Coming Out Of The Dark...puerto Rican Genealogy

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4. Coming Out Of The Dark..puerto Rican Genealogy Ancestry

Let's go back 520 years ago to the year 1494 on the island of Vieques, off the southeast coast of Puerto Rico's mainland.

Join me, Ellen Fernandez-Sacco as I research ancestors and discuss genealogy research with a Caribbean focus. Also on this site are several blog projects, linked by place and family, so feel free to explore! My roots are in Boriken, and tie together the islands of New York City and Puerto Rico. In order to research your family in Puerto Rico, it is essential that you have identified the place where they came from. You must know the city, town, or parish that they came from. A few records are indexed, but many records will require going directly to photocopied local records, which are only available by town name. It will be difficult to identify the place of origin by going directly.

Coming Out Of The Dark..puerto Rican Genealogy Sites

Tainos, the largest indigenous Caribbean population, were living a life based on the cultivation of root crops and fishing when upon the shores arrived Columbus and his fleet, having crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the second time in as many years. At that point in time everything changed.

What's written on paper has told us much about what happened next. What's written in the DNA of today's Puerto Ricans can tell us some more.

(Photo by B. Anthony Stewart/National Geographic Creative)

Coming Out Of The Dark..puerto Rican Genealogy Site

National Geographic's Genographic Project researches locations where different groups historically intermixed to create a modern day melting pot. Collaborating with 326 individuals from southeastern Puerto Rico and Vieques, the Genographic Project conducted the first genetic testing in the area with the goal to gain more information about their ancient past and learn how their DNA fits into the human family tree. The results, just published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, paint a picture of vast historic complexity dating back some 5,000 years, to the first Caribbean peoples.

Coming Out Of The Dark..puerto Rican Genealogy Society

Our Genographic team learned some key pieces of information that helped us gain more insight into the peopling of the Caribbean. Most surprisingly, we found that roughly 60% of Puerto Ricans carry maternal lineages of Native American origin. Native American ancestry, higher than nearly any other Caribbean island, originated from groups migrating to Puerto Rico from both South and Central America. Analysis of the Y Chromosome DNA found that no Puerto Rican men (0%) carried indigenous paternal lineages, while more than 80% were West Eurasian (or European).

As a white outsider looking in, I have spent decades hanging out exclusively with each group and when I hung out with black people we NEVER came in contact with Puerto Ricans, except as strangers bumping in in the hood, and hanging out with PR they NEVER hang out with blacks unless the black person is of Puerto Rican descent, in which event it. Gramps, the open source genealogy program. Used this application some time ago back in the version 2.x. Tried to resurrect it but it appeared that I need to downgrade GRAMPS, as well as GTK and all the related crap back to the old versions just to be able to import the old work files. Join one Puerto Rican and two Puerto Rican/Caucasians in their in-depth discussion that involves: personal stories, rants about prejudices and stereotypes, analyses about the current state of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans in general, and a surprisingly optimistic conclusion you won't wanna miss! This transcript has been edited for clarity.

Coming Out Of The Dark..puerto Rican Genealogy Ancestry

1. Coming Out Of The Dark..puerto Rican Genealogy Sites
2. Coming Out Of The Dark..puerto Rican Genealogy Site
3. Coming Out Of The Dark..puerto Rican Genealogy Society
4. Coming Out Of The Dark..puerto Rican Genealogy Ancestry

Let's go back 520 years ago to the year 1494 on the island of Vieques, off the southeast coast of Puerto Rico's mainland.

Join me, Ellen Fernandez-Sacco as I research ancestors and discuss genealogy research with a Caribbean focus. Also on this site are several blog projects, linked by place and family, so feel free to explore! My roots are in Boriken, and tie together the islands of New York City and Puerto Rico. In order to research your family in Puerto Rico, it is essential that you have identified the place where they came from. You must know the city, town, or parish that they came from. A few records are indexed, but many records will require going directly to photocopied local records, which are only available by town name. It will be difficult to identify the place of origin by going directly.

Coming Out Of The Dark..puerto Rican Genealogy Sites

Tainos, the largest indigenous Caribbean population, were living a life based on the cultivation of root crops and fishing when upon the shores arrived Columbus and his fleet, having crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the second time in as many years. At that point in time everything changed.

What's written on paper has told us much about what happened next. What's written in the DNA of today's Puerto Ricans can tell us some more.

(Photo by B. Anthony Stewart/National Geographic Creative)

Coming Out Of The Dark..puerto Rican Genealogy Site

National Geographic's Genographic Project researches locations where different groups historically intermixed to create a modern day melting pot. Collaborating with 326 individuals from southeastern Puerto Rico and Vieques, the Genographic Project conducted the first genetic testing in the area with the goal to gain more information about their ancient past and learn how their DNA fits into the human family tree. The results, just published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, paint a picture of vast historic complexity dating back some 5,000 years, to the first Caribbean peoples.

Coming Out Of The Dark..puerto Rican Genealogy Society

Our Genographic team learned some key pieces of information that helped us gain more insight into the peopling of the Caribbean. Most surprisingly, we found that roughly 60% of Puerto Ricans carry maternal lineages of Native American origin. Native American ancestry, higher than nearly any other Caribbean island, originated from groups migrating to Puerto Rico from both South and Central America. Analysis of the Y Chromosome DNA found that no Puerto Rican men (0%) carried indigenous paternal lineages, while more than 80% were West Eurasian (or European).

As a white outsider looking in, I have spent decades hanging out exclusively with each group and when I hung out with black people we NEVER came in contact with Puerto Ricans, except as strangers bumping in in the hood, and hanging out with PR they NEVER hang out with blacks unless the black person is of Puerto Rican descent, in which event it. Gramps, the open source genealogy program. Used this application some time ago back in the version 2.x. Tried to resurrect it but it appeared that I need to downgrade GRAMPS, as well as GTK and all the related crap back to the old versions just to be able to import the old work files. Join one Puerto Rican and two Puerto Rican/Caucasians in their in-depth discussion that involves: personal stories, rants about prejudices and stereotypes, analyses about the current state of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans in general, and a surprisingly optimistic conclusion you won't wanna miss! This transcript has been edited for clarity.

Coming Out Of The Dark..puerto Rican Genealogy Ancestry

This leads us to conclude that the Y chromosomes (inherited strictly paternally) of Tainos were completely lost in Puerto Rico, whereas the mitochondrial DNA (inherited strictly maternally) survived long and well. This stark difference has been seen in other former colonies (Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica), but the gender dichotomy appears strongest in the Spanish-speaking Americas. A look into the rest of the Puerto Rican genome using the Genographic Project's custom genotyping tool, the GenoChip, sheds some light on what may have happened during Spanish colonial times to create this ancestral imbalance.

The average Puerto Rican individual carries 12% Native American, 65% West Eurasian (Mediterranean, Northern European and/or Middle Eastern) and 20% Sub-Saharan African DNA. To help explain these frequencies in light of the maternal and paternal differences, I used basic math and inferred that it would take at least three distinct migrations of hundreds of European men each (and practically no European women) to Puerto Rico, followed by intermixing with indigenous women. It also would necessitate the complete decimation of indigenous men (but not women), to account for those numbers. These results are surprising and also shed light into a dark colonial past that, until now, had remained somewhat unclear.

These types of analyses, not just across the Caribbean or the world, but across a specific population's DNA, can have strong historical implications and at the same time help paint a new picture of world history. Learn more about how DNA can inform you about your own personal past, and help us uncover some new secrets of world history by joining The Genographic Project.