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Searching For Our Roots has been publishing unique information and offering innovative services since 1999.

The purpose of this site is to share with you family and genealogical information available to us. The information found on this site is primarily from Puerto Rico. However, many other nationalities can be found through out the site. We hope that you find information here that fills in some blanks in your research.

This site offers a selection of both free and for members databases (clearly marked with a red key or red dollar sign $). How much does it cost to join? Pennies a day but we do NOT encourage people to subscribe without first searching the databases, reviewing the different subjects under the Navigation Menu on the left and/or visiting the Sitemap for a complete listing of what's available. Then, you can make a wiser decision.

This is an evolving project and new material is being added on a constant basis. Please do not be offended if the topic you are looking for is not here. It does not mean that it has been overlooked, it just means that I have not gotten that far yet. So if you don't find what you are looking for today, be sure and drop by again soon.

Priscilla Colon Martinez

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My parents wedding reception
September 4, 1943

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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
 

 


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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Last Month, June 2010 Uploads

2 July 2010

13 July 2010

29 July 2010

BIG last minute news

Family Search site just added
  PR, Catholic Church Records, 1645-1969

[Not all towns but enough to keep us busy]
 

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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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