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  • La última parada (The last stop): A photo from 1929
    Coffin for the father of Balbino Gonzalez, Moca, September 1929 While in Puerto Rico over a decade ago, I bought copies of old photographs at Tienda Cesto in Aguadilla. Part of the store was given over to tables with sets of binders, each containing photographs from different municipalities. There were a small number of images […]
  • On the Other Side: Loreta Janeta Velazquez (1842 -1897)
    My career has differed materially from that of most women; and some things that I have done have shocked persons for whom I have every respect, however much my ideas of propriety may differ from theirs.    Loreta Janeta Velazquez, (1876)  The Woman in Battle.  On our recent Black ProGen episode on Civil War Pension […]
  • Some Amazing Things You Can Learn in the Registro Civil
    If you’re doing Latinx genealogy tied to the Spanish empire, you’ll eventually hit a version of the Registro Civil, the Civil Register for births, deaths and marriages that keep track of the population. Depending on the country, these volumes of vital records begin in different years, and are incredible sources of information… depending on how […]
  • Paul Rucker: Stories from the Trees
    This morning I sit with the work of Paul Rucker, who manifests the realities behind terminology, and the coercive, body destroying violence that is a part of the legacy of white supremacy. His strategic use of sound and image in a multi-disciplinary performance reanimates imagery to memorialize the nearly 4800 African Americans lynched between 1882-1968. […]
  • The escape of Juan de la Rosa: A Runaway Slave Ad from Moca, December 1842
    “Anuncios” In December 1842, after much planning, Juan de la Rosa finally decided to do something about his situation. He took an old hat, the clothes on his back, and left the plantation of dona Andrea Gonzalez de la Cruz in the rural Barrio of Capa in Moca. This was maroon resistance, and the news […]
  • Can Genealogy Be Racist? Identity, Roots & the Question of Proof
    Oral history, Alex Haley’s Roots and the question of proof Change takes time. It can feel glacial when looking at the time frame for the development of genealogy for people of color in the US. As Nicka Smith recently reminded us in the video of Ep20b of BlackProGenLIVE on Talks Diversity in Genealogy and Family […]
  • Stories in a Box: Caja 1289, Slavery and the Hernandez family
    In reviewing a transcription of notary documents, I came across a pair of Hernandez sisters whose sale of property in mid century Aguadilla included 15 enslaved ancestors in total. What can we learn about the context of their lives? And can these details extend out to make connections to descendants today? I’ve gone over several […]
  • Gaining Freedom: gleaning narratives from Caja 1444, Moca, Puerto Rico, 1848-1854
    Cartas de emancipación: Letters of Freedom As three historians of Cuban slavery recently wrote,”Los notarios eran parte de este sistema de “escribir la esclavitud.” — Notaries were part of this system of “writing enslavement”, literally creating the legal structures through documents that recorded and controlled the lives and movements of over 51,000 enslaved POC by […]
  • Tree Climbing With DNA Cousins: Family Across Several Continents
    If your Puerto Rican ancestor is on this list, then we’re related! Since the mid-2000s, my digital family is expanding, and I’m enjoying some new connections. I tested my autosomal DNA on 23&Me, Ancestry and FamilyTree DNA, uploaded to MyHeritage, DNA.Land and am faced with hundreds, well, since the original blogpost, it’s now thousands of […]
  • African Ancestors in Moca, Puerto Rico, 1852-1859
    Context of a transcription: African Ancestors in the first book of deaths Back in 2006, I was researching mundillo (lacemaking) in Moca, and at the same time, learning more about a shared family history that ultimately led me to explore enslaved ancestors, African and Indigenous ancestors. Their strength and perseverance in the face of difficult […]

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