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The purpose of this site is to share with you family and genealogical
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primarily from Puerto Rico. However, many other nationalities can be found
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Priscilla Colon Martinez
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My parents wedding reception
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Boricua
Soy jaba'o de nacimiento
Nacido en tierra antillana
Me codeo con el blanco
Y con el negro bailo en jaranas.
Mi padre llegó de Asturias
Y mi madre, de allá de África
Y en esta bendita tierra
Unierón los dos el alma.
Y de ellos nací yo
Con pelo grifo y tez clara
Para codearme con el blanco
Y con el negron, bailar en jaranas...
Poema inédito de:
Pedro Rivera Atanasio
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Membership News!
Good news for all of us. Because the expenses to run
this site increased just a little more than last year and your
support continues to be so great, we are able to keep the
yearly dues the same as last year. That is membership dues for this
year 2010 will remain the same at $15.00/year which is less
than 5 cents a day.
And now, that the holidays are behind us, let's get back to
work. Good luck in finding your ancestors this year.
Priscilla Colon Martinez
8 Jan 2010
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What's New |
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Last Month, June
2010 Uploads
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Historia
del Obispado de Ponce
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3 new
records for the Ancestors/Researchers section
- Real
Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía
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Certificados de Nacimientos de PR
- The Downsizing Dilemma! Read more. . .
- San
Mateo de Cangrejos
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Great News!!!
More towns have been added to the
Family Search Site.
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Our members
can review the following files:
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Cementerio Municipal Antiguo (El Polvorín),
Manatí - Visit No. 4
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Asamblea Municipal, Arecibo
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Bo. Ceiba, Humacao,
1910
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Latest photos added
to the 1910 Census Project
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Comerciantes y Agricultores, Sabana Grande, 1853
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Alcaldes, Humacao
[updated by adding mayors from 1721 to
1898]
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Partido Español Incondicional, Ciales, 1887
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Hospital Municipal, Bayamón,
1920
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Baptismal Records of the Chevere Surname,
1894-1923
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Ayuntamiento de Juana Díaz, 1874
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Asamblea Municipal, Patillas
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Nómina de Empleados Públicos, Humacao, 1873
- Asamblea Municipal, Caguas
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Alcaldes y Consejales, 1874
2 July
2010
13 July
2010
29 July
2010
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1935 U.S. Federal Census
My friend posted the following message on a mailing list that says
it all:
The 1935 Census is NARA publication
number M1881 and there are 88 rolls of microfilm. I have been
e-mailing Ancestry.com and Footnote.com at least once a year
recommending they add this to their collection. Footnote.com is
more likely to add it as they have some agreement with NARA to
make records available online.
I think if more do what I do they may eventually do it. They are a
business after all and do not add anything unless they see it will
attract new customers. If we all go to
http://www.footnote.com/#feedbacklink
and click on "Leave Feedback"
we can show there is an interest for NARA Pub# M1881 .
If everyone who reads this note leave a message on
Footnote.com Feedback and/or in
Ancestry.com Feedback, that would
increase the possibility of them uploading the census to their
site and of us finding our ancestors.
Come on, a few minutes of your time might increase our chances of
eventually getting the census online. Please help us in this
endeavor as we continue with ours.
Thank You.
Priscilla Colon Martinez
25 Mar 2010
 The
Downsizing Dilemma!
To downsize or not to downsize, that is the question. When is the
right time to downsize and for what reasons? How do you downsize
your belongings? What do you want as the final disposition of your
belongings? And a whole bunch of other related questions is what I
am personally considering now that I am reaching the big 65.
I already downsize (although I admit not much) when I retired back
in 2003 to make moving from the states to PR a little easier. In
this my second time around, the reason is age and the need to make
my home easier to clean by having less clutter and stuff around. I
don’t want to wait ‘till I am gone so that my memories and life-long
belongings end up in the trash.
I already asked my nieces and nephews to come and get whatever
family pictures they would like as well as LP’s, cassettes, family
movies and such.
As for my genealogy stuff, well not one in the family cares for it
so I will have to find a home for that stuff later on. For now, I
intend to sell some but not all of my over 500+ collection of
books as well as the 1910 US Census collection in microfilm and
CD’s that I no longer need.
This is just a heads up of what is to come as I have not yet
decided whether to sell them on E-bay or through the portal or for
that matter which books to sell. By the next time you visit the
site, I will have made the decision and then you will know how to
go about getting what might be of interest to you.
Feel free to contact me on this if you have any thoughts. Also,
let me assure you that this has nothing to do with the running of
the site as I am still strong and able to keep it running and
fresh with new data 3-4 times a month. So, there is
for quite a while yet.
Priscilla Colon Martinez
22 June 2010
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