Radiant Roots, Boricua Branches

Musings on My Tri-racial Black and Puerto Rican Ancestry.

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LatinX, Caribbean, and Cape Verdean Genealogy Blogs

Here is a list of blogs that are focused on Latino, Caribbean, and Cape Verdean genealogy blogs. This page is presently under construction.

 

  • [Genealogy Under Construction]
  • Latino Genealogy and Beyond
  • Babilonia Family History
  • The Creola Genealogist
  • Tracing African Roots (Great overall DNA blog about the Africa Diaspora)
  • Caribbean Roots
  • A Parcel of Ribbons
  • 200 Years in Paradise
  • Puerto Rican Genealogy
  • Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog
  • Genealogia Nuestra
  • Across the Seas
  • Caban Tales
  • Cape Verdean History Unearthed
  • Cabo Verde Raizes
  • Maroon Connection
  • My Jamaican Family
  • Behind the Dash Genealogy
  • Cultura Campesina de Noreste Dominicano
  • Sambumbia-Dominican-Caribbean Genetics and Geneology
  • Untangling My Puerto Rican Roots
  • The Rivera Family/ Y La Familia 
  • Colleen Greene (Hispanic Genealogy)
  • Mexican Genealogy
  • Caribbean Genealogy

About Me

Twitter: @rrbbgenealogy
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I have been researching my family history/genealogy for almost 20 years. However, it wasn’t until 2010 that I began to research my family history in depth using a combination of traditional genealogy as well as genetic genealogy. I have been able to trace several of my maternal mixed-race lines back to colonial New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia. The ethnic admixture of these lines is a mix of West African, Malagasy, Native American and European people and represent some of the earliest settlers in this country along with Native Americans who have always been here. It has always been my goal to document my family history the way it was experienced by my ancestors. My research specialties include both African-American and Puerto Rican Genealogy in general, Slavery and Free Blacks in the Northeast, the Afro-Dutch Cultural Legacy in NY and NJ, the NY-Madagascar Slave Trade in the Late 1600-Early 1700s, the Historical Importance of African-American Burial Grounds as well as Genetic Genealogy for Beginners.

I have Bachelors Degrees in Anthropology and Asian Studies from Bowdoin College and previously worked as an adjunct professor in Cultural Anthropology while attending CUNY Graduate School and University Center’s doctoral program in Anthropology. My background in cultural anthropology has helped me research my ancestral roots. I started my blog, www.radiantrootsboricuabranches.com, to share my genealogy research on both my maternal mixed race African-American side as well as my Puerto Rican paternal side. I am a proud member of both the NJ and NY Chapters of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAGHS) and a BlackProGenLIVE  panelist. I am also the co-administrator of FamilyTree DNA’s Malagasy Roots Project along with CeCe Moore of PBS’s Finding Your Roots and DNA Detectives since 2014. For the past several years, I have given talks at public libraries in the Greater NY/NJ/CT area as well as local genealogy groups.

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