Afro-Indigenous Ancestry

African Ancestors, Afro-Indigenous Ancestry, Caribbean, Moca, Puerto Rico, Registro Civil, Slavery

Searching Documents for Benejam Ancestors

Afro-Indigenous Ancestry, Caribbean, Migration, Puerto Rico, Race & Ideology, Registro Civil, Resources & Research Guides, Slavery, Taino

“Y tu abuela, donde esta? An Introduction to Puerto Rican Genealogy”, Sat 9/25

African Ancestors, Afro-Indigenous Ancestry, Caribbean, Moca, Puerto Rico, Taino

Calling the Ancestors

Shouldn’t we ask questions about how beginnings are constructed? What’s the significance of an origin story? Who gets to tell about the dawning of a deeper historical consciousness among people? For whom does this story matter? Stories are containers for memory, with purpose.

African Ancestors, Afro-Indigenous Ancestry, Caribbean, Puerto Rico, Race & Ideology, Slavery, Violence

Tonight: 4/28: A History Unraveled: Slavery and the Babilonia Family

Afro-Indigenous Ancestry, Caribbean, Puerto Rico, Race & Ideology, Taino

The Many Names of Telesforo Carrillo (1845-1920)

The search for my great great grandfather began with a fiction of sorts, created by his death certificate of 1920. Here the gap between who he was when he started and who he was at the end of his life widens.

family photographs
African Ancestors, Afro-Indigenous Ancestry, Family, Race & Ideology, Resources & Research Guides, Slavery

Seven Key Principles of AfroIndigenous Genealogy

Afro-Indigenous Ancestry, Black ProGen LIVE, Caribbean, Race & Ideology, Uncategorized, Violence

A Bonilla Family Tree: Context, Resistance & Reading Indigeneity

African Ancestors, Afro-Indigenous Ancestry, Black ProGen LIVE, Civil War, Slavery, Violence

A Constant Threat of Erasure Pt 3: Claude Neal & the Rippling Out of the Civil War, Jackson County Florida

African Ancestors, Afro-Indigenous Ancestry, Puerto Rico, Registro Civil, Slavery

African Ancestors in San German: Juan Tomas Gandulla and his Family

Afro-Indigenous Ancestry, Black ProGen LIVE, Caribbean, Cementeries, Moca, Registro Civil

La última parada (The last stop): A photo from 1929

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