I’ve finally submitted the materials, tables and text to accompany Part 3 of the Missing Registro Central de Esclavo volume […]
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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.
Have you ever wanted to know more about the woman behind the only slave narrative out of Puerto Rico? On
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Approaching your brick wall? Here are some suggestions for thinking about context, surnames & working with documents.
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.
All of this effort, excellence, and memory can’t be crammed into the shortest month of the year– nor can it be recounted on one day.
What’s in a name? How many Jose, Maria and Juans have you come across in your tree? Frequently repeated first
My latest blog post, is a Guest Post: A Bonilla Family Tree, is about the reading the larger context of