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Who’s Your Mamá? Pt 1

How to deal with documents when information doesn’t match up

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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.

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Friendly Village: a second grade trip May 2, 2023
Neumann Gandia’s Resena Historica… de Moca (1910) April 5, 2023
A Woman of Endurance, a novel by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa March 31, 2023
April 8, 1904: Jessie Walter Fewkes in Puerto Rico March 19, 2023
History Unscripted: Real Talk Around Reparations February 16, 2023
People & Property: Enslaved Ancestors sold by Rafael del Valle to Jose Genaro del Valle, Barrio Malezas, Aguadilla, 1854 January 8, 2023
Gente 1868-1872: Enslaved persons held by Felipe Yturrino y Arzua December 2, 2022

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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.
Neumann Gandia’s Resena Historica… de Moca (1910)
Two decades ago, I was in the Special Collections of U InterAmericana looking at their Herman Reichard Collection, where I photographed historian Eduardo Neumann Gandia’s Resena historica sobre la fundacion y crecimiento del municipio de Moca of 1910. Despite the homemade cover, this was one publication of at least two tracts by Neumann Gandia that […]
A Woman of Endurance, a novel by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
A Woman of Endurance, Dalma Llanos-Figueroa's incredibly moving novel, tells the story of Pola a young African woman enslaved on a plantation in mid-19th century Puerto Rico. This vivid & cinematic story is a must-read book. The post A Woman of Endurance, a novel by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa appeared first on Latino Genealogy & Beyond.
April 8, 1904: Jessie Walter Fewkes in Puerto Rico
After the Spanish-American War, the rush was on to obtain prehistoric objects from the Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands. Anthopologist Jessie Walter Fewkes assembled a large collection of stone objects. What did he do with them? The post April 8, 1904: Jessie Walter Fewkes in Puerto Rico appeared first on Latino Genealogy & Beyond.
History Unscripted: Real Talk Around Reparations
Reparations involves applications that require documentation. This can be a highly emotional process as unforeseen limitations are encountered in gathering family histories. The post History Unscripted: Real Talk Around Reparations appeared first on Latino Genealogy & Beyond.
People & Property: Enslaved Ancestors sold by Rafael del Valle to Jose Genaro del Valle, Barrio Malezas, Aguadilla, 1854
In 1854, the terms of a deed reveals the names of 19 enslaved ancestors included in a sale between cousins in mid-nineteenth century Aguadilla. The post People & Property: Enslaved Ancestors sold by Rafael del Valle to Jose Genaro del Valle, Barrio Malezas, Aguadilla, 1854 appeared first on Latino Genealogy & Beyond.
Gente 1868-1872: Enslaved persons held by Felipe Yturrino y Arzua
Following a string of land purchases, led to saying the names of 20 enslaved persons who worked and lived on Felipe Iturrino's coffee plantation in Anasco, P.R. from 1868-1870. The post Gente 1868-1872: Enslaved persons held by Felipe Yturrino y Arzua appeared first on Latino Genealogy & Beyond.
Allen Acevedo (1955-2022)
On the passing of our cousin Allen this week The post Allen Acevedo (1955-2022) appeared first on Latino Genealogy & Beyond.
The Vote of 1960: Context, Challenge, NGS & James Dent Walker
Before I start: The view from here, some context In trying to assemble a history of an organization from fragments, I’m grappling with slippage, the way that things unsaid haunt every space, how the unsaid is supposed to be gracious, but hides a different cruelty. It’s working with systems that require violence for its completion, […]
Yturrino: Looking at a collateral line
What I learned about Basques in the New World and an 18th century emigre and his descendants in Puerto Rico... The post Yturrino: Looking at a collateral line appeared first on Latino Genealogy & Beyond.

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