Year: 2015

Cabreja Family from Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic

I am providing this post this one time in both English and Spanish in hopes to help others in their research. I have put together a family tree on Ancestry to help anyone with family with the Cabreja last name that comes from Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic. If you do not have a paid account,…

By Anna Bayala December 29, 2015 0

Dominican Biography Dictionary for Genealogy Research

I am always seeking for documentation that isn’t easy to find and hoping that I will hit jackpot.  One of these sources that is not well known is a Dominican Historian named Rufino Martinez.  He was from Puerto Plata before leaving us in 1975 at the age of 82.  Martinez left one important dictionary that…

By Anna Bayala December 15, 2015 0

Casimero Bayala Carmona and Ana Beatriz Aleman Betancourt

Below is the wedding record of two Canary Island descendants; Casimero and Ana Beatriz. Casimero was born on 15 of May in 1846 in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico.  We know this thanks to his baptism record which can be found in Book 2A of baptism in the same church he married Ana Beatriz. Ana Beatriz…

By Anna Bayala December 12, 2015 4

PARES – Portal to Spain’s Archives – Part 2

So since I ended my prior post and didn’t go further into details, I’m going to explain one more piece that I didn’t elaborate when searching in PARES.  You can check out my prior post at the below link.  As a reminder, this entire blog works using pop-ups.  Any link I provide always opens a…

By Anna Bayala September 12, 2015 0

PARES – Portal to Spain’s Archives

So I’m finally getting around to talking about PARES -Portal to Spain’s Archives. One of the most amazing and largest archives globally as well as one of the most difficult to navigate.  Some of their archives go back as far as the 1400s.  The archives are so vast that it is said that they have…

By Anna Bayala September 11, 2015 3

Indexing: Why You Should Help Family Search

It is truly a great resource to be able to access records, view them, search for them via indexes when we visit www.familysearch.org.  I find it to be an amazing resources for all of us to be able to browse through records that would cost us thousands upon thousands of dollars as well as countless…

By Anna Bayala August 29, 2015 1