yabucoa church records painstakingly going through images one-by-one searching for more confirmation of Manuel's parents. And final, at one point early in the summer, I was able to locate their marriage record.<br />
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Manuel de Santiago and Juana Burgos were married on the 17th of September 1853 (166 years ago this month!) and though hard to see on the record, playing around with the brightness you can make out his parents' names - <i>Manuel de Santiago, vecino de Las Piedras, hijo legítimo de <b>Claudio y de Marcelina Ramos</b></i>. Though I'm not 100% sure it says "Las Piedras", based off the script/handwriting, knowing that it doesn't say "<i>de esta feligresía" </i>(parishioner of this town) like his wife, and that his father was born in Las Piedras himself, I'm fairly sure that it's Las Piedras. </div>
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Here we now had another record to confirm his church death record's parents' names - Claudio Santiago & Marcelina Ramos (my 5th great-grandparents). By finding both his church death record and his marriage record, I was able to find out the names of my 5th great-grandparents and continue to research these lines. Last summer I was able to discover that before arriving to Yabucoa, my family had lived in Las Piedras and Humacao as well as the names of Manuel's 4 grandparents and 4 out of 8 of his great-grandparents - these being my 6th and 7th great-grandparents. I was pretty excited about this new information as it brought some of these branches back to the early 1700s. </div>
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This past July 2019, before heading out to travel for the summer, I was searching the early 1800s baptism records in Yabucoa. Luckily for me, I was able to find Manuel de Santiago Ramos' baptism record! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">Manuel de Santiago Ramos, Bautismo 1822</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> [FamilySearch]</span></td></tr>
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Baptized on the 1st of July 1822 (I found this record 197 years and 3 days after he would have been baptized!) and born on 19th of June 1822, Manuel was the legitimate son of Claudio de Santiago and Martina Ramos (though listed here as "Martina", I'm confident this was supposed to be recorded as <i>Marcelina</i>). It mentions that his godparents are <b>Juan de Santiago</b> and <b>Luisa Ortis </b>[sic], and based of a baptism I found in Las Piedras for Claudio, these would be his paternal grandparents, my 6th great-grandparents. </div>
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Had I not looked into the Yabucoa church death records it would have probably taken me some more time to realize there was a mistake on his civil death record. Finding this "second" death record allowed me to find his marriage record and ultimately his baptism record. Though I was stuck for about eight years, finding this one church record allowed me to research and find three more generations in the span of one year. This is why it's important to cover of all of your bases when searching for an ancestor and use multiple records to corroborate your findings. Hopefully this post can serve as an inspiration to those of you stuck searching for an ancestor! Keep trying, looking in new places, and using multiple records and sources to aide your search. </div>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-90017534332239527172019-09-25T18:17:00.001-07:002019-11-29T13:23:37.452-08:00A Puerto Rican Look at: Ancestry's "MyTreeTags"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A bit earlier on in the year, around spring/early summer, Ancestry released "<a href="https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/MyTreeTags" target="_blank">MyTreeTags</a>" which can be added to your ancestors in your tree. Hyperlinked above, you will find how to set up the tags and the different types that exist already. Another feature of the tags is that you can create your own "custom tags" which you can make and define to your liking. In this post I want to highlight some of the different ways I've used the MyTreeTags in order to build out specific aspects related to Puerto Rican genealogy. Definitely feel free to play around with the tags and create your own that may fit the specific needs of your tree.<br />
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When this feature was initially released, I was a bit hesitant in its use. I knew my family pretty well as I work on genealogy basically everyday and so I wondered how it could help me. So I decided to explore some of the pre-designed tags (some pictures below). The tags are broken down to various categories, for example: DNA, Life Experience, Research, and Relationships.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>MyTreeTags - Research</b> [Ancestry]</td></tr>
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Right away "actively researching", "brick wall", and "immigrant" stood out to me. These were tags that I could easily attach to some of my ancestors. My <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/at-complete-and-utter-standstill.html" target="_blank">Correa ancestors</a> were definitely under the list of actively researching and brick wall while my Guadeloupean, Martinican, and Mallorcan ancestors fell under immigrant. Here's an example of how the tags look on an ancestor's profile, below I've marked my ancestor with two preset tags created by Ancestry.<br />
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However, these were facts that I knew pretty well - so I thought, <i>how can I make these tags work for me personally? </i>I tried to think of tags that would make sense for my family and aspects that were important when it came to genealogy when suddenly it clicked (hint above). <i>Why don't I create tags that track race and social statuses in Puerto Rico?</i> </div>
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As you can see above I've created the tags: Blanco, Español, Pardo, Slave, Slave Owner, and Twin. Forgive my Spanglish creations, at some point I'll probably switch them all to Spanish as most of my notes on my tree are in Spanish to match documents. The "race" tags reflect what was written on the documents, for example <i>blanco </i>or <i>pardo </i>seem to be the main two I've found so far through my tree. "<i>Negro</i>" hasn't really appeared in my documents besides my ancestors that came from the French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe but I've categorized them as "slave" since I know both had served as slaves on their respective islands. Below is another example of a custom tag and a preset tag, my <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/04/52-ancestors-14-julienne-malvina-lautin.html" target="_blank">4th great-grandmother Julienne Lautin</a> was an immigrant from Martinique who had previously been enslaved until 1848, she would have been four years old when she received her freedom.<br />
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On the other hand, my 7th great-grandfather <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/02/manuel-ruiz-pardo-slave-in-1700s.html" target="_blank">Manuel Ruiz had been a slave</a> on the island of Puerto Rico but was listed as 'pardo' on his documents. Linked above is the post about how I traced his enslavement on the island. Below you can see an example of two custom tags on his profile.<br />
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What's cool about the tags is that you can search in your tree for everyone you've tagged with that specific phrase/word. So for example, if I wanted to see who was enslaved in my family, I could search 'slave' and retrieve a list. Below, you can see a few of my direct ancestors who were slaves at some point of their life. 5 of these 6 ancestors were from outside of Puerto Rico while Manuel Ruiz is currently the only slave I've traced in Puerto Rico. I know there are probably more slave ancestors hidden somewhere in the mid-early 1600s in Puerto Rico but I have yet to identify them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>MyTreeTag - Slave</b> [Personal Ancestry Tree]</td></tr>
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Another tag I've created is "Español", this tag is reserved for ancestors who themselves immigrated from Spain to Puerto Rico. Recently, I discovered my <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/08/researching-my-davila-ancestors-in.html" target="_blank">6th great-grandfather Dávila ancestor who came from southern Spain</a>, and thus I tagged him as "Español". Also, my <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/05/52-ancestors-22-damia-magraner-morell.html" target="_blank">3rd great grandfather Damián Magraner</a> is also tagged as "Español". </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>6th Great-grandfather, Spanish Immigrant</b> [Personal Ancestry Tree]</td></tr>
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Finally, another interesting tag I've created is "Slave owner". I don't have many of these in my tree but it is important to know who owned slaves as it influences the narrative and story of my ancestors. One specific ancestor is my <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/02/52-ancestors-8-berntardina-sepulveda.html" target="_blank">4th great-grandmother who owned slaves</a> in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Discovering this information allowed me to better understand her life in the late 1800s in Puerto Rico and how her own mother (my 5th great-grandmother) also owned slaves thus <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-look-at-my-5th-great-grandmothers.html" target="_blank">leading me to find her last will and testament</a>. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>4th Great-Grandmother, Slave Owner </b>[Personal Ancestry Tree]</td></tr>
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As I continue to learn more about my family, my goal is to continue creating tags that will allow me to quickly identify facts about them that might not be obvious from their biographical information. Some of the tags I've recently added include, for example: "twin" and "triplet" as I've had a couple cases of twins and one case of triplets in my family. There are some pre-created tags for DNA such as "common DNA Ancestor", "DNA Match", and "DNA Connection" but I'm not sure if I want to use those yet. We'll see how these keep developing and how I can seamlessly incorporate them into my tree. </div>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-64471050073241921902019-08-21T10:15:00.002-07:002019-08-21T19:16:04.277-07:00Researching my Dávila Ancestors in Andalucía, Spain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Back in October 2018 (almost a year ago now), I posted about my <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/10/tracing-line-to-spain-davila-family.html" target="_blank">Dávila-Cantos</a> family who I had at the time traced via genealogical records on the island of Puerto Rico from Maunabo to Coamo and ultimately back to a town in Spain. That was where my search had ended - with the name of 6th great-grandfather, José de Cantos Dávila, and a yearning to want to discover more about this family in Spain. I was unaware of the possibilities of me actually discovering anything about them there but I figured since I was going to be in Spain this summer I would try and head down to San Juan del Puerto and figure out the archival situation there. This post will detail my experience before heading to Spain and up to the point of searching the archival records there and how I went about it. Hopefully this can be seen as a useful guide for those of you who have discovered ancestors from Spain but aren't fully aware of how to go about searching them in their respective towns.<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What I Knew</span></u></b></div>
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The first part was laying out all of the information I knew about my ancestor from San Juan del Puerto, a small town (of about 8.5K inhabitants) a part of Huelva, in the southern region of Andalucía. Because his first child was born in Puerto Rico, I figured he probably married there and came alone from Spain. From the information I had attained on him from the parroquial records of Puerto Rico, I had no parent names or sibling names so I knew it wasn't going to be a quick and easy search. However, luckily San Juan del Puerto is a small town and if he actually was from there then I didn't imagine the search would be too difficult.<br />
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For simplicity and "direct application's" sake, I am going to use my ancestor's information throughout the post to help provide actual examples to show how this information had grown throughout my searches. This was what I knew so far:<br />
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<b>Name:</b> José Cantos/de(l) Canto Dávila<br />
<b>Birth: </b>1730-1750, San Juan del Puerto, Huelva, Spain<br />
<b>Marriage:</b> Josefa García Rodríguez y Bonilla; Puerto Rico<br />
<b>Death:</b> Coamo, Puerto Rico<br />
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Because I have no marriage or death record for José Cantos Dávila I wasn't sure of his parents' names and thus I was going into this search almost blindly.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Before Arriving</u> </span></b></div>
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I had read on another genealogical blog that reaching out to the church or diocese was the best move in terms of knowing who you needed permission from and how to go about spending time in the archives. Unfortunately for me this was the hardest part! First, I was able to locate the website for the town, I had sent an email to various people in hopes that I would receive permission to research my ancestors. After about a week and a half I had gotten no response about visiting the church and whether or not I would be able to conduct research there. Fortunately for me, I had a friend "on the ground", a friend who lives in Madrid and who was able to call and figure out the situation. By the time I was in Madrid myself, I had gotten the okay to do research and the phone number for the volunteer in charge of helping people in the church. If it wasn't for my friend I would have had to call internationally and to a different time zone in hopes of catching them at the right time. Given the green light for research, I planned my visit to the town.<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Getting There, Part I - Huelva</span></u></b></div>
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When I travel, I use an awesome website called <a href="https://www.rome2rio.com/" target="_blank">Rome2Rio</a> which gives you various options on how to get to where you're going, the time it'll take, and also the costs. What I like about the website is that you can build a route that includes various cities and countries and see which are the most convenient ways to get there and how much it'll approximately cost you in total. Since San Juan del Puerto is a small town I wanted to see what my options were.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Madrid to San Juan del Puerto Rico</b> [<a href="https://www.rome2rio.com/map/Madrid/San-Juan-del-Puerto" target="_blank">Rome2Rio</a>]</td></tr>
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Since there weren't many AirBnB housing options in San Juan del Puerto I could stay in farther away Sevilla and take the train/bus or closer in Huelva and take the bus in - ultimately I decided on Huelva since it was closer to San Juan del Puerto and unlike Sevilla I had never been there before. I decided I would take the train into Huelva from Madrid, stay at a hotel centric enough to the train and bus station, and commute to San Juan del Puerto. Watching the landscape change was beautiful and being in Huelva was very calming, I think there was a combination of small town feel + people being away for summer vacation that gave the town an eerily calm and deserted feeling. After being in Madrid and Barcelona, I didn't mind the calm!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Landscape view from the train - between San Juan del Puerto and Huelva</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Old Huelva Station</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>¡Llegué!/ I have arrived!</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Walking around the deserted streets of Huelva</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Getting There, Part II - San Juan del Puerto</span></u></b></div>
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In the town of Huelva there is a local bus company called "Damas" that runs the route from Huelva to San Juan del Puerto various times a day for 1.75€. Since I was going to be researching mainly in the evening I found times close enough to when I wanted to head over to the town and went to the bus station. In San Juan del Puerto the stops are basically one before entering town and the other at the other end of town practically exiting the town. I decided to get off at the first stop and walk into town, that way I could see the entrance sign versus doing a reverse trip into the town.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Bus Stop in Huelva</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Bus Stop in San Juan del Puerto</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Town Sign "San Juan del Puerto"</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Statue dedicated to traditions from San Juan del Puerto </b>[Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Street dedicated to the island of Puerto Rico </b>[Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Iglesia de San Juan del Puerto</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Researching the church records in San Juan del Puerto</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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Once I headed to San Juan del Puerto, I grabbed some snacks and water at the nearby Día supermarket and sat in the main square waiting to met the volunteer who would help me with the records. I was fortunate to have his personal number so I was able to call him in advance that day, set our meeting time, and then call when I had reached the town. Also, I was fortunate to have an American phone plan that allowed me to call for only .25¢ for every minute. After our introductions and explaining what I was searching for we settled in the office where the documents are held. Every church and diocese is different so I can't speak for all Spanish churches in regards to genealogy, for example here in San Juan del Puerto the volunteer sat with me while I researched, while other churches will trust you with the records in the room and occasionally check in on you.<br />
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My first quest was using the index (whew, thank God they had one!) to find my ancestor. The index for the town baptisms didn't cover all available years, however, it did cover the range I was searching for, and the index was based on first names which can be a hit or miss. If your ancestor went by their middle name or had a combination of names that wasn't the first one you knew in the New World, then your search could end in nothing - so honestly I was nervous. I jumped to the "J" section and in the mid-1700s looking for a <i>José Cantos</i> or a <i>José Dávila</i>. In the index it mentions the name of the baptized child and the name of his/her parents, so ideally this would be easy I would search for a "Cantos Dávila" "Dávila/de Cantos" combination next to a José and be done, right?! So I set off on my search and didn't find much, a bunch of Josés being baptized, but none had a surname Cantos or Dávila. I looked up at the volunteer from the index book and asked if the surname "de Cantos" was common in the town, he told me he hadn't really heard it before and I then asked about the surname "Dávila", to which he said yes and that there was a well known branch which had been written about. I kept searching and finally came across a "José Ávila García" and shook my head. <i>This couldn't be my ancestor since he was Ávila García and my ancestor was Dávila Cantos</i>. This being my only lead in the mid 1700s (I then searched a little before and after to rule out an older man or lately registered child) so I decided to check it out. I asked the volunteer for the book in the mid-1740s, jotted down the book number and folio (page) number and dove in. I was able to find a record and this was the entry: </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Baptism Entry for José Manuel Andrés de Ávila García</b> [San Juan del Puerto Parroquial Record]</td></tr>
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I noticed two things right away when I came across the entry: 1) The full name was José Manuel Andrés and the first two names "José Manuel" was also the name of my 4th great-grandfather born in 1818 in Maunabo, Puerto Rico - son of Bartolomé Dávila Cantos & María Cándida Rodríguez. 2) The father was actually "de Ávila" the symbol between Miguel and Ávila represented "de", also carried over and used in Puerto Rican church records.<br />
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So now I had a <i>José Manuel Andrés de Ávila (Dávila) García</i>, son of <i>Miguel de Ávila</i> and <i>Juana García</i> born the 3rd of January 1747. Could this be my ancestor? A few things overlapped: the use of "<b>José Manuel</b>", name given to my 4th great-grandfather, the use of the "<b>de Ávila</b>" surname, and the fact that the <b>age was perfect</b>. Back in Puerto Rico "José de Cantos Dávila" had his first daughter Catalina Dávila around 1765 (baptism not found yet) and the first official documented child my 5th great-grandfather Bartolomé Dávila in 1775, this would make this "José Manuel Andrés Dávila" about 28 when my 5th great-grandfather was born. Could it be him though? Luckily, the volunteer was pretty involved in my search and recommended I check to see if he married or died in the town, I went through the indexes searching for him and came up with nothing. No marriage, no death in San Juan del Puerto. With no other direction to go in, I decided to keep searching José Manuel Andrés' family and see what I could discover. </div>
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My next step was searching for Miguel de Ávila and Juana García's marriage record. Since José Manuel's baptism record said that everyone mentioned were natural and neighbors of the town then technically they should have married in San Juan del Puerto. I searched within the 1742-1775 marriage book searching from 1747 backwards to see if I could find a Miguel de Ávila marrying in the town. </div>
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Bingo! - In the book I was able to find the marriage of Miguel de Ávila and Juana García. When I started reading the record I let out a kind of "oh" - Miguel's father was named "Bartolomé"! If you remember, Bartolomé Dávila was the name of 5th great-grandfather back in Puerto Rico! So here we now had two family names repeating themselves across various generations, the use of José Manuel and Bartolomé. I looked up at the volunteer and told him about the use of Bartolomé as well as José Manuel in my family back in Puerto Rico and that the information was lining up so far and that these were pretty big coincidences. He then told me that some coincidences are too hard to ignore. The next piece of information I would find would seal the deal for me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Name repetition across various generations in my pedigree </b>[Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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I decided to keep searching this "de Ávila" family who had some pretty evident coincidences with my family back in Puerto Rico. My next search was for a marriage record for this Bartolomé Dávila, I was pretty surprised how lucky I was getting with finding records so far, since I was now reaching into the 1600s with this branch. And just like that I found Bartolomé Dávila's marriage record in the late 1600s, and when I read the name of his parents I jumped - his parents were named <b>Miguel de Cantos</b> and <b>Francisca de Ávila</b>. The surname I had seen in Puerto Rico had finally appeared in records! I told the volunteer about finally finding the "de Cantos" surname and he nodded, as if saying "this is it!".<br />
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Back in the days the tradition of using surnames wasn't as solidified in Spanish society as it is now, up until the 1600s and maybe even early 1700s surnames were chosen based off status and popularity of a certain surname. In this case, the "de Ávila" family had more status in the town (as I would later learn more about via a book of the Dávila family the volunteer found and copied for me) and thus the children became "Dávila/de Ávila" versus using the father's "de Cantos". Sometimes children even took the name of grandparents such as maternal grandmothers who came from illustrious families making genealogy in this time frame a bit more complicated, sometimes even siblings carried different surnames! However, it seems that years later the children especially José Manuel Andrés was still aware of this "de Cantos" name and would tack it on creating the "de Cantos Dávila" combination I repeatedly saw across various Puerto Rican records - yet 300 years later, Dávila would prevail and stay as the family's surname even up until today. </div>
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As I kept searching throughout the town records, the use of "de Cantos" was very scant - practically no one in the town had the surname besides one other man who could probably be a father, uncle, sibling, or cousin to Miguel de Cantos. I imagine that this family maybe came from a nearby town but unfortunately there were a couple of books missing so finding the marriage for Miguel de Cantos and Francisca de Ávila was not possible.<br />
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In the 2-3 days that I was able to visit the church I was able to discover quite a bit. I was able to find a baptism record for a José Manuel Andrés de Ávila García born in 1747, though at first I was hesitant to believe this was my ancestor finding his grandfather's marriage record where it mentions his parents were surnamed "de Cantos" and "de Ávila" was helpful to me to solidify the theory that this man was one and the same to my 6th great-grandfather. I was able to trace about 2-3 generations back from José Manuel Andrés de Ávila and luckily I was given a copy of the Dávila/de Ávila book which traces the family's origins back to the mid-1400s. I have to read through the book again and see where I can find records to back up the family tree presented in the book. </div>
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Before I parted ways with the volunteer, I thanked him for his time and asked how I could reach out to him in the future if I wanted to come back. He told me he worked for the diocese itself and had seen my email before my friend had called, which is good to hear because electronic communication is easiest across countries and time zones, I believe. I had also asked if there was any effort to digitalize documents and he said that since they were a small church the odds of that happening soon seemed little to none, funding would have to come from the church and it seems like too much of a monumental task at the moment for them - especially considering that there is only one volunteer who has a life/job as well. </div>
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I also asked if I could see the inside of the church and leave a 'thank you donation' before I left. Mass had just ended so he went inside to find the parish priest to let him know I wanted to leave a donation. In the meantime I peaked inside the church and took some photos, it's always odd to see places where my ancestors would have stood because their history connects me to this location. To believe that my 8th great-grandfather would have married here in the late 1600s is kind of mind-boggling. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Inside of La Iglesia Parroquial San Juan Bautista</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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After snapping some pictures I was presented to the priest, I told him I wanted to leave a donation and so he went to the back and got a donation envelope for me to leave behind money. I personally decided on leaving 50€ (about $55 USD), which isn't much but I wanted them to see I was appreciative of their efforts to conserve these documents. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Thank you note and donation </b>[Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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There is still much to research! Since I had limited time I basically focused on the main ancestor branches that would be my direct ancestors and tried to follow their trails as quickly as possible. Of course, there is still much desired to discover such as siblings and other records I might have glanced over in my haste to not waste time. Also, there are a few books missing here and there that might hinder my search for ancestors that might have migrated in from other towns. My goal is to hopefully visit San Juan del Puerto sometime in the near future and be able to dedicate enough time to searching without feeling too rushed - of course this would depend on how much time I can stay in the church researching and for how long I will be in Spain as well. So far I have been fortunate enough to research this branch and find out all that I did in the limited time I was there. Of course, with any research that is genealogy based there is the possibility that I've traced an incorrect family and miss associated my ancestor with them. So far, I am going off various elements of my research and I'm hoping that my research is correct and sound. </div>
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For the time being, I will continue to search around the towns of Coamo and Maunabo and see if I can find a mention of "José de Cantos Dávila's" parents in order to help solidify the identity of my 6th great-grandfather. My current hunt is a death record for José Dávila or a marriage record which may shine some more light on my 6th great-grandfather!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Statue in front of Iglesia San Juan Bautista</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-55678563421682608612019-07-04T05:00:00.000-07:002019-07-05T08:29:45.436-07:00My 200th Post- 8 Years of Blogging, 15 Years of Genealogy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
July 4th, 2019 marks 8 exact years since I began blogging. It all started when I was 21 years old and home from college over the summer. I was inspired by Cece Moore who runs <a href="http://www.yourgeneticgenealogist.com/" target="_blank">Your Genetic Genealogist</a> and has become a common name in the genealogist household with all the work she has done with DNA, adoptees, and even working on "Finding Your Roots". In June of 2011, she herself had completed her first year of blogging and so I decided to trace my own family via a blog as well. Who would have thought that 8 years and 200 blog posts later, I'd still be on this journey!<br />
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Though I don't have many official followers for my blog (as I haven't dedicated myself full-time to running it/putting it out there), I really started doing this for two reasons:<br />
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1) <b>Personal Motives</b> - To keep track of my own progress, hurdles, difficulties, breakthroughs, and as of recently analyzing my DNA in conjunction with my paper trail/genealogical searches. In a sense it would serve as a digital journey for which I could refer to and keep track of my finds and brick walls.<br />
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2) <b>Visibility</b> - While initially researching my family, I hadn't found too many blogs that covered a wide range of Puerto Rican topics in regards to genetics and genealogy and I ultimately wanted to be a contributor in order to make Puerto Rican Genealogy more visible. There is a big misconception that genealogical records from Puerto Rico have been burned, lost, or destroyed by hurricanes and people give up without even realizing all of the amazing resources available for Puerto Rican research there are out there.<br />
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5 years ago, I posted my <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/05/post-100-happy-10-years-of-genealogy.html" target="_blank">Post #100</a> and I actually really liked the style I wrote in so I think I'm going to mimic it for Post #200! Feel free to read post #100 to compare and contrast now that I have 100 more posts and 5 more years added!<br />
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<b><u>What I've Learned</u></b><br />
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My first blogpost was titled "<a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-started-it-all-part-i.html" target="_blank">What Started it all - Part I</a>", where I write about the typical Puerto Rican love story of a "Spanish man" and a "Taíno woman" who had fallen in love in Lares, Puerto Rico - my 2nd great-grandparents. By the time I had written that post I had about 7 years of genealogical research under my belt but I had only just begun to scratch the surface of research. There were many doubts about my tree and definitely many, <b>many </b>ancestors'<b> </b>names yet to be discovered. When I began at the age of 14 there were no known (to me) family trees out there, none created by my grandparents, uncles/aunts, parents, or cousins. All I knew at the time when I began my tree were 2 out of 2 parents, 4 out of 4 grandparents, 6 out of 8 grandparents, and 7 out of 16 great-grandparents - though it's a little, it's also a lot compared to what some people start out with.<br />
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I've been very fortunate that since I started my research and blog I have come pretty far with my pedigree, which I am both fortunate and blessed to have. Various of my lines reach the early 1700s with a few reaching the 1600-1500s and very few the late 1400s when they came over from Spain. A few lines stop at the 1800s due to the lack of records for slaves - these being my lines from Martinique and Guadeloupe. However, "Rome wasn't built in a day"! It's been 15 long years of painstaking research where I have put in literally thousands of hours to search for my ancestors. I have been blessed to be able to travel to Puerto Rico to continue my searches various times, as well as traveling to <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2015/03/travel-tuesday-soller-mallorca.html" target="_blank">Mallorca</a> to research my ancestors. I have also been able to <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/11/travel-tuesday-el-puerto-de-santa-maria.html" target="_blank">visit towns in Spain</a> where my ancestors lived/were from before heading to the New World. Recently, I have been able to continue to <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2015/12/5-years-and-10-genotypes-later.html" target="_blank">test various family members with DNA</a> and across various companies to help triangulate and find new information about <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-puerto-rican-look-at-generational.html" target="_blank">who we are on a genetic level</a>.<br />
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<i>I've linked above and below various posts to the different themes I've discussed over the years! </i></div>
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<b><u>Advances in Genetic Testing</u></b></div>
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There have been many advances in genetic testing since I first started researching my family, to believe when I first tested with 23andme back in 2010 the cost was somewhere near $600 for one single DNA test! Nowadays, genetic DNA testing has become much cheaper and fairly accessible to many, not only here in the US but in various other countries. Here are some of the more recent posts that highlight these advancements throughout the years. </div>
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<li>Exploring my <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/05/a-puerto-rican-look-at-my-x-chromosome.html" target="_blank">X-Chromosome</a></li>
<li>Establishing an <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/04/chromosome-7-african-american-connection.html" target="_blank">African-American Connection</a> via Chromosome 7</li>
<li>Deeper analysis of <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-puerto-rican-look-at-23andme-european.html" target="_blank">European Ancestry</a></li>
<li>Deeper analysis of <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-puerto-rican-look-at-generational.html" target="_blank">African Ancestry</a></li>
<li>Using <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-puerto-rican-look-at-dna-painter.html" target="_blank">DNA Painter Tool</a> to narrow down DNA inheritance</li>
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<b><u>My Favorite Discoveries</u></b></div>
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Since 2014, there have definitely been some exciting finds! These discoveries are a combination of things: from DNA testing, finding new genealogical documents, to discussing/receiving help from other genealogists. There were a wide range of discoveries made, from very intimate ones to discovering my Dávila line's origin in Spain in the 1700s. Listed below are some of the recent discoveries I've been able to make! </div>
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<li>How a <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2015/06/how-raok-broke-my-guadeloupean-brick.html" target="_blank">RAOK (Random Act of Kindness)</a> helped me learn more about my 5th great-grandfather, Jean-Charles Gustave</li>
<li>Learning via 23andMe that my dad had a <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-family-reunion-57-years-in-making.html" target="_blank">half-brother</a> we had no idea about</li>
<li>Tracing my <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/10/tracing-line-to-spain-davila-family.html" target="_blank">Dávila line back to Spain</a> via genealogical records</li>
<li>Finding out I was <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-dna-connection-to-soller-mallorca.html" target="_blank">related to another genealogist</a> I had met in Spain with ties to Sóller, Mallorca</li>
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<u><b>Words of Advice</b></u><br />
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I would tell myself keep doing what you're doing! I have come a long way since my initial searches and there is still a lot to find out! Researching my family has brought me much closer to Puerto Rico and my identity as a first generation mainland American born citizen. To those of you budding genealogists - it's never too late! Ask family members questions, document what they have to say, and search online to see what you can find. If you're interested in genetic genealogy - test those family members (with permission, of course!) who might be willing to help you learn more about your family's past.<br />
<b><br /><u>Hopes, Dreams & Aspirations</u></b><br />
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Reading my post from 2014 it was interesting to see where I was amongst my hopes and dreams for genealogy. There are some I have been able to check off and some that are still on my genealogical "bucket list". For example, being able to travel to Puerto Rico and go around the island to discover the towns, barrios my ancestors lived in, and the churches my ancestors would have married in. I have been fortunate to travel to distinct parts of the island and as of recently meet cousins in <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-puerto-rican-look-at-y-dna67.html" target="_blank">Lares, Puerto Rico</a>. I have also been able to travel to Mallorca which was amazing. I still haven't become a professional genealogist, though I'm sure there is still plenty of time and I also haven't been able to travel to Martinique and Guadeloupe yet. I haven't brushed up on my French though hopefully that is in the works and I am still interested in bringing genealogy to my everyday life and profession.<br />
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I still dream about connecting <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/08/52-ancestors-33-eglantine-lautin-1821.html" target="_blank">Eglantine Lautin</a> to a certain country/tribe in Africa and it would be amazing to have DNA cousins that confirm my ancestors are connected to Martinique and Guadeloupe (I have one potential lead with a cousin but nothing solid yet!). I also want to continue collecting stories and record them to have a digital audio database of stories from my current living family members that I could look back on years from now and listen to. A genealogist's work is never done as you can see!<br />
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Here's to 2024 when I complete 20 years of genealogy! Let's see what's in store! </h3>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-42312971101770264682019-06-19T19:55:00.001-07:002019-09-02T05:33:14.751-07:00A Consanguineous Family: The Martínez of Guayama/Maunabo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Earlier in the year (a few months ago actually), while I visited Puerto Rico I made sure to revisit the Archivo Diocesano in San Juan. Here, my goal is always to try and find marriage <i>dispensas</i> (marriage permissions) given to my ancestors who needed permission to marry cousins of varying degrees. This specific time I was searching for my 4th great-grandmother's marriage record who in Maunabo, Puerto Rico married for a second time on the 19th of July 1860. Her name was Dorotea Ramos Martínez and her second husband's name was Manuel Ruiz Soto. I was interested in finding out more about Dorotea and potentially finding how she and her husband were related.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Matrimonio - Dorotea Ramos Martínez & Manuel Ruiz Soto</b> [FamilySearch]</td></tr>
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Searching through the 1860 marriage dispensations of Maunabo I found no mention of Manuel and Dorotea. There could be a few reasons for this: misplacement of the dispensation, it was never actually registered, damaged and tossed, etc. However, I came across the surname Martínez on various dispensations. Since I couldn't find my ancestor, I decided to invest some time looking at these Martínez dispensas a bit. Interestingly enough, I discovered that each of these marriage dispensations all tied back to a family I had in my family tree. Out of the four <i>dispensas </i>in Maunabo with the surname Martínez I had located - all of them tied back to my 6th great-grandparents José Martínez and Águeda de Soto. In this post, I will explore this family's migration, connections, and a theory of consanguinity.<br />
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My connection to José Martínez and Águeda de Soto comes to me via my mother's side of the family. Their daughter, Andrea Martínez Soto, was born in Maunabo in 1804 and the next five generations would live in the Maunabo/Yabucoa area - meaning my family lived in this area at least 145 years! Andrea is only one child of the 13 that I have been able to identify for this couple - sometimes José appears as José Antonio, since I don't have a baptism record for him I haven't been able to confirm his full name though seeing as how the wife constantly appears as "Águeda de Soto" (sometimes just as 'Soto') I think it's safe to assume this is the same couple. Andrea is also not the first born of the bunch, she had a few siblings come before her. It seems that the family has its origin in Guayama based on some baptism records I was able to find, the earliest being in 1795 of their son Felipe Martínez Soto. Another son Pedro Martínez Soto is estimated to have been born in 1792 but so far I haven't been able to find a baptism record for him. </div>
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Later, in 1804 Andrea was born in Maunabo. This means that around that 9 year gap the family was either in Guayama or Maunabo or even in Patillas, a town located between the aforementioned towns. Based on the older map I found of Puerto Rico, you can see that the towns were divided up differently and thus the borders of what was once Guayama are different than what they are today. A few other records help us narrow down where they were and when - For example, in May of 1798 José Martínez and Águeda Soto served as godparents to a child named Marcelina in Guayama, while in December 1801 they were godparents to a child named Saturnino Güisado in Maunabo. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Family Migration - Guayama to Maunabo</b> [Google Images]</td></tr>
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Our timeframe for their move has now shortened to between May 1798-December 1801. This is why documenting other events that occurred in the lives of your ancestors is important, thanks to their service as godparents I can more accurately predict where certain children might have been born!</div>
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Through my searches, I have been able to identify 13 children so far for my 6th grand-grandparents, which for the early 1800s isn't too surprising. Attached below is a chart for all of the children of this couple, they include: Florencia, Felipe, Pedro, Justa, Fabiana, María, Victoriano, Andrea, María 2º, Fermín, Hermenegildo, Cipriana, and Juan Martínez Soto. María (1802) and the rest of her younger siblings were born in Maunabo while her older siblings were probably born in Guayama. Fabiana who is guesstimated to have been born in 1798 falls within the cusp of years around their move.<br />
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I'm not exactly sure however when many of these children died or even when José Martínez and Águeda de Soto themselves died in Maunabo. For whatever reason the Maunabo death records were not digitalized and/or added to FamilySearch. I'm just hoping they actually exist and weren't damaged, lost, or destroyed!! </div>
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(1828) Eleuterio Garay <b>Martínez</b> + María <b>Martínez</b> Soto<br /><i>2º grado de consanguinidad en línea trasversal igual</i></h4>
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This first marriage I have was dispensed was between María 2º (I title her with 2º -second- since she was the second María born to my 6th great-grandparents) and Eleuterio Garay Martínez, though I don't have their actual <i>dispensa</i> since most begin the 1840s, it mentions in their church marriage record that they have a <i>2º grado de consanguinidad en línea trasversal igual</i>. Having their parents' names and looking at their trees, it would seem that Cayetana and José were both siblings seeing as how they're both Martínez and no other surnames overlap - with that being the case, it would seem that Cayetana and José were siblings and both from Guayama. </div>
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August 1872- Manuel de los Reyes <b>Martínez</b> Ban + Gregoria Lebrón Díaz<br /><i>2º grado con 3º grado de consanguinidad</i></h4>
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Manuel de los Reyes Martínez Ban is my 1st cousin 6x removed, the son of Fermín Martínez Soto - my 6th great-uncle. As you can see from the chart below, their relationship stands at a 2nd and 3rd degree of consanguinity by how they're related. Manuel de los Reyes' dad is a brother to his wife's grandmother, meaning Fermín and Justa are brothers and sisters. </div>
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September 1872- Manuel de Jesús <b>Martínez</b> Colón + María Vicente Rivera <b>Martínez </b><i> </i></h4>
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Manuel de Jesús Martínez Colón is my 2nd cousin, 5x removed. His grandfather was Felipe Martínez Soto while his wife's grandfather was Fermín Martínez Soto, brothers to Andrea Martínez Soto - my 5th great-grandmother. This is the second child of Fermín Martínez and his wife María Josefa Ban to marry a cousin. </div>
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Both Luis Lebrón and Ramona Martínez are my 1st cousins, 6x removed. Their respective parents, Fabiana Martínez Soto and Juan Martínez Soto, were siblings. Here we have two more of my 6th great-uncles/aunts having their lines intermix. That brings it up to 5/13 siblings that have children marrying cousins - who knows how many others there are!<br />
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1860 Dorotea Ramos Martínez + Manuel Ruiz Soto<br /><i>2º grado de consanguinidad </i></h4>
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As you saw earlier Dorotea Ramos and Manuel Ruiz were said to have a 2nd degree of consanguinity. This should mean that one of their grandparents was related to their spouse's grandparent. The question though is: who? I'm not sure how tangled this family becomes, is it just the Martínez that are all related or is there a connection through the "de Soto" branch as well? I'm not sure if there's an easier way to find out since I don't have the record to tie these branches together. However, as I continue to discover other relationships I am able to better determine the relationship between all of these cousins. </div>
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The question then becomes: Why was this family constantly marrying into each other's lines? Based off records, it seems that this family was a pardo libre mixed family so there wasn't a need to keep pure lines. Yabucoa and Maunabo were towns full of other families, I have lines from Maunabo that managed to avoid marrying into themselves; so why didn't this Martínez family do the same? </div>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-37969445131096427902019-05-08T18:57:00.000-07:002019-05-08T18:57:15.740-07:00A Puerto Rican Look at: My X-Chromosome<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With Mother's day being this Sunday here in the United States, I decided to take a different and closer look at my DNA - I wanted to see how my X-Chromosome and those of my grandmother, grandfather, and great-grandfather were passed down; all exclusively inherited from my maternal side of the family. Since I am fortunate to have these members tested on 23andMe, I can visually see how this inheritance how trickled down via 4 generations. </div>
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Above you can see how I get my X-DNA through various generations and ultimately down to me. Having used <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-puerto-rican-look-at-dna-painter.html" target="_blank">DNAPainter</a> (I've posted about it before) to trace my matches I have been able to trace which segments belong to which ancestors along potential my X-chromosome inheritance ancestors. It is important to note that as a male I have one X-chromosome inherited from my mother <b>BUT</b> from various ancestors including my <b>BOTH</b> maternal grandparents, <b>both</b> great-grandmothers, <b>one</b> great-grandfather, etc. This is demonstrated below:</div>
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This would mean that by understanding which pieces of DNA came from which sets of ancestors I could have a better idea of <i>part</i> of their cultural inheritance passed down to me via my X-chromosome.<br />
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You can see above that mainly my maternal grandmother's DNA is the one I carry while my maternal grandfather's DNA "bookends" my grandmother's genes. Looking at my ancestors that have contributed to my X-Chromosome, I can start to unravel a bit of a story for my ancestors. It's also important to note that various siblings can inherit in similar but different patterns a X-chromosome, so while I may have a smaller amount of my grandfather's DNA my brother's may have inherited different segment start and end points along their X-Chromosome.<br />
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These two pieces of DNA here were inherited from my maternal grandfather's ancestors. I'm not sure from which specific ancestors these are from yet but these ancestors were from the areas of Toa Alta and Barranquitas/Morovis in Puerto Rico. The Toa Alta side includes surnames such as Santos and Chéverez while the Barranquitas/Morovis side includes Rivera and Rodríguez - these are the surnames from 7 generations back of my 4th great-grandparents.</div>
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The first Native American chunk seems to come from my maternal grandmother while the second Native American piece of DNA is from my maternal grandfather. Interestingly on the first native segment I have two matches from my dad's side of the family that match me on my X-chromosome. This would mean that somewhere along my 2nd-great-grandmother's line there is a shared ancestor that comes from my great-grandfather, to my grandmother, and to me who is tied to my paternal Rivera side. </div>
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Surnames on the first Native DNA segment include Arvelo, Flores, Sánchez, Vera and were from the area of Quebradillas and San Sebastián in the 1700-1800s. The second DNA segment include the same ancestors from the previous "<i style="text-decoration-line: underline;">North African & Arabian; </i><i><u>Broadly European</u>" </i>which where ancestors from the areas of Toa Alta and Barranquitas/Morovis. The Toa Alta side includes surnames such as Santos and Chéverez while the Barranquitas/Morovis side includes Rivera and Rodríguez.</div>
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This whole blue segment basically comes from my grandmother. The beginning broadly Southern European segment I think is tied to my great-grandfather while the Spanish & Portuguese I think is tied to my great-grandmother. Deducing that, that would mean that the Spanish and Portuguese DNA is mainly from my Maunabo and Yabucoa side of the family. Surnames on this side of the family include Burgos, Dávila, Orozco, Ramos, Ruiz, and Santiago. These family branches have been in this area for hundreds of years with some lines stretching back to Las Piedras and Humacao back in the 1700s. It be interesting to try and see if I can find more matches to try and parse down genealogically which of these Spanish & Portuguese segments are attributed to whom. Having recently discovered my <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/10/tracing-line-to-spain-davila-family.html" target="_blank">Dávila line from Spain</a> it would interested in seeing which of these segments could potentially come from that family. Also, these ancestors were mixed between identifying as "white" and "pardo" so it's interesting that such a big chunk is specific to Europe - it makes me wonder if it's specifically from a certain set of white ancestors. </div>
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Studying my X-Chromosome has only given me a look into certain ancestors along my family tree. The more matches I have on my X, the better I will be at trying to triangulate which ancestors contributed to those segments and understanding their mixes. Of course, autosomal DNA and matching on other non-X-chromosomes is helpful as well but it's interesting to see that certain ancestors carried for example North African DNA to Puerto Rico and potentially those ancestors also contributed North African DNA to other chromosomes in my DNA as well. It's also amazing to see how the colors showcase the diversity of my family as well.</div>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-23621636212003649882019-04-24T19:34:00.000-07:002019-05-19T13:20:29.414-07:00A Puerto Rican Look at: Y-DNA67 (Avilés/Magraner)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>***Si eres descendiente de los Magraner de Sóller, </i><i>Mallorca, </i><i>especialmente a través de Damián Magraner Morell o uno de sus hermanos, me gustaría hablar con usted para ver si podemos establecer una conexión genética. Puedes dejar un comentario aquí en este blog para contactarte conmigo. ¡Muchísimas gracias!***</i></div>
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While in Puerto Rico for Spring Break, one of my goals was to <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/03/testing-testing.html" target="_blank">test</a> various family members through various companies. Since I don't have easy access to men who carry Avilés and Correa Y-DNA like I do the Rivera line (myself being a carrier of this Y-DNA group) since those members live in Puerto Rico, I decided I would focus on getting a male cousin from my Avilés family and my Correa grandfather to test. I decided to buy two Y-DNA67 exams for them from FTDNA. Recently, they had a DNA day sale and I decided to myself a Y-DNA111 exam to test my Rivera branch as well. So those are boxes I can check off on my <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/02/genealogical-goals-of-2019-part-ii.html" target="_blank">genealogical goals for 2019</a>! This blog will focus solely on my Avilés Y-DNA results.<br />
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<i>Buying a FTDNA Y-DNA test is not cheap! I would recommend to get these tests if you are an experienced genealogist </i><i>interested in learning more about your Y-DNA group </i><i>or an amateur genealogist trying to crack a wall in your direct paternal family. I have been fortunate to test various branches and I have done so for genealogical purposes such as: Establishing whether I have an African or European Guadeloupean Y-DNA group (Charles family), potential Jewish/Arab Y-DNA group (Correa family), Mallorcan connection to the Magraner family (Avilés family), and trying to establish a stronger connection for a relatively uncommon haplogroup (Rivera family). </i></div>
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<b><u>Background</u></b><br />
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For anyone that has been following my blog (thank you kindly!), you have probably seen the surnames Avilés and Magraner various times throughout many old posts. My trying to solve this family's mystery dates back to the beginning of my blog in <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-started-it-all-part-ii.html" target="_blank">2011, wondering about my 2nd great-grandfather's origins</a>. I spent time researching and writing about <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/02/52-ancestors-6-jose-aviles-magraner.html" target="_blank">José Avilés Magraner </a>in 2014 for the 52 Ancestors Challenge. I learned the name of my potential 3rd great-grandfather, <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/05/52-ancestors-22-damia-magraner-morell.html" target="_blank">Damián Magraner Morell</a>, and traveled to <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2015/03/travel-tuesday-soller-mallorca.html" target="_blank">Sóller, Mallorca</a> a year later in 2015, his hometown, to learn more about the man who made his way to Río Prieto, Lares, Puerto Rico. The closest I've gotten to confirming this on paper has been José's brother Lorenzo Avilés who mentions Damián Magraner on his <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2015/08/another-mystery-solved.html" target="_blank">Social Security Application</a> as his father. I stepped on <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2017/06/travel-tuesday-lares-puerto-rico.html" target="_blank">Lares</a> land for the first time in many years in 2017 but didn't make it up to Río Prieto. This year though I did! </div>
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Also, having a <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-dna-connection-to-soller-mallorca.html" target="_blank">DNA match with a fellow genealogist with a grandmother from Sóller, Mallorca</a> through various family members connected to the Avilés family helped me to help prove that genetically there is something there! </div>
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With my grandmother and great-aunts in tow we headed over to Río Prieto by car, my great-aunt wasn't too comfortable driving up the steep and narrow roads so I took charge of getting us there. The ride ended up not being too bad and I got to visit a few members connected to my paternal grandmother and great grandmother, I was introduced to the family as "<i>el nieto de Carmen" </i>(the grandson of Carmen) since they had never met me before and my dad spent his childhood between San Juan and New York and not in the mountain town of Lares. The ride over was amazing and here are some photos of getting to and being in Lares, it was amazing to see the land transform as we made our way up the mountain! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Driving up the mountain </b>[Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Nature at its best! </b>[Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The view from my cousin's land</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The "two way road" near my cousin's land</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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Our first stop was the house of my 1st cousin 2x removed. After seeing his land, talking about the effects of Hurricane María, and being gifted many fruits, I gathered up the courage to ask if he was willing to take two DNA tests for me. I was a bit scared he would say "no" for fear of not knowing what the test would do, but he was very willing to help out. I collected his DNA, wrote down some important information, and when we got back to San Juan mailed off the DNA test. </div>
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My reason to test this line was because I wanted to know where in the world it was connected to and whether or not it could prove that my family was related to the Magraner family. The test results came back pretty quickly and so I took a look at them!</div>
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<b><u>Interpreting results</u></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Magraner Haplogroup? </b>[Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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Getting a Y-DNA67 gave me basic results, in the sense that R-M269 is a fairly common group and doesn't give too many specifics into the smaller, more recent branches of this Y-DNA branch. My next step would be to upgrade the test to get more detailed results and potentially make more educated results of my connection in R-M269. Under matches, I currently have 2 matches at the Y-DNA67 level but at a genetic distance of 5 and 7, this would mean that our connection is much farther back in history versus having a genetic distance with a smaller number which would mean having a closer relationship in generations. My genetic cousin at the "genetic distance 5" reached out to me and we quickly chatted and noticed our relation was too far to discover at the moment but interestingly noticed that our surnames both had to deal with fruits - Magraner being a surname connected to the pomegranate tree! Lowering my markers to 37 for example gives me more matches but again, at a pretty far distance. The cousins seem to be wide spread across various countries in Europe, I do have some matches from Puerto Rico but they are at Y-DNA12 which is fairly distant as well. As you can see below my Y-DNA67 match has recent roots in the US but he said his family has older roots in southern France.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Y-DNA67 Match</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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My goal is that by hopefully writing about this branch and taking a Y-DNA test I'll be able to confirm my connection to the Magraner family of Sóller, Mallorca. If you descend from this branch, I'd love to chat and see if we can figure out our potential connection!<br />
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Though in a sense my results were "inconclusive", there still is hope! Y-DNA usually takes longer from what I know to establish stronger connections because it's such a specific group that is being tested versus for example autosomal DNA. 23andme has given me a bit of a deeper glance into the R-M269 group and hopefully as I upgrade to Y-DNA111, I will have stronger/clearer results and hopefully a Magraner descendant tests as well. This will in turn allow me to make a genetically educated guess about my Avilés family and whether our roots really are in Mallorca. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Haplogroup R-Z209</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's to hopefully solving a 128 year mystery in the making! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sóller, Mallorca [Google Images]</td></tr>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-87583170630866661582019-04-20T12:25:00.001-07:002019-08-25T18:18:31.701-07:00Chromosome 7 - An African American Connection<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">Chromosome 7 - Myself</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> [Personal Photo]</span></td></tr>
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With the continued use of DNA Painter, I have been able to see (in a sense) my results through a more magnified lens. Being able to break down genetic cousins via a comparison to my other tested family members has allowed me to better parse down a bit from which branch of my tree they come from. To learn more about DNA Painter you can <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-puerto-rican-look-at-dna-painter.html" target="_blank">read my previous post</a>. As I continued to add cousins to my DNA Painter, I noticed that on Chromosome 7, I matched up with a few cousins via my mother's side of the family that had no known connection to Puerto Rico. Intrigued I decided to continue exploring this specific segment and set of cousins, two of which were African American.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>European Ancestry - Spanish & Portuguese</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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Above you can see the highlighted segments in my Chromosome 7 that are attached for example specifically to Spanish and Portuguese DNA. My focus however are to the smaller segments that are cut up and distributed more unevenly across Chromosome 7 - amongst those pieces of DNA you can see Native American, Congolese, Senegambian & Guinean, and Ashkenazi Jewish. Knowing where these segments lay and where your cousins fall amongst them may be helpful to better understanding the genetic diversity of your ancestor from which you descend. Keep in mind that this doesn't mean that ancestor was 100% Native American, for example, but carried those genes in that chromosome which allows you to match with other cousins.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Mixed Ancestry - Indigenous, African, and Jewish</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<b><u>Simple Generational DNA</u></b><br />
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Remember that just because you match with someone on a certain segment of DNA doesn't mean that all of your siblings for example will match them as well. Each sibling may receive a range of combinations that might be similar or a bit different to your own. In a "simple generational" comparison, looking at my brothers and myself on Chromosome 7, you can see there is a difference in inheritance on that section. Below you can see exactly what I mean:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Chromosome 7 - Myself</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Chromosome 7 - Younger Brother</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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My older brother for example received a Congolese + Senegambian/Guinean segment towards the end of his Chromosome 7, we both share the Congolese bit while my little brother seems to have received a mix of Native American and Senegambian/Guinean but no Congolese DNA in that segment. Notice however that he does share the Ashkenazi DNA segment with me while my older brother does not. DNA is crazy, huh?!<br />
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To strengthen my theory here a bit more, I searched both of my brothers' DNA relatives on 23andme. My younger brother does not share the African American cousins while my older brother does share them on his relative list. Analyzing this on a deeper level would probably show us that my younger brother received a different segment from a <i>different</i> maternal ancestor compared to my older brother and I who received this same bit from the <i>same</i> maternal ancestor.<br />
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Looking backwards a few generations, you can see where these segments come from. I knew going in that these African American cousins matched me via my mother, I have been fortunate enough to have tested my mom along with her parents which allowed me to easily make this distinction. The question now was: Would my mother, and one of her parents also have Congolese DNA on this segment? See below to see where the Congolese DNA segment can be found: </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">Chromosome 7 - Mother</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> [Personal Photo]</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">Chromosome 7 - Maternal Uncle</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> [Personal Photo]</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">Chromosome 7 - Maternal Grandmother</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> [Personal Photo]</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">Chromosome 7 - Maternal Grandfather</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> [Personal Photo]</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">Chromosome 7 - Maternal Great-Grandfather</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> [Personal Photo]</span></td></tr>
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As you can see, my mother and one of her brother's inherited the Congolese DNA (there's another sibling but currently he is not tested). At the next level you can see that this piece of DNA was inherited from their mother (my maternal grandmother) and not their father (my maternal grandfather). At the 3rd generation you can see that my maternal great-grandfather did not have this Congolese DNA, which would mean that they inherited it from my great-grandmother. Testing my grandmother's siblings would probably give me a better idea as to who inherited which DNA from my great-grandmother amongst them. </div>
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Using my DNA matches from 23andme I began to set out which cousins I received from my maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother - here on out just referred to as "grandmother/grandfather" seeing as how this is all on my maternal side. From there I was able to see who matched my great-grandfather and any cousins who might match anywhere in between. Below you can see that the yellow bit inherited is from my grandfather while the rest of the chromosome is from my grandmother. The light green denotes my great-grandfather while the darker green my grandmother, these dark green segments I imagine are from my great-grandmother. The beige color is for a cousin who matches me with 2nd great-grandparents via my Meléndez-Sánchez great-grandfather while the purple segments are cousins I match via my Dávila-Orozco great-grandmother. As more cousins match me on these sections with a paper-trail the better I will be at figuring out from which great-grandparents and further this DNA came from.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><b>Chromosome 7 - Luis Rivera</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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Looking at where the Congolese DNA is, you can sort of see that it falls where the dark green chunk of DNA my grandmother passed onto me in Chromosome 7. Expanding the matches, you can see where various of these cousins fall. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Expanded DNA Matches - Chromosome 7</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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Above you can see that the 2 African American matches fall in the square of matches inherited via my grandmother. In that same box are 3 more segments on top, these being Puerto Rican cousins. Usually when matches fall under one another, it means that they probably share DNA and are related to you via a same ancestor as they are to those cousins as well. The question now was: Could these African American matches also share DNA with those Puerto Rican matches on Chromosome 7? Would they also match each other? It was time to test out my question!<br />
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Taking the cousin who shares 15cm with me, I compared that cousin to my Puerto Rican cousins and to my other African American cousin match within that shared segment. Below you can see that YES! they do share DNA with one another, both the African American cousins and to the Puerto Rican cousins. This mostly likely means that somehow on my grandmother's side of the family we all descend from a shared ancestor(s). With the ranges being between 11-16cm, this would mean that the relationship would be rather far back. DNA Painter estimates that at those CM the match lies at a ~60% chance of being anywhere between a 4C2R (4th cousins 2x removed) to as distant as 8C (8th cousins) - there are other scenarios such as 3C3R, 6C2R, or 7C1R. We would have to triangulate using everyone's results and family trees to be able to start to figure out and narrow down from where exactly we match. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Chromosome 7 Comparisons</b> [Personal Photo]</td></tr>
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Taking a look at Chromosome 7 for my Puerto Rican cousins, you can see that they also inherited the Congolese DNA in that area as well.<br />
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These two cousins have roots in the South and towards the mid-West respectively which makes it a bit harder to say exactly where they might match me since they don't overlap in similar states. However, these are probably recent states of residence and going further back might show an overlap in family both being from a certain state in the south, for example. A look at their Chromosome 7 shows one cousin with "Broadly West African" and another with Congolese DNA in that general area. It is possible that they might have other cousins themselves tested who can help narrow down which side of the family I would match them on. </div>
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You can also see that there is no European DNA in those areas for both cousins which would mean that our match is likely through an either mixed ancestor or ancestor directly from Africa. It is kind of amazing to see that amongst these 10 people, 9 of us have a classified Congolese DNA piece there. </div>
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Many slave ships made their way first to the Caribbean and later made their way to either North or South America. It is very possible that along one of those routes a slave or various slaves were left in Puerto Rico and another, genetically related either as a parent, sibling, cousin, etc., was brought to the south in the United States. Take a look at "<a href="https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/on-african-american-migrations/" target="_blank">The African-American Migration Story</a>" from PBS to learn more about the journey from Africa to the Americas. There are many sources that talk about the transportation of slaves to the New World, the various journeys taken, and the various stops the slave ships made. </div>
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I was both surprised and not surprised when I came across these DNA segments. For starters, I knew there were slaves in my family which was not surprising, but to be able to narrow it down to a Congolese segment inherited through various family members and traced back to my grandmother and shared by two African Americans <b>was</b> surprising. It's interesting to see how much can be discovered with the advent of genetic genealogy - these types of discoveries were only considered dreams back in the days. I'm lucky to live in a time where this type of genealogical work can be completed. </div>
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My next step would be to try and figure out how we are related, though this task is quiet a big one. I have reached out to these cousins and have already started conversations with one, who equally was surprised to see our match. It might be easier to see how these two cousins are related and see how I am related to the other Puerto Rican cousins and then go from there. Though seeing as how these matches are through an ancestor from Africa, it is possible that we might not, at least for now, know exactly how we are related. </div>
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The fact that we have been able to get this far has been nothing short of amazing!</div>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-20569886652647575612019-03-27T20:27:00.003-07:002019-03-27T20:27:56.722-07:00Testing, Testing...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />Just like that I'm back home from my spring break trip to Puerto Rico! Though it was a quick trip I was able to get a lot of genealogical work done, among one of those tasks was fulfilling my goal to get DNA testing done from various companies (FtDNA, 23andMe, and AncestryDNA) from various relatives. These test are in line with my <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/02/genealogical-goals-of-2019-part-ii.html" target="_blank">genealogical New Year's Resolutions</a> of getting my Avilés and Correa line Y-DNA tested and adding more autosomal cousins to the mix of relatives currently tested. Here's the breakdown of the testing I got done while in Puerto Rico.<div>
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This DNA test was only one and it was an autosomal test for my maternal grandfather. I wanted to add him to AncestryDNA since they also have an African breakdown that I would like to see how he scores in and also to widen the pool of genetic cousins I receive. Though AncestryDNA isn't my first choice for autosomal DNA testing since you don't get the maternal/paternal haplogroup(s) or chromosome segments, I decided to add him anyways. </div>
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For this one, I got two autosomal DNA tests done. I brought an extra DNA test just in case I came across another cousin but I decided to test two Avilés cousins from Lares, Puerto Rico since I was already there and could benefit from having two cousins from this line. One test was for my 1st cousin 2x removed, his father was my great-grandmother's full brother, and he's a male descendant from the Magraner line - having him tested will help separate out my DNA from my 2nd great-grandparents in <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-puerto-rican-look-at-dna-painter.html" target="_blank">DNA Painter</a>. I also tested my 2nd great-uncle, son of my 2nd great-grandfather and from his second wife. I'm hoping that by testing another generation closer to my 2nd great-grandfather connections to Spain will be stronger. Interestingly enough, my 2nd great-uncle's mother, though not my 2nd great-grandmother is my 2nd cousin, 4x removed - her paternal grandfather is my 5th great-uncle via a line that came from Yauco to Lares, Puerto Rico... that'll be interesting to see how it interferes with the DNA segments we match together! </div>
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<br />This was my first time getting a Y-DNA test done in recent years, I had tested a Gustave/Charles cousin a few years back and so far I don't have any super helpful/relevant matches, besides the fact that it's a European line that matches men from the UK/Ireland/Scotland area. It was, however, the first time I administered a Y-DNA test myself. I tested two men on this trip - my 1st cousin, 2x removed and my maternal grandfather. Some people aren't very interested in haplogroup testing but for me these two tests will help shine some light into two very mysterious lines. My Avilés line which is supposed to be Magraner from Sóller, Mallorca and my Correa line which I'm not sure where it's from and 23andMe says the line is commonly found amongst Arabs/Jews. Hopefully these tests will help better understand those lines in my family. <div>
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Once my DNA results appear for these various tests I'll update with some posts my findings. I'm glad I was able to get this done and excited as well to learn more about my family!</div>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-79926948669990573632019-03-22T06:25:00.000-07:002019-09-25T17:20:12.422-07:00A Look at my 5th Great-Grandmother's Testament<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Currently I am in Puerto Rico for Spring Break, and instead of laying down at the beach soaking in the sun, I have been visiting various genealogical places in order to get research done that I can only do while on the island. One of the places I visited was the Archivo General de Puerto Rico (AGPR) in search of my 5th great-grandmother's testament (amongst others). This post is in fact two fold, today March 22nd is the day Puerto Rico celebrates its abolition of slavery. Though I want to bring to light the possibility of finding records such as wills & testaments while here in Puerto Rico, it is also important to highlight the information found in them - in my case, the fact that my ancestor(s) had owned slaves in the 1800s. This fact has been something I have been aware of for a while now but seeing these names listed in her will was both saddening and raw. I think it's important to acknowledge the role our ancestors played in the past, whether good or bad, and to acknowledge the benefits we have reaped from them and learn from their actions.<br />
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<b><u>Visiting the Archivo General de Puerto Rico</u></b><br />
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There was a lot of worry that after Hurricane María, many genealogical places would be closed or have received irreversible damage. Luckily, the AGPR is open and running and even offers visiting hours on Saturday. With a simple email of the information of my ancestors (their names, year they made their testament, and name of the notary) they were able to find two protocolo boxes. Unfortunately, other ancestors' testaments were not available for viewing - some because their records might have never made it to the AGPR or because they never came before a notary and just made their testament amongst witnesses. Luckily, María de la Cruz Román, my 5th great-grandmother, did leave behind a will in front of a notary and they were able to find the box. So I headed to the archive to find out more about her life and the worldly possessions of my 5th great-grandmother.</div>
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Going into this search, I knew that <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/02/52-ancestors-8-berntardina-sepulveda.html" target="_blank">Bernardina Sepúlveda Román, my 4th great-grandmother, had owned slaves</a> right before their freedom in 1873 but I wasn't sure if they were inherited from María de la Cruz Román (her mother) or purchased separately. Taking a look at my 5th great grandmother's testament provided me with some more clues and information. </div>
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<b><u>Viewing her Testament</u></b></div>
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Getting to see the testament was very cool, the documents were very old and fragile but in fairly good shape and very easy to read. I was lucky the notary had an index of all of his transactions of the range of years I was searching, such as: transferring of power, selling land, testaments, freedom records, etc. I was easily able to find María de la Cruz Román's record, as well as while sifting through I was also able to find other documents that I'll focus on in another post. My 5th great-grandmother's testament was 5 pages long which started with fairly religious jargon about her soul, forgiving her sins, and believing in God and the Trinity, etc, etc. She left behind money to pray for her in the church (30 masses of San Gregorio) and to pay her debt mainly to her son (Juan Lorenzo Sepúlveda) and to a neighbor (Juan Soto, originally from Lares) residing in Adjuntas. In her will she left behind 450 cuerdas (acres) of land which she states has planted coffee, plantain, fruit trees, pastures and "montes" (which depending on how you use it could be wooded area, hills or mountains). She listed having 8 cows (5 with their offspring), 1 bull, 1 calf, 2 horses, 2 mares, 2 cows, and 1 sow. Interestingly enough, she left behind 18 cuerdas of land in Limón, Mayagüez. I find this interesting since she was originally from San Sebastián while her husband was the one from Mayagüez. It is possible that when he passed in 1829, he passed this land onto his wife who then passed it to her son Juan Lorenzo Sepúlveda Román. Unfortunately his testament was made in front of witnesses so it is likely to have never been officially recorded and sent to the AGPR. </div>
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What shocked me, but I expected, was a list of slaves she left behind, which on her will she lists as "siervos" - known as serfs or servants in English. They are given no value, nor age, or relationship between them but only listed by first name. Listed are: (1) Pedro José, (2) Teresa, (3) Severino, (4) Belén, (5) Francisca, (6) Tomasa, (7) Miguel, (8) María del Rosario, (9) Juana Bautista, (10) Petrona, (11) María Antonia, (12) Blasina, and (13) Manuela. I<b>n total, 13 slaves are listed in her will</b>. There is nothing in her will about who they are going to, whether they received freedom, or what the plan is after she passes away. She made her will in 1852 and passed two years later in 1854, freedom from slavery didn't come until 1873. So what happened to these slaves? </div>
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I have only been able to track a few so far (some of those who passed before María de la Cruz's will, which means they aren't included in the total 13 at the time of her will) and those that had children which Bernardina Sepúlveda inherited. Before 1852, María de la Cruz would have 7 slaves pass away (so far this is the number I have, which is possible to raise as I continue to search Adjuntas church records). These are those who passed: </div>
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<li>1829, Rafael 40 years old, married with María</li>
<li>1833, Ignacia, 35 years old, married with Ramón</li>
<li>1834, Saturnino, son of <b>Pedro José</b> and <b>Teresa</b></li>
<li>1835, Juan Xavier, son of Ramón and Ignacia</li>
<li>1836, Marcos, son of <b>Martín</b> and <b>Petrona</b></li>
<li>1836, María Cipriana, daughter of <b>Pedro José</b> and <b>Teresa</b></li>
<li>1836, Juana Cipriana, daughter of <b>Pedro José</b> and <b>Teresa</b></li>
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Here, you can see that some of the slaves from María de la Cruz's will got married and had children within their group. With these deaths it brings the current total to <b>20 total slaves</b>. </div>
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The next time slaves appear are in the slave registry of 1872, just one year shy of abolition. These appear listed as Bernardina Sepúlveda's slaves. In total she was 4 slaves: (1) Felipa, daughter of <b>Martín</b> and <b>Petrona</b>; (2) María Tomasa, daughter of <b>Pedro</b> <b>José</b> and <b>Teresa</b>; (3) Juan, son of Gerónimo and <b>Felipa</b>; and (4) Lorenzo, son of Ramón and <b>Felipa</b>. Here we can see some of María de la Cruz's slaves' children belonging to Bernardina. This would make me think that Bernardina inherited some of the 13 slaves and they had children which she continued to own up until abolition in 1873. </div>
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My goal is to try and track down what happened to the slaves María de la Cruz Román listed in her will. Did some of them receive freedom? Did they go to her children or were sold to other families? Part of this mystery could be solved with notary records but finding them could be like a needle in a haystack and take much more time in the AGPR that I unfortunately do not have. Interestingly, two slaves left a "deposit" of money to María de la Cruz Román which after her death is said should be paid back to them with 5% annual interest starting the 19 of August 1848. Was this a deposit for freedom? For insurance of freedom for their children? I don't think it's the latter since one of them was Pedro José and Bernardina owned one of his daughters. </div>
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With the abolition of slavery being today it's an interesting day for me. As someone who descends from both slaves and slave owners, it is hard to understand what this day means for me. Interestingly enough, my slave ancestors were freed before 1873 - those that came from the French islands were freed in 1848 and early where my Puerto Rican slave ancestors seemed to have received freedom in the 1700s, for example like my recently discovered <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/02/manuel-ruiz-pardo-slave-in-1700s.html" target="_blank">Manuel Ruiz, pardo slave ancestor</a>. Overall, it is a great day to celebrate that equality was somewhat given (though as we know not fully) to slaves and at the same time it stings to know that some of my ancestors took part in a dark part of history. Yet, we need to face our past, as Germans put it - <i>Vergangenheitsbewältigung</i> ("struggle to overcome the 'negatives of' the past" or "working through the past"), in order to better understand the society we currently live in and the struggles people face each day in order to make a better tomorrow. </div>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-19421383821478833772019-02-24T14:27:00.001-08:002019-02-24T17:52:38.715-08:00A Puerto Rican Look at: Generational 23andMe African Ancestry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This blog post will be an updated report on my African ancestry from 23andMe. Last month I had posted about some of my new <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-puerto-rican-look-at-23andme-european.html" target="_blank">European Ancestry reports</a> from 23andMe while last year <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-puerto-rican-look-at-generational.html" target="_blank">I wrote about my generational African mixes from AncestryDNA</a> (which I'll have to update at some point as well!). Since 23andme has updated their African scores for most (I think at this point all of their past clients as well) I figured now would be a good time to go over these new results and what they look like now.<br />
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<b><u>My Results</u></b><br />
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Before 23andMe upgraded their results to their current configuration, most of my African results were only listed as "West African", this ancestry tied to my sides of the family that were enslaved in Puerto Rico and my one branch which was from Martinique and Guadeloupe from my maternal side. So when I saw that 23andMe had updated their results to be more specific, I was excited to see what they were and compare them to my AncestryDNA ones. My current Ancestry Composition is listed as being updated "February 8, 2019" which isn't a full month since they've been up - it's also important to note that these results are not set in stone. As more genotypes from around the world are included and updated, there will be more diversity most amongst their samples and the more likely it is to become clearer. Below is a screenshot of my results:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>23andMe African Results - Luis Rivera</b> [23andMe]</td></tr>
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As you can see there are few categories of African DNA for me, these mainly being: Senegambian & Guinean; Congolese; Nigeria; Ghanian, Liberian & Sierra Leonean; as well as some "broad" categories. For the rest of the blog, I am going to concentrate on percentages assigned to current day countries* and not to those under the "broad" African categories. Also, from my results I have attached my Ancestry Timeline (screenshot below) as well as the Sub-Saharan African genes highlighted across my chromosomes.<br />
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*<i>Though these genes are tried to current day African borders and countries, it is fairly likely that some of this DNA poured over from other nearby countries before the modernized African countries as we know them were created post-colonization. This is important to note seeing as how tribes were not necessarily restricted to these modern borders.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Ancestry Timeline - Luis Rivera</b> [23andMe]</td></tr>
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From there results, there are a couple of takeaways. To begin with though my Nigerian DNA is listed at 3.1% my Ancestor Timeline shows that this ancestor was probably born between 1840-1900, the only other ancestry at that similar generational spot is "Spanish/Portuguese", which I attribute to my 3rd great-grandfather who came from Mallorca. Also, notice that the other African groups are listed at the early-mid 1700s-1840.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Highlighted Sub-Saharan African DNA - Luis Rivera</b> [23andMe]</td></tr>
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In my DNA above, notice that many of the segments are short, meaning that they were probably introduced into my family early on while other segments are a bit longer meaning that they aren't that far back in history. Some of the longer stretches are Chromosome 2 (Senegambian & Guinean), Chromosome 11 (Nigerian), and though Chromosome 14 seems to be a long stretch of DNA it's more of a chopped up mix of various regions and countries. You may also note that I have not included my X-chromosome in the photo above, this is because no West African DNA was transmitted to me through this chromosome, there is a piece of North African DNA but I am focusing on my West African results in this post seeing as how the North African piece can be most likely tied to Southern Spanish Moorish influence or even from the Canary Islands. </div>
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Since I have tested both of my parents, you can see that each of my parents gave me different pieces of African DNA, most of it coming from my mother's side of the family. Notice that "Senegambian & Guinean" and "Ghanian, Liberian & Sierra Leonean" is fairly equal on both sides of my family, while "Congolese" and "Nigerian" mainly comes from my mother's side of the family. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>African DNA Parental Inheritance - Luis Rivera</b> [23andMe]</td></tr>
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Referencing <a href="https://tracingafricanroots.com/puerto-rican-results/" target="_blank">FonteFelipe's blog</a> (linked directly to Puerto Rican AncestryDNA results) has been very helpful when it came to breaking down my AncestryDNA results. Not only did it allow me to learn more about my breakdown but it gave me some historical insight to the results as well. These were some of the main points I took away which I posted on my blog that were helpful for me when it came to understanding my DNA results:<br />
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<li>It seems that on average, Senegal, N. Africa, and Mali were high and/or main ancestral contributions to the DNA gene pool for African DNA in Puerto Ricans. </li>
<li>Senegal and Mali specifically create an "Upper Guinea" Founder effect in Puerto Rico, where the genes were entered into the families' genetic pool early on and kept passing down through the various generations. </li>
<li>South-central Hunter-Gatherers can be from an ancient gene-flow from the Pygmy/San people into the Bantu areas. </li>
<li>These higher Senegal and SE Bantu results can be from the 1500-1600s, again causing a Founder Effect. </li>
<li>"Mali" in the AncestryDNA categories is a hard category to fit into a box. From the colonial period, "Mali" DNA can be from Guinea Conakry and Sierra Leone. Some of the slaves from the region were known as "Bambara" and others as "Zape" (these mainly the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temne_people">Temne</a> from Sierra Leone) and there was definitely a presence of these peoples throughout the slave trade in Puerto Rico. </li>
<li>There are three main regions that FonteFelipe works with when looking at the African DNA break down in AncestryDNA, these are: </li>
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<li>A) <b>Upper Guinea</b>: Senegal, Mali </li>
<li>B) <b>Lower Guinea</b>: Ghana/Ivory Coast, Benin/Togo, Nigeria</li>
<li>C) <b>Central Africa</b>: Cameroon/Congo, SE Bantu, Pygmy/San (South-Central Hunter-Gatherers) </li>
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A couple of things to notice in-regards to the differences between 23andMe and AncestryDNA:<br />
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<li>On 23andMe Mali isn't a high contributor to DNA as it was on AncestryDNA, this has also since changed on AncestryDNA with my own Mali scores drastically dropping from what they were before. I also have not seen a specific "Mali" category on 23andMe. </li>
<li>Senegal on 23andme is roped into the region of "Senegambia and Guinea" which I would argue still creates a "founder effect" in Puerto Rico which we will see as I compare various family members. This would mean these genes were probably introduced on the earlier side of Puerto Rican history. </li>
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Intending to organize my ancestry into similar categories of Upper and Lower Guinea as well as Central African, some of the 23andMe categories fit nicely while others not so easily. For simplicity's sake, I am going to group my regions as such:<br />
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<li><b><a href="https://tracingafricanroots.com/maps/upper-guinea/" target="_blank">Upper Guinea</a></b>: Senegambian & Guinean</li>
<li><b><a href="https://tracingafricanroots.com/lower-guinea/" target="_blank">Lower Guinea</a></b>: Ghanaian, Liberian & Sierra Leonean; Nigeria </li>
<li><b><a href="https://tracingafricanroots.com/maps/west-central-africa/" target="_blank">Central Africa</a></b>: Congolese</li>
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Linked above are FonteFelipe's description of each region with information and maps included!<br />
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<b><u>Family Results</u></b><br />
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Taking various family members and placing their results into a table on Excel allowed me to compare between them their results and find trends amongst them as well. Below is a chart I created using various family member's results. <b>Note</b>: I used my great-aunt and great-uncle, both siblings of my paternal grandmother, to give me an idea of what my grandmother's results might look like if she were alive. I also grouped the family members that belonged to each side either under my father or mother, hopefully making it easier to see how each of these members contributed to my parents and ultimately to me.<br />
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It is important to note that this is not the total for my family's African results, for example "Broadly West African" was not included into this table and might be added later on when it is associated more clearly as these other groups are. Equally, North African is missing from the chart as well. There are a couple of things that stand out to me right away: </div>
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<li>The first being the "Upper Guinea" column, as FonteFelipe had mentioned there seems to be a founder effect occurring in Puerto Rico via this category and I think that trend still stands here on 23andMe, you can see that each of my family members for the most part hover between 3-8% range and each of my family members has received a similar amount. </li>
<li>The second column of "Ghanian, Liberian, & Sierra Leonean" seems to be fairly small across many of my family members. The highest on my paternal side is my paternal great-aunt on my Rivera side with 1.3% while my mother's results are at 2.9%, my maternal grandmother at 3.0% and my maternal grandfather at 6.8%. Since my maternal great-grandfather only has 0.8% it is likely that my great-grandmother contributed more to my grandmother under this category. </li>
<li>The third column of "Nigerian" is very interesting, as you can see many of my family members receive rather low scores. However, myself, my mother, and my maternal grandfather are amongst the highest received percentages. It seems that via my maternal grandfather my connection to Nigeria is rather strong, which I'll talk about more down below. Similarly, my grandmother via her father seems to have some Nigerian DNA there but not as strong as my maternal grandfather. </li>
<li>The fourth column refers to Congolese DNA which I seem to inherit mainly from mother's side, specifically my maternal grandmother. Though my maternal grandfather scores 4% himself. </li>
<li>Lastly, the 5th column is Sudanese which is interesting seeing as how it's Eastern Africa but my mother and her grandmother receive a small percentage of 0.2% and 0.1% - I don't see it as something super important but I figured I'd add it seeing as how two people in my family inherited in different generations. </li>
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Amongst my three brothers, the difference were inherited is basically zero (only a 0.4% difference really) of the Nigerian DNA. You can also see other African scores as well between us. My little brother received the most African DNA at 18.7% while I come in second place at 17.5% and older brother at third with 16.8%. </div>
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As you can see, we've each inherited about ~3% of Nigerian DNA, this number goes up to 12.2% with my maternal grandfather. This unusually high percentage in his DNA makes me question where it's from. I imagine that not all of it came from one specific ancestor, especially after seeing that others in my family have inherited Nigerian DNA who are not connected to him, but it does raise the question of who specifically? My grandfather's ancestry timeline says that this Nigerian DNA came about in the years 1820-1880, this would mean that somewhere in his 2nd-3rd great-grandparents someone carried Nigerian DNA and a good amount of it. My grandfather does have long stretches of Nigerian DNA, his entire Chromosome 8 on one side is entirely Nigerian.<br />
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There is no perfect science to how much an ancestor will give you but there is an average per each generation. At 12.5%, that would be a great-grandparent's DNA, and I know that I have no Nigerian ancestor that close. However, there is the case of my grandfather's great-grandmother <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-41-maria-paulina-gustavo.html" target="_blank">María Paulina Gustave Lautin</a> born in Puerto Rico in the year 1867, could most of this Nigerian DNA come from her parents? Both of Paulina's parents were born slaves on Martinique and Guadeloupe so having recent Nigerian DNA from them is very possible. Paulina's own grandmother (<a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/08/52-ancestors-33-eglantine-lautin-1821.html" target="_blank">Eglantine Lautin</a>) was born in Africa around the year 1821, fitting into the DNA timeline provided by 23andMe.<br />
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For now, I can't be too sure if I am on the right track in terms of finding out if my Nigerian DNA is mainly from my Gustave-Lautin line. I would have to test some cousins from this line to see what their Nigerian score is and see if I can add a brother of my grandfather to see what his score is as well. I also understand that these results feel like they are ever changing, so who knows what they'll look like in a year or beyond. For now, I'm taking my results with a grain of salt but it's interesting to see how each of my family members has inherited different amounts and how those get passed on to different generations and even to people within one generation.<br />
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A next step would be to identify on DNAPainter where I can attribute these Nigerian segments along my DNA and find potentially cousins that also fall under those areas in order to find out our Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA).<br />
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I am also excited for the day my DNA will be tied to certain individuals in the "old world" and hopefully provide me a glance to where my ancestors were from in Africa before the slave trade.<br />
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-53311193575857735482019-02-16T19:51:00.003-08:002019-06-22T12:55:02.199-07:00Manuel Ruiz - A Pardo Slave in the 1700s<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In line with my goals for the new year, I've been taking a look at my lines trying to push them back in the 1700s. Many of my Coamo lines have been pushed back to 1700s but I always like to take another look at them and see if I'm missing any children or to find new hints. Taking a look at the catalogue of indexed baptisms in Coamo created by another Puerto Rican genealogist, I noticed that in two years there is a Manuel (esclavo de María Ruiz) and Victoriana Sánchez listed. In my tree, I have a Manuel Ruiz and Victoriana Sánchez (my 7 great-grandparents) so immediately I was intrigued. So I began to search more into the possibility of them being my ancestors seeing as how both names matched up. So in this post I will break down the information I currently have on Manuel Ruiz and run through the documentation that these two men are one and the same.<br />
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<b><u>Who was Manuel Ruiz?</u></b><br />
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Before finding this new information, I knew that one of my 7th great-grandfathers was named Manuel Ruiz. He lived what it seems most of his life in Coamo, Puerto Rico where he both married and passed away.<br />
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Manuel Ruiz would have married around the 1750s and 1760s based off the years of baptism from his children. He married a woman named Victoriana Sánchez (sometimes she just went by Victoria and in one occasion her last name was written down as "Matos"). Victoriana Sánchez fairly young, died around the age of 37 on the 15th of October 1775. No parents were listed for Victoriana and she had left no testament or will since she was poor. Later in 1784, almost 10 years after his first wife's death, Manuel Ruiz would marry for the second time to a woman named Lucia Morales.<br />
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From his first marriage, so far I have been able to count about 10 children: Francisco (1758), Manuel, José (1761), María (1763), Lucas (1765), Francisca (1768), Gregorio, Juan Manuel (1770), Josefa, and <i>María de Gracia</i> (1773) - my 6th great-grandmother. Those children who have no birth year listed after their names means that so far I have no baptism record in Coamo for them though I may have found a death or marriage record. Manuel would pass away in October 1795 in Coamo and left no will for lack of worldly possessions. </div>
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Recently, I discovered sons Francisco and José by chance. I noticed that a Manuel, slave of María Ruiz was registering his children's births in 1758 and 1761 and that his wife was listed as Victoriana Sánchez. What are the odds that there were two men with the same wife's name in 1700s Coamo? I would guess the odds were slim. So I decided to take a look at the records. </div>
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<b><u>Tracing Manuel Ruiz through records</u></b></div>
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Originally, my earliest child for Manuel Ruiz and Victoriana Sánchez was María, born in 1763. Below, you can see underlined the name of Manuel Ruiz and Victoriana Sánchez. As you can see there is no mention of either of them being slaves, pardos libres, or white. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>María Ruiz, hija de Manuel Ruiz y Victoriana Sánchez</b> [FamilySearch]</td></tr>
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As I had mentioned above, there were various children from this couple that I had no idea when they were born exactly. One of them was Francisco Ruiz, who married in 1783 to a slave named Angela de Santiago. I found it interesting that Francisco Ruiz would marry a slave seeing as how in the 1700s, social class and status was probably a big deal. Thinking nothing of it, I tucked it away in the back of my head and keep researching for other siblings.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Francisco Ruiz y Angela de Santiago, eslava</b> [FamilySearch]</td></tr>
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Seeing as how they married in 1783, I would guess that Francisco Ruiz was born somewhere in the 1750-1760s. Usually when I find a marriage but no baptism, I take away 18 years from the marriage date to get a guesstimate of when the person was born. In this case, Francisco was potentially born in 1765 (this is definitely not an exact science, but it helps to give me an idea of where to search next for baptisms). I was very surprised when I found a "Francisco, legitimate son of Manuel, slave of María Ruiz, and Victoria Sánchez, parda libre" being registered for a baptism in 1758. </div>
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I was initial surprised to see this! Mainly because it went against one of my theories about the pardos libres in Puerto Rico. I had always thought that a pardo libre was someone who had never been a slave and was marked that way to signify their free status in society. Here we can see that Manuel Ruiz, who I am guessing was the same man, was originally a slave before receiving freedom. Though no race is mentioned in these current records, later on in his second marriage to Lucia Morales there are multiple times that he is mentioned as "pardo libre" (this term could possibly be akin to the term "mulato"): 1786 (baptism of his son Antonio), 1787 (baptism of his son José), and 1790 (baptism of his daughter Petrona).<br />
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If memory serves me correctly, Puerto Rico like the United States based the status of a slave on their mother. In this case, since Victoriana Sánchez was a parda libre herself, all of her children would have been born free despite Manuel Ruiz having slave status. Manuel Ruiz and Victoriana Sánchez had another child while he was still a slave, born in 1761 by the name of José Ruiz Sánchez. I would imagine Manuel was freed between 1762-1763, since when María was born there was no mention of him being a slave.</div>
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After finding these records, I was intrigued by Manuel's status of slave to pardo libre and continued to dig around. And this is where things got interesting!<br />
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<b><u>Manuel Ruiz A.K.A. Manuel Torres?</u></b></div>
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Manuel Ruiz and his wife also served as godparents a few times for other children in Coamo. Here in 1767 for example, we see Manuel Ruiz coming forth with Victoria Sánchez to be the godparents to a boy named Manuel, son of Francisca (slave of María Ruiz) - to me this helps solidify that Manuel (slave of María Ruiz) and my ancestor are the same man. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Padrinos: Manuel Ruiz y Victoria Sánchez </b>[FamilySearch]</td></tr>
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Now seeing that María Ruiz had another slave named Francisca Ruiz, I decided to look into her and see if she could potentially be a sister or of some other relation to Manuel Ruiz. I found another baptism for Francisca's son in 1762, a son named Martín was being baptized - 5 years earlier than this one above. This time the godparents were Manuel <b>Torres</b> and Victoria Sánchez. I did a double take, I thought my ancestor was Ruiz and not Torres? Martín Ruiz was registered as free though his mother was still a slave herself.<br />
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What's interesting here is the year 1762, the middle year between José Ruiz's birth and María Ruiz's birth when my ancestor went from enslaved to free. Could María Ruiz having passed away in 1762, given Martín freedom knowing she was at the end of her life and ultimately freed Manuel Ruiz upon her death? I was able to find a María de las Nieves Ruiz passing away in December 1762, who was married to Juan Manuel Feliz, no testament was left upon her death though. I'm not sure if I'm connecting threads that are supposed to be separate, but the odds here seem to be high that these are one and the same man. Could it have been that Manuel originally was the slave of a Torres and then transferred over to a Ruiz? Would that explain the back and forth of Ruiz and Torres? One more document helped to make things even more interesting.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Defunción - María de las Nieves Ruiz</b> [FamilySearch]</td></tr>
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As I had mentioned, there were some children of Manuel Ruiz and Victoriana Sánchez in which I only had a marriage for... another one of those was Francisca Ruiz Sánchez. Francisca would marry in July 1785 to man named Francisco de Borja Piñero, illegitimate son of Bernardina, deceased. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Francisca Ruiz, hija de Manuel y Victoriana Sánchez</b> [FamilySearch] </td></tr>
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Taking Francisca's marriage year and subtracting 18, I got 1767. I had found no Francisca being born to Manuel Ruiz and Victoriana Sánchez in that year, but could she have been born a "Torres"? BINGO! I was able to find a Francisca, born to a Manuel Torres and Victoriana Sánchez! </div>
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Remember that by 1767, Manuel would have been free already so the use of "Torres" is interesting. There is always the possibility that this was another man but seeing as how Victoriana/Victoria Sánchez was the wife and that is constant throughout all of these records helps to plead a stronger case for it being my 7th great-grandfather.<br />
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It seems like María Ruiz and another slave owner had a close connection seeing as how their slaves married and then based off his last name I think creates a bigger tie - his name was Manuel Torres. In 1756 a slave named "Vicente" was born to Andrés, slave of María Ruiz and María, slave of Manuel Torres. Later, a set of twins were born in 1759 to Andrés, slave of Manuel Torres, and María, slave of Manuel Torres. It seems that Andrés would have been transferred over from María Ruiz to Manuel Torres now that these two slaves were married. The twins, Tiburcia and Valeria, had two separate godparents. Tiburcia's godparents were Felipe Torres and Anastasia Torres while Valeria's were <i>Manuel Torres and Victoriana Sánchez</i>, and here Manuel is a Torres again, could he have been named in honor of his first original master? </div>
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As you can see there is still some searching to do. Could Manuel Torres or María Ruiz have left wills in Coamo detailing their slaves and what to be done now that they had died? What was Manuel's life like as a slave in the 1700s? Would his life been any different to other slaves since he was pardo? Did pardo slaves have a certain mix to them, for example white father, slave mother? No records point to parents for Manuel Ruiz and the baptisms from the 1730s in Coamo seem to be missing, so for right now there is no more to learn about his background. </div>
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I'll definitely have to keep my eyes out now for pardos libres who potentially were slaves before they received their freedom status! </div>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-25955364152362047532019-02-08T18:25:00.001-08:002019-04-28T19:06:00.181-07:00Genealogical Goals of 2019 (Part II) <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Continuing from my previous, <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/02/genealogical-goals-of-2019-part-i.html" target="_blank">genealogical goals of 2019 (Part I)</a>, here are the second set of goals for this new year!<br />
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<b>6. Push all my lines into the 1700s</b><br />
This one is a bit harder and will take some time, depending on the availability of records. I have been pretty fortunate to push many of my lines back to the early 1800s, though of course this is also thanks to a lot of dedicated hours and hard work on my behalf. A next step however would be to push my lines to the early 1700s and this type of work comes with its limitations. For example, lines that are products of illegitimate marriages and slaves are less than likely going to reach the 1700s, 1) because there was no listed father and with no clue to who he was I could search forever and 2) slaves were sometimes not given surnames or clues to their origins. For these cases DNA is my next best bet, but again that also comes with limitations. The endogamy on the island plays a hard role in figuring out who matches me where, so it's not like I could test cousins on those lines that are not related to other lines in my family, because so far it almost seems like everyone is related!<br />
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Going down my tree, I can definitely identify lines in the 1700s for example: Rivera, Román, Díaz, Mojica (Múxica), Marrero, Vélez, Pérez, Sepúlveda, Román, Magraner, Morell, Padilla, Santana just to give you a quick insight into surnames (these only paternal) I've pushed back to the early 1700s. Yet there are other names such as Mercado, Cajigas, Cruz, Gerena, Ortiz, Vázquez (again, all paternal) that I can not push back due to lack of records currently available. On my mother's side it's also a mix, some lines are pushed back to the 1700s and some still wavering in the 1800s waiting to be discovered. For example, San Sebastián is currently a big block in my research since none of their records are readily available online like how other towns for Puerto Rico are. Hoping though that as more records become available, this task will be much easier. <b><br /></b><b><br /></b><b>7. Continue reading books about genealogy </b><br />
This one is pretty straight forward, continue reading books that have to do with genealogy. Recently, I have been able to incorporate reading into my general everyday life again and so hopefully it'll stick and I'll be able to cycle through some genealogy books as well. There are some books I have on my shelf waiting for me to pick them up and read them and some on my Amazon wishlist waiting for me to buy them. A lot of these texts though can be historically factually heavy and thus makes me want to put them down pretty fast because it's too much to digest in one sitting. Hoping I get through some for the year though!<br />
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<b>8. Take a genealogy course </b><br />
I have wanted to complete this goal for some time now but there are two things that always stop me: Time and Money. I think taking a genealogical course, especially if it offers some type of certification, would be an amazing "genealogy resumé" builder, but I also fear that taking the course won't help me much. Though there are some courses that are geared to the more general approach to genealogy, I have also seen some targeted to mainly North American research - which for someone who does basically all of their research in Puerto Rico, the course won't be very helpful. <a href="http://professional.bu.edu/programs/genealogy/" target="_blank">Boston University</a> does offer an interesting course for genealogy which I think would be helpful but the course has a hefty price tag. Also, I always miss the deadline to actually sign up for the course which bums me out and then I totally forget. I think at some point, maybe in the fall, I would like to try and register for the course and actually take it. Taking it in the summer is difficult since I'm usually traveling or away from most of my genealogy books. I think it's definitely worth the investment especially if I want to later on get an actual certification as a professional genealogists.<br />
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<b>9. <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/04/chromosome-7-african-american-connection.html" target="_blank">Get savvier with the use of DNA results</a></b><br />
I've always been hesitant to learn from my DNA in-depth because it can be a lot to take in. With testing other family members and tools such as <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-puerto-rican-look-at-dna-painter.html" target="_blank">DNA Painter</a>, my goal is to hopefully continue learning more about my ancestors through DNA. Whether it's autosomal, haplogroups, mtDNA or YDNA, I'm hoping that I can take apart my results and what they hide. It's not easy with endogamy but bit by bit I can learn more about myself and my ancestors.<br />
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<b>10. Build stories around my factual evidence</b><br />
What I mean by this is that I want to learn more about what went on in the day-to-day on the island while my ancestors were living there. I know some key dates such as when slavery ended and the Spanish-American war occurred but for example, when were some of the major hurricanes to hit the island? The rebellions that occurred besides El Grito de Lares? What did the different societal classes look like? What other events pushed my ancestors from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Spain to come to the New World as well. I think some of this information will come from reading more books but I'll have to check around the internet as well and see what else I can learn.<br />
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Here's to hoping that I can stick to my goals and before I know it, it'll be 2020 and I'll be reflecting on these goals as well. Make sure to set some genealogical goals for yourself as well! </div>
Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-46014325424882999882019-02-02T08:54:00.002-08:002019-09-16T17:54:09.909-07:00Genealogical Goals of 2019 (Part I) <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With the new year off to a start, I'd figure I set my new genealogical goals for this year. Similarly to last year, I'll write out 10 genealogical goals I have in mind and what I would like to accomplish through each one. Since I've delved deeper into why and how I want to get these accomplished, I decided to break them up into two posts so I don't ramble on forever. Here are my first five goals:<br />
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<b>1. <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-puerto-rican-look-at-y-dna67.html" target="_blank">Test a male descendent for Y-DNA Avilés</a></b><br />
This one is a goal from last year that I haven't gotten to accomplish yet. There's a few possibilities or candidates here for gathering a Y-DNA Avilés cousin - most of them though to seem to be in Lares, Puerto Rico where my branches have lived for about 128+ years. My goal would be to add them via 23andme, this way I: <b>A)</b> also have some autosomal DNA to compare to other people such as my own family members and help to establish hopefully more connections to Mallorcan cousins and <b>B)</b> Find out which group my "Avilés" should be "Magraner" cousins carry as a haplogroup. I know that I should also add them to FtDNA where many people test for Y-DNA but right now I'll have to think that over. Especially if money is tight, and since I have a goal with adding DNA to FtDNA anyways, as you can see below.<br />
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<b>2. Add on my Rivera and Correa lines to FtDNA</b><br />
This one I'm surprised actually I haven't done it before. My goal here would be to add my own direct paternal line to FtDNA as well as my mother's line. Both of these lines have been in Puerto Rico since the early 1700s and I haven't been able to trace out of Puerto Rico. One, my own, points to origins in Europe (most likely Spain and that region) while the Correa family is tied to either Arab/Jewish populations (I would guess though also most likely from Spain but leading back to the times of the Inquisition or earlier). I know my haplogroup thanks to 23andme however I haven't been able to connect with other Rivera men who descend from the same branch as me. I transferred over some basic results from a now defunct Y-DNA company over to FtDNA but at the low SNPs I have, I can't really deduce anything or find connections. So my goal would be to go up in SNPs and go for a "higher resolution" of my own haplogroup while also adding my Correa family. It would be interesting to see who I match with and learn more about the exact line I descend from. I'm not sure if I should just wait for a possible sale in April or just get started on this as soon as possible.<br />
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<b>3. Continue to learn about my Correa family</b><br />
This one continues from last year as well, before the year was out <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/at-complete-and-utter-standstill.html" target="_blank">I reflected on how I was stuck searching for the Correa family</a>. As any genealogists knows, it's never fun to be at a standstill when it comes to unraveling family mysteries and discovering new lines, but sometimes I think it's necessary. It allows us to focus on other branches, learn new tactics for discovering ancestors, and ultimately lead us back to these lines as more seasoned genealogists. For example, since I haven't been able to discover anything on my Correa family yet I've begun exploring a Carcaño family that lived in San Juan during the time my own María Eugenia Carcaño would have been predicted to have been born/lived there. I'm not sure if I'm barking up the wrong tree or actually on a lead, but having this experience will allow me to rule out future families/connections I might try to establish later on. However, of course, I'm hoping that this family's origin is brought to light sooner rather that later.<br />
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<b>4. <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-look-at-my-5th-great-grandmothers.html" target="_blank">Visit the Archivo Diocesano and AGPR to attain testamentos and dispensas de matrimonio</a> </b><br />
These two places I have actually visited before, and digging through my past posts I was surprised by how time flies. The archivo diocesano <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2013/10/visiting-archivo-diocesano.html" target="_blank">I visited back in the summer of 2013</a>, which proved to be helpful in learning more about the marriage of my 3rd great-grandparents <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/08/52-ancestors-29-valentin-gonzalez.html" target="_blank">Valentín González</a> and Feliciana Mojica. The Archivo General de Puerto Rico (AGPR)<a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2011/08/visit-to-agpr-archivo-general-de-puerto.html" target="_blank"> I visited back in the summer of 2011</a>, the same year I decided to start my blog. Back in 2011 I was 21 and still pretty new to the whole "researching outside of the census" game, I knew there were other records out there but it was the first time I was interacting with state records in person. Since then, I've traveled to Mallorca, used more microfilms, and have learned from other searches into countries such as Sweden, Czech Republic (Czechia), etc.<br />
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My goal this time around is to search for some wills that my family left behind on my paternal grandmother's side of the family, this family back in the 1800s had owned slaves and most likely property so I'm interested in learning about what they left behind and glancing into their lives at the time. I'm not sure if their wills are in good condition or even if they are readily available to search but I'm hoping I can get to see them while I'm there in March. Meanwhile at the archivo diocesano my hope is to find the marriage dispensation for my 4th great-grandmother who in her second marriage in 1860 apparently married a cousin and received permission from the church to do so. This is hopefully a post to come in the near future!<br />
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<b>5. Begin to interview family members</b><br />
This goal is pretty straight forward, I want to start recording some of the voices of my living family members not only to have information recorded for future references but to also save their voices. This is one of the things I wish I would have done when my great-grandfather was around before he passed, who was born in 1922. Unfortunately, since he lived in Puerto Rico and I in the United States, we didn't get to see him often and by the time I was older, wiser, and able to travel alone he was already getting sick and didn't talk much. However, there are a good number of his children still alive, my grandmother included, who can help fill in some of those gaps of information and talk about their own lives and his. There are also great-grandmothers I never got a chance to meet that also live on through the memories and stories of their children. I have a sheet with guiding questions for these types of interviews that I'll have to translate into Spanish and I scour the internet for some more questions as well. This is a goal that I feel like is never too early to start anyways, the better their memories, the clearer the stories will be as well!<br />
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Make sure to check out my second set of genealogical goals (linked <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2019/02/genealogical-goals-of-2019-part-ii.html" target="_blank">here</a>!)</div>
Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-82335773516867725912019-01-20T17:28:00.002-08:002019-02-24T17:56:00.323-08:00A Puerto Rican Look at: 23andMe European Ancestry Reports<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Recently, after having a conversation with a friend about the new update to 23andme, he had figured out there were some new updated reports specifically to some of the populations - in this case the European Ancestry Reports. He realized that his Spanish & Portuguese report had indicated some new information about regions in Spain where his family was from. So I logged into my accounts to see the regions and it was very interesting! So in this post I will talk about the European update that I saw on my Ancestry Reports and how over generations it looks for my family from Puerto Rico. I have yet to really see other Puerto Rican results outside of my family members so I'm interesting in hearing from others of their reports.<br />
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<b><u>How can I find my reports? </u></b><br />
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When you log into your 23andMe account under the Ancestry tab you will see on the second line: "All Ancestry Reports". Click on this to access your reports.<br />
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You should be able to see your reports like below. These are updated results for 23andMe which I'll have to analyze deeper at another time, especially now that my African results have been broken down into more specific categories. For example, if you can click on "Spanish and Portuguese", in my case, I'll be able to see more in-depth results. This will vary depending in your ancestry and where your family is from. Despite having higher percentages of African results with certain members of my family, the results currently do not go anymore in-depth.<br />
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Below, you can see what my personal results look like, as you can read this isn't a perfected science... yet. The results will change since it's currently based on what people have reported their ancestry to be from. It states that "<i>in the last 200 years, your ancestors may have lived in the following locations"</i>. 200 years ago was 1819, and a great majority of my ancestors were already living in Puerto Rico, besides my Mallorcan line which was introduced later in mid-1800s. However, you can see here that three regions are highlighted for me, these being: Andalucía, Canary Islands, and Cataluña. At first glance, my reaction was "<i>this isn't surprising"</i>, knowing Caribbean/Puerto Rican history you know that most of the peoples that came to populate this region were from the southern parts of Spain and the Canary Islands. The pull to Cataluña I imagine is from my Mallorcan ancestor, especially since I imagine the people that went into the Balearic Islands were probably mostly from the regions of Valencia and Cataluña. My strongest region based off the colors seems to be Andalucía - again not too surprising. I've also traced some family lines to this region so my paper trail helps to confirm that as well. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Spanish & Portuguese Report</b> [Personal Photo - 23andMe]</td></tr>
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<b><u>European Reports Analysis</u></b><br />
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Taking these reports of Spanish & Portuguese I was able to compile the different regions my family are related to based off these ancestry reports. It's interesting seeing the similarities and differences between my family members, also seeing that some of my family members got results for Portugal was interesting as well. I compiled them into a chart showing the different family members, their percentages, the Spanish regions, Portuguese regions, and for one family member Italian regions.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">Compiled European Ancestry Reports </b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">[Personal Photo]</span><b style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span></td></tr>
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You can see that I start with myself, move into my parents' generations, and later the generation of my grandparents/great-aunts & one great-grandfather. I've placed their last names next to their generational name mostly for my sake to remember who exactly it was that showed these results. As you can see there are a lot of overlaps between regions mainly Andalucía and the Canary Islands. You can also see Galicia, Extremadura, Cataluña, Valencia, Madrid, and the Basque country amongst other regions in my family. Cataluña and Valencia as I theorize are regions that pull towards the Balearic Islands due to my ancestor in Sóller, Mallorca. Looking at the regions of one of my uncle's they hit the nail on the head with actually mentioning "Balearic Islands" as one of his region. Some of the regions mentioned, I have been able to find genealogical and paper trail evidence of family presence there. However, I don't have all of my lines traced back to Europe so I'm not sure where else my Spanish ancestors are from and this could definitely take time. </div>
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With the Portuguese ancestry, only three family members show Portugal: two of my great-aunts and my maternal grandfather. My Rivera great-aunt shows Azores and Madeira which are regions I have found before amongst my matches in 23andMe, as does my Vélez great-aunt and Correa great-grandfather. Interestingly though, my Vélez great-aunt also shows Braga while my Correa grandfather shows Setubal and Brangança district. </div>
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Braga is towards the north of Portugal which could be connected to Galicia and ancestors that lived in that area. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Braga, Portugal </b>[23andMe]</td></tr>
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This next town (Setúbal) is closer to the south of Portugal and even had a Al-Andalusian Arabic name earlier on in its history. Could be tied to southern Spanish ancestors though this town is closer to the ocean on the left than closer to the Spanish border on the right.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Setubal, Portugal </b>[23andMe]</td></tr>
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This last region is more northern than Braga and closer to the Spanish border. Just like Braga, it could be tied to Galician ancestors. There's definitely more research I would have to do into these Portuguese regions!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Bragança, Portugal</b> [23andMe]</td></tr>
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Interestingly, my Vélez great-aunt shows two Italian regions, though she only has 2.5% of Italian DNA. It shows her tied to the regions of Lazio and Calabria in Italy which is interesting to see since I have no known Italian genealogy so far. Her Italian ancestry says to have been introduced into the family around 1710 and 1800 and anywhere from her 3rd to 6th great-grandparents. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Lazio & Calabria, Italy</b> [23andMe]</td></tr>
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My Vélez great-uncle, brother to my great-aunt (both siblings of my grandmother) also shows Italian ancestry. His percentage is at 5.5% which is higher than my aunt and shows three regions, two of which they both share. The third region is Sicily which for my Vélez great-uncle shows up at region #1. Truly, I'm not sure how this ancestry has been introduced to my family. Whether through Mallorca, a Corsican ancestor that came to Puerto Rico, or another way. I've only been able to research a few branches to the early 1700s so there's definitely somewhere else they could be hidden along my pedigree. I also wonder however if other Puerto Ricans have this similar ancestry in their gene pool. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">Sicily, Lazio & Calabria, Italy</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> [23andMe]</span></td></tr>
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<b><u>Conclusion</u></b><br />
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There is still much to learn from these new ancestry reports, some of them make a lot of sense like the various regions in Spain but I'm not sure how Portugal and Italy fall into play with my ancestry yet. My hope is that in a near future the regions will be more informative as well as the African regions being added to better distinguish the different tribes and countries. This is especially important for those of us with slave ancestry who might have no idea where in West Africa their ancestry is tied to. My goal is to analyze the recent updates for my African results as well... stay tuned! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Senegambian & Guinean Ancestry </b>[23andMe]<b> </b></td></tr>
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Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-88614906315942290632019-01-13T17:26:00.000-08:002019-02-24T17:56:33.830-08:00A Marriage Where You Least Expect It<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Recently, I was taking a look again at my "Rivera" line. This is my direct line going back to the early 1700s in Toa Alta. Besides my father and my grandfather, every male ancestor (4 in total so far) have been born in Toa Alta. Though 4 may seem insignificant, that's a total of close to 300 years of my family living in this one town. This post is going to be about discovering some new information about my 4th great grandparents!<br />
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<b><u>Setting the Stage</u></b><br />
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My Rivera family was one of my catalysts for wanting to research my ancestry when I was younger. I wanted to know where my Rivera family was from and wanted to know where potentially in Spain they were from. Though initially it was difficult to find out about this family, I was fortunate to find out that they were from Toa Alta, Puerto Rico which led me to using the Civil Registry and the church records in order to push my ancestors back to the early 1800s. My earliest ancestors were <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/04/52-ancestors-15-joseph-de-rivera.html" target="_blank">José de Rivera</a> and <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-37-gertrudis-roman-1790.html" target="_blank">Gertrudis Román</a>. José passed away sometime between 1824-1844 and Gertrudis passed in 1844, but besides that I had no idea of their parents' names. The "Rivera Román" children were all born during a time grandparents weren't added into baptism entries so I had no idea of their parents' names. I also had no siblings for José and Gertrudis to help with my search for parents or potential origins outside of Toa Alta.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Toa Alta </b>[Google Images]</td></tr>
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One day however, while looking through the records for Guaynabo I came across a "Rivera Belén" marriage entry in 1773. The reason this was important was because José was written as "Rivera Belén" in one of his son's baptism record. However, in neither of the other 8 baptism records does José appear as "Rivera Belén". Not wanting to lose the record I attached it to José as a possible brother and moved on.<br />
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Recently, I took a look at other marriages in Guaynabo to see if I could find any other "Rivera Belén" siblings and found a new record that completely shocked me!<br />
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<b><u>A New Record</u></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>José de Rivera & Gertrudis Román</b> - Marriage [FamilySearch]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">José de Rivera & Gertrudis Román</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> - Marriage [FamilySearch]</span></td></tr>
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Searching my way up from the 1770s I bumped into a record that made me gasp - it was a marriage record for a José Rivera and Gertrudis Román. Could these be my ancestors?! The marriage took place on the 2nd of March 1802 and my ancestor's first registered child was in 1806 in Toa Alta so it was possible... So I took a closer look at the record:<br />
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<b>José de Rivera</b> was widowed of María Feliz and the legitimate son of Pedro and María Morales, resident of Toa Alta and <b>Gertrudis Román </b>legitimate daughter of Manuel and Margarita Ayala, all pardos libres.<br />
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So here we had some new information, José was widowed before he married Gertrudis and now we had the names of both of their parents, interestingly enough José named a son Pedro so having a father with the same name wasn't surprising.<br />
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With this I was able to go back into the marriage records of Guaynabo and find José's first marriage to María Feliz in 1791, stating again that he was a native of Toa Alta. Gertrudis herself was probably from Guaynabo seeing as she had other siblings born there, I have yet to find a baptism record for her there though.<br />
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At first I was hesitant to believe these were my ancestors, but the lack of a marriage in Toa Alta, the fact it mentions José was a native of that town, and Gertrudis Román's fairly uncommon name was enough to convince me that these were my 4th great-grandparents. The question remains though why José de Rivera lived in Guaynabo for a while and then ultimately decided to move back.<br />
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Something else that's interesting is the use of "Belén" in that one baptismal record. Could there be a connection to the Rivera Belén family somehow still?<br />
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I recently heard a genealogist say "solving one mystery, means adding two" (sorry I can't remember where I read it, if I find who I'll add credit here!), and this is absolutely true! Having a new generation of the Rivera family is amazing because hopefully I can research some more into these lines and find out more about them. I also have to learn more about Guaynabo, its history, and find out more about the Román Ayala presence there. </div>
Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-9963027305799775972018-12-31T11:08:00.000-08:002018-12-31T11:08:02.031-08:00Reflecting on my Genealogical Goals of 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Before the year is out I wanted to reflect on my goals which I created at the beginning of this year. My object for this post is to go through my 10 goals and update where I am with them. Mainly this is a self check-in for myself but also it's a way to see how far I've gotten in this one year with my genealogy. I'll categorize each one into either "<i>Yes", "Some", "No" </i>to know where I am with the goal. Maybe some will be extended into the new year!<br />
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<b>1. Posting more on my blog - <i>Some/Yes</i></b><br />
Looking to how much I posted this year, so far I have 18 posts compared to my meager 9 posts from 2017. 18 is the most I've posted in the last 3 years but looking at 2014 I posted 64 times! Granted, that year I partook in the <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/p/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-challenge.html" target="_blank">52 Ancestors in 52 weeks challenge</a> which forced me to post more. Since then I've discovered more ancestors but I'm not sure I know about their lives to post again for the 52 Ancestors Challenge. My goal moving forward is to continue cataloging the town church records in Puerto Rico that I began this past summer.<br />
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<b>2. Test an Avilés male descendant for Y-DNA - <i>No</i></b><br />
This goal I haven't been able to accomplish yet but I'm hoping that by visiting Puerto Rico next year I'll be able to meet some Avilés cousins and get one or some of them to test.<br />
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<b>3. Search more into my Yabucoa roots - <i>Yes</i></b><br />
This summer I spent a lot of time researching my Yabucoa roots. I haven't gotten to post yet about them but I have been fortunate enough to trace most of these branches out of Yabucoa and into nearby towns such as Las Piedras and Humacao. Luckily, Humacao also has church records on FamilySearch so I was able to continue researching them in those towns as well. With these records, my Yabucoa roots have been pushed back to the mid-early 1700s. There's one side of that family however, my Orozco/Santana line, which I've traced to Las Piedras but I haven't been able to find out much more about my 3rd great-grandfather <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2014/02/52-ancestors-7-benito-orozco-1843-1923.html" target="_blank">Benito Orozco</a> besides finding his baptism record.<br />
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<b>4. Learn more about my Correa family - <i>Some</i> </b><br />
Ugh! If you've been reading my blog then you know my struggle with this family. <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/at-complete-and-utter-standstill.html" target="_blank">I recently posted</a> about this branch and the lack of motion I've gotten in researching them. I'm still stuck and ultimately I'm going to take a break and come up for some air since I haven't been able to find out anything new. However, I did realize in a few documents - whether by coincidence or not - that "Correa" wasn't written in the document and he was written just as "José (de) León" - his first and middle name. Coincidence? We'll hopefully see soon!<br />
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<b>5. Read more books in relation to Genealogy, Genetics, Puerto Rico, etc. - <i>Some</i></b><br />
This summer I did get a chance to read more but I also tried to diversify my readings in order to not get stuck in the same genre. In terms of genealogy and related topics I got a chance to read: "Victoire" by Maryse Conde, "Reunion" by Ryan Littrell, and "The Social Life of DNA" by Alondra Nelson. They were all pretty good books and from different realms of genealogy, "Victoire" dealt more with the story telling/learning about an ancestor and retelling their story. "Reunion" had a mix of story telling with discovering ancestors and making connections through DNA, while "The Social Life of DNA" was mainly based in DNA. My goal is to continue reading this year some more especially since I've purchased some new books recently!<br />
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<b>6. Continue to help others discover their ancestors - <i>Yes</i></b><br />
This one I think just comes naturally to me since I love to work on genealogy. I've been able to help fellow Puerto Ricans extend their lines and helped out with some American research that goes back to countries such as Ireland, Germany, and Iceland to name a few. This is always rewarding because I can see the happiness and awe of people who are learning about their family without having known much about their roots prior to research. Being able to give them names, towns, or even ship manifest information about their ancestors has been pretty cool.<br />
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<b>7. Find an ancestor from Spain - <i>Yes</i></b><br />
I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to answer "yes" to this goal! Going in, I knew that this goal was going to definitely be a tough one and honestly speaking I would have guessed the Correa goal to be much easier than this one... but alas, I was able to get this checked off the list! Recently (in October) I posted about my <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/10/tracing-line-to-spain-davila-family.html" target="_blank">Dávila Cantos family</a> who I was able to trace out of Puerto Rico to a town in southern Spain - San Juan del Puerto. It took a bit of sleuthing and with the help of some indexed records I was able to use what I knew about the family and find their origin. Hoping that 2019 brings more ancestors' origins to light and more names of towns and villages outside of Puerto Rico!<br />
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<b>8. Continue researching the Puerto Rican church records - <i>Yes</i></b><br />
This one is tied to a few goals above, but luckily during my summer break I was able to do some more research into the church records that have been placed online and have been able to crack some walls. For example, I was able to <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/07/genealogical-spring-cleaning-clearing.html" target="_blank">clear up a confusion between siblings</a> and learn the names of my 7th great grandparents through the <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-death-record-to-confuse-them-all.html" target="_blank">death record of Francisco Pérez de la Cruz</a>. This all thanks to the records from FamilySearch and I know there is more out there to research as well! <br />
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<b>9. Begin planning a trip to Martinique and Guadeloupe - <i>No</i></b><br />
I'm not too mad about this one haha. This is definitely a long term goal that will go on for some years but I should definitely start an excel with places/towns I want to visit along with monuments, museums, etc. I love planning travels so this is definitely something I'll look forward to but I have some other things I want to get down first before I go, for example practicing and learning some more French!<br />
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<b>10. Research more into my African/Taíno roots - Some/<i>Yes</i></b><br />
This is something that though I haven't been able to read about, I know I have learned more about through research. For example, learning that many of my ancestors were labeled <i>pardo libre</i> is interesting and eye-opening, especially for a fairly light-skinned Puerto Rican who gets weird stares sometimes when I say I'm Puerto Rican. I was able to <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-puerto-rican-look-at-generational.html" target="_blank">breakdown my African percentages</a> based off my parents' and some family members' results on AncestryDNA, but I still would love to learn the name of some of the countries in Africa my slave ancestors came from, but again, this is something that will take time. However, with learning more about my Yabucoa roots I have been able to trace my direct maternal line to an ancestress that lived in the early 1700s and she carried my current haplogroup which is an indigenous group found in the Caribbean. So this is something that though I have been able to accomplish I hope to continue learning more about through my research.<br />
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Overall, I think it's been a pretty good genealogical year! There have been other things that have occurred this year that don't fit into my goals but have been good milestones nonetheless. Using new tools to learn about my ancestry such as <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-puerto-rican-look-at-dna-painter.html" target="_blank">DNA Painter</a> and <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-puerto-rican-look-at-geno-20.html" target="_blank">Geno 2.0</a>, as well as connecting with a genetic cousin (and friend!) with roots in Sóller, Mallorca (<a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-dna-connection-to-soller-mallorca.html" target="_blank">Magraner line</a>) have been pretty memorable things from this year as well. I'm thinking of creating some new goals for this upcoming year to help guide me for what I want to get accomplished. What did you get to accomplish genealogically this year? </div>
Luis Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710452569605312589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374838921731256393.post-65626409914112284092018-12-27T21:00:00.000-08:002019-02-24T17:57:40.977-08:00A Puerto Rican Look at: DNA Painter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This summer I began to play with a tool called "DNA Painter" but with school starting up I didn't get a chance to write a blog post about it. Now that I'm on winter break, I can take sometime to talk about the tool and how as a Puerto Rican it has worked for me so far.<br />
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<b><u>What is DNA Painter? </u></b><br />
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<a href="https://dnapainter.com/" target="_blank">DNA Painter</a> is a tool currently in beta that allows you to take a look at your chromosomes with a bit of a more "microscopic" view into your exact segments and who you match with, also known as chromosome mapping. The tool was created by Jonny Perl and the application won the DNA Innovation Contest for 2018 at RootsTech. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--lRrbazUI4" target="_blank">Take a look at this video</a> about how he came into creating the tool and its uses!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>DNA Painter Homepage</b> [DNA Painter]</td></tr>
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Taking a look into the homepage you can see what it does, breaks down your DNA into various segments matched to certain ancestors. You have to register for an account in order to use the tool and as always make sure the read the terms and agreements before you create your account.<br />
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Also, take a look at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyjcJxywTZI&t=314s" target="_blank">Blaine Bettinger's DNA Painter Video</a> about how to use the tool as well.<br />
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<b><u>How does it work? </u></b><br />
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After creating an account you have to create a profile for yourself (or whomever you will be chromosome mapping for) and that is where you can keep track of your matching segments and cousins. You can create various profiles if you'd like and it has actually been interesting creating ones for my brothers and seeing where they match with certain people and the genes they inherited that I might not have.<br />
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You may use your genetic matches from various companies such as 23andme, Gedmatch (transferred results), and/or FamilyTreeDNA to name a few. Unfortunately, if you have AncestryDNA you can not use your segment data unless you have transferred them into Gedmatch and you'd have to hope (or convince that person) to transfer their results as well to see on which chromosome you match. This is important because this is how you begin to establish connections with those cousins and which ancestor(s) in your tree they match. Without the knowledge of the segment, you'd be lost as to where they match you and others.<br />
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Seeing as I have mainly used my 23andme information, this is what I'll mostly be referring to when it comes creating matches on DNA Painter.<br />
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If you take a look at how my grandfather and I match you can see that of course there are fairly large chunks. All of these segments below I got from him, so when I map these segments on my DNA Painter profile I can attribute them to him using his name or the name of his parents, my great-grandparents. Remember, these genes can be from <u>any of his parents</u>, so you'd have to use <b>both</b> of their names when you set the segments.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Me vs. My Maternal Grandfather</b> [Personal 23andMe]</td></tr>
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Under your DNA Painter, every time you want to set new segments or matches you have to click on "Paint a New Match". There, you can use the start position and end position of each chromosome you match on and upload that into the box (look below).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>"Painting a New Match" </b>[Personal Screenshot]<b> </b></td></tr>
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The box will look something like this! Depending on how many times you match that person across various segments you can continue to pile on the segments on new lines in the same box. Once you have placed the segments and are ready to save the match, you can decide what color to save the match and what name they can go under. For example, I chose to use my grandfather's name and so anytime I match someone through him they go under the color yellow and attached to his name. For me, this allows me to see the matches that I have through him.<br />
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<b><u>A Look at Comparisons</u></b><br />
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By using various of my own cousins, confirmed paper trail matches, and even unknown matches I have begun to map my chromosomes, currently they look like this!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>My DNA Painting</b></td></tr>
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As you can see there are various colors across my chromosomes and some gray areas. Overall, I have been able to map ~91% of my DNA through 489 segments of mapping. Some of the larger chunks such as yellow (<i>maternal grandfather</i>) and red/blue (<i>paternal matches</i>) are attached to just my great-grandparents while smaller chunks to older ancestors. It's definitely a work in progress and not so straight forward in the sense that you won't always have a match to help identify a grey zone or to go back further a generation. It also depends on how much the match knows about their family and how willing they are to talk about shared your genealogy. </div>
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As I had mentioned each color is set to different ancestors in my family tree. A cool feature on DNA Painter is that you can limit it to your maternal or paternal side depending on who you are looking at or focusing on at the moment. </div>
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Once you start matching up cousins they sort of begin to stack over one another. Taking a look at just my maternal side of chromosome 1, I'll break down what the colors means and the stacking: </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Maternal Chromosome 1</b></td></tr>
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This view of my maternal chromosome 1 is an expanded view of the different matches I have, as you can see I have turned off the "show match names" to provide anonymity. However based off the colors you can notice a few things.<br />
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The chromosome starts off with two shades of green but quickly jumps to a long yellow segment. Then again to a dark green segment. As you know the yellow segment represents my maternal grandfather, while the dark green represents my maternal grandmother. Weirdly enough you can see how my maternal grandfather's DNA just cut in between and left a small segment in the beginning from my grandmother. The light green segments belong to my great grand-grandfather who I was lucky to test before he passed. This means that from the long dark green piece (grandmother), the light green piece (great grandfather) marks what I inherited straight from him. You can deduce than that the other sections from the long dark green piece are from my great grandmother (red boxes added by me). Marked below: </div>
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Within the red boxes I added you can see there are purple segments, the segments are from matches that match my 2nd great-grandparents Pedro Dávila and Francisca Orozco, parents of my great-grandmother. Any match that falls in between the dark green lines match my maternal grandmother and then from there I can deduce if they match me through my great grandfather or great grandmother. </div>
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On the flip side, there are the yellow segments. As you can see I only have yellow there, which means that I don't have other family members to help narrow where along my grandfather's family these matches are from. However, it's interesting to see who matches me there. 2 years ago I wrote about genetic Ashkenazi Jewish matches that had segments with me on chromosome 1 and they all overlapped one another. <a href="https://boricuagenes.blogspot.com/2016/08/puerto-rican-dna-crumbs.html" target="_blank">Read here</a>! As you can see below, these matches are from my maternal grandfather and they are all stacked one on top of the other meaning that they along with my maternal grandfather somehow share an ancestor. The segments are fairly small so I would imagine this match is rather far back. </div>
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As you can see, there are a couple of ways to use DNA Painter. The cool thing is that it technically helps matching others a bit easier since you can deduce where exactly they match you along your family tree a bit quicker, especially if that cousin is unaware of much of their genealogical history or just quiet about your connection.<br />
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As I mentioned early having siblings allows you to see where you matches might differ. A quick example below is the maternal side of Chromosome 8. My entire chromosome comes from my maternal grandmother where as my older brother inherits most of it my maternal grandfather. Lastly, my little brother gets good sizable chunk from both of our grandparents! </div>
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Another step can be adding your ancestral ethnicity information which overlap your segments and you can get a better idea who from your ancestors gave you certain ethnic segments. This however can be a harder task for those of us who have choppy pieces inherited from our ancestors which aren't inherited in longer pieces and we might have no idea exactly who they are from. However, if you take the time and with a bit of luck you might be able to piece together where some of these pieces came from.<br />
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Here you can see on my X-chromosome I've inherited some native Indigenous ancestry but also some European from my grandmother and her X-chromosome ancestors. These segments came from 23andMe and I overlapped them onto my grandmother's side seeing as how they all fall under the dark green line. </div>
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<b><u>Conclusions</u></b><br />
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There's definitely a lot to play with and learn from on DNA Painter. For me, it's helped provide some clarity to matches especially when it seems that everyone matches everyone in my family. Knowing which lines they match through DNA Painter allow me to say "<i>okay, now I can specify this conversation to my ancestors from this region/town/surnames</i>". However, don't be fooled! Some matches share segments with <b>both </b>of my parents and therefore I save them twice, once under my maternal matches and again under my paternal matches when mapping my chromosomes. This way I don't associate incorrectly that segment to another ancestor. So you definitely have to be alert to how you match and use various cousins or profiles if you have them to confirm that match. I'm far from being an expert with DNA Painter but knowing the few things I know it has allowed me to become a bit more confident with genetic genealogy and using it to the best of my ability! </div>
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