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Dr. Ellen Fernandez-Sacco

Latino Genealogy & Beyond aims to share culturally relevant information and history regarding POC genealogy. Join me as I decolonize family histories through context and deep dives into archival research.

Daka Taino, Still Here.

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Mareas de Memoria: Black History & Genealogy in Puerto Rico: 25 April 2004 April 25, 2024
Thanks to the IOLI & El Museo del Mundillo! April 12, 2024
What Lies Beneath: The search for unmarked burial grounds in Hillsborough County February 25, 2024
Lcdo. Lorenzo Oscar Caban Arocho’s Bienvenidos a Moca January 20, 2024
The New Moses Williams Gallery at The Peale, Baltimore November 29, 2023
‘El Registro de Esclavos’: An archive you need to know’ at the 44th Annual AAHGS Conference October 18, 2023
Antonio Rocha’s “Voyage through Death to Life upon these Shores”: The Malaga Speaks August 24, 2023

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Mareas de Memoria: Black History & Genealogy in Puerto Rico: 25 April 2004
A special panel discussion on Black History & Genealogy in Puerto Rico with Dr. Jada Benn Torres, Melanie Maldonado Diaz & Dr. Ellen Fernandez-Sacco The post Mareas de Memoria: Black History & Genealogy in Puerto Rico: 25 April 2004 appeared first on Latino Genealogy & Beyond.
Thanks to the IOLI & El Museo del Mundillo!
“El Museo del Mundillo: Sustaining Tradition.” 11 Feb. 2024 This past February, I presented my talk, El Museo del Mundillo: Sustaining Tradition, to the International Organization of Lace Inc. For over twenty years in Moca, the Museo is an important focal point, interconnecting tejedoras, artisans, materials and cultural memory, under the directorship of Don Mokay […]
What Lies Beneath: The search for unmarked burial grounds in Hillsborough County
The emotional, physical and community efforts to commemorate ancestors can collide with the sobering reality of what happens when these sites of memory are lost The post What Lies Beneath: The search for unmarked burial grounds in Hillsborough County appeared first on Latino Genealogy & Beyond.
Lcdo. Lorenzo Oscar Caban Arocho’s Bienvenidos a Moca
A new book by Lcdo. Lorenzo Oscar Caban Arocho, Bienvenidos a Moca was just published The post Lcdo. Lorenzo Oscar Caban Arocho’s Bienvenidos a Moca appeared first on Latino Genealogy & Beyond.
The New Moses Williams Gallery at The Peale, Baltimore
Baltimore's The Peale is opening the Moses Williams Gallery on December 1st, home to the Accomplished Arts Apprenticeship program. The post The New Moses Williams Gallery at The Peale, Baltimore appeared first on Latino Genealogy & Beyond.
‘El Registro de Esclavos’: An archive you need to know’ at the 44th Annual AAHGS Conference
Taiguei (Greetings)! This has turned out to be a busy month! I finished my last article for the series on “Reconstructing Missing Volume of the Registro Central de Esclavos, pt 4” for the forthcoming volume 24 of Hereditas: Revista de la Sociedad Puertorriquena de Genealogia. I hope to submit “Looking for Lorenzo Ubiles, Alcalde de […]
Antonio Rocha’s “Voyage through Death to Life upon these Shores”: The Malaga Speaks
Yesterday evening, the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project (MPCPMP) hosted Antonio Rocha’s performance of “Voyage through Death to Life upon these Shores”: The Malaga Speaks. Here’s the description of the program, which will soon be on YouTube: The story of the Malaga, a 19th century ship built in Maine that transported captive Africans, […]
Tejer la vida: Lacemakers remembered
Some literature on mundillo and seven tejedoras (lacemakers) of Moca, Puerto Rico The post Tejer la vida: Lacemakers remembered appeared first on Latino Genealogy & Beyond.
Ubiles: AfroIndigenous Families of Northeast Puerto Rico
Who are the ancestors who held the Ubides surname in Northeast Puerto Rico? The post Ubiles: AfroIndigenous Families of Northeast Puerto Rico appeared first on Latino Genealogy & Beyond.
Friendly Village: a second grade trip
The collision between context, experience and diaspora via an elementary school text, Friendly Village. The post Friendly Village: a second grade trip appeared first on Latino Genealogy & Beyond.

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