PUERTO RICO GENEALOGY

Es una iniciativa privada no gubernamental que busca dar acceso a la información relacionada a Puerto Rico localizada en archivos públicos y privados. Nuestra Misión es la democratización y el rápido acceso a la información. Contrario a los archivos tradicionales los cuales tienen el importante objetivo de conservar los fondos que albergan el nuestro se basa en la diseminación de la información a través de plataformas digitales y la web.

The FamilySearch Research Wiki is a free, online genealogical guide created and maintained by FamilySearch, a non-profit organization. It contains links to genealogy databases, websites, other resources, research strategies, and genealogical guidance to assist in the search for your ancestors. Articles included are locality pages for countries around the world and topic pages that include pertinent genealogy record types explaining how to use the record, what it contains, and how to find it.

Your research on genealogía puertorriqueña (Puerto Rican genealogy) may take you to different Divisions and Research Libraries of The New York Public Library, and to collections farther afield. This page offers catalog links and selected resources. Click the images on this page to learn more about NYPL Research Libraries and Divisions that hold materials on Puerto Rico.

The Spanish Archives Portal (PARES) is the main platform used to disseminate Spain's Historical Document Heritage, created and managed by the National Archives Department of the Ministry of Culture.

It contains information sheets and digitised images of the historical documents held in the National Archives. However, given the enormous volume of documents, not all of the documentation held in our archives is currently available on PARES. There is an increasing amount of content available on PARES as archivists continue their work to identify, describe and digitise the documents.

Sixty-seven miscellaneous slave documents listing individual slaves, their physical characteristics, and ownership. Most of the slaves belonged to smaller households in the northeast part of the island, and many were young children.

ShipIndex.org simplifies vessel research. Whether you’re a genealogist, a maritime historian, a researcher, or just curious, we can help you learn more about the ships that interest you. We tell you which maritime resources, such as books, journals, magazines, newspapers, CD-ROMs, websites, and online databases mention the ships that interest you. We enhance these references by noting which ones include illustrations or crew and passenger lists, and where you can find or purchase the resource.

The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in slave ships, and hundreds of thousands more who were trafficked within the Americas. Explore where they were taken, the numerous rebellions that occurred, the horrific loss of life during the voyages, the identities and nationalities of the perpetrators, and much more.

Ancestry message boards contain over 25 million posts on more than 198,000 boards.

Ancestry message boards contain over 25 million posts on more than 198,000 boards.

The Digital Library of the Caribbean is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean & circum-Caribbean.

The Early Caribbean Digital Archive is an open access collection of pre-twentieth-century Caribbean texts, maps, and images. Texts include travel narratives, novels, poetry, natural histories, and diaries that have not been brought together before as a single collection focused on the Caribbean. The materials in the archive are primarily authored and published by Europeans, but the ECDA aims to use digital tools to "remix" the archive and foreground the centrality and creativity of enslaved and free African, Afro-creole, and Indigenous peoples in the Caribbean world.

Puerto Rico Genealogy (Hijos de Coamo, Puerto Rico) contains Catholic Church Records from 1645 through 1969. These Catholic Church records created by parishes in Puerto Rico include baptisms, confirmations, parish censuses, marriages, deaths, and indexes. This website is created for novice and advanced researchers to assist you in locating your ancestors’ records and history. In addition, it includes transcriptions donated by volunteers and personal research of individuals from Puerto Rico.

History Hub is a research support community for everyone, including genealogists, historians, and citizen archivists.

The Puerto Rico family history research page lists data collections relevant to Puerto Rico.

Start your search here to find ancestors originating from Puerto Rico and to research historical records pertaining to Puerto Rico.

Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials or add photos, virtual flowers and a note to a loved one's memorial. Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the world.

The Boletín mercantil de Puerto Rico first appeared on March 2, 1839, published as the Boletín Instructivo y mercantil de Puerto Rico, in San Juan. The Puerto Rico scholar Antonio S. Pedreira, in the voluminous El periodismo en Puerto Rico, underlined its importance as “a newspaper of transcendental significance in the history of newspapers in Puerto Rico”. The Boletín mercantil is regarded as one of the most important newspapers, second to the Gaceta, published in Puerto Rico during the last of the four centuries of Spanish domination on the island.

The Boletín mercantil published articles, news and advertisements regarding technology and inventions. There are plenty of drawings and photographs of technological devices within the industrial context, making this a very important source for the study of the history of technology both within Puerto Rico and worldwide.

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1756-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

La Correspondencia de Puerto Rico, a reflection of La Correspondencia de España, was founded by Ramón B. López in San Juan on December 18, 1890. Priced at one cent, it appealed to the general public and quickly became the largest circulating daily newspaper in Puerto Rico with a print run of 5,000 copies a day. Due to its popularity, it was conferred the sarcastic nickname of “El periódico de las cocineras”(the housewife's newspaper). La Correspondencia de Puerto Rico is considered the first daily news report on the island accessible to a wider public.

La Democracia, founded and published by the Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician Luis Muñoz Rivera, was first published in Ponce in 1890. The newspaper supported Puerto Rico's liberal Autonomist Party, which sought broader rights under the Spanish Crown. La Democracia reported on various political themes, such as internal situations of delegates and the demands of the people. It also maintained communication with other newspapers and included proposals of court deputies, reports of Spanish treaties with other countries, and news of the Cuban revolution. La Democracia opposed the imposition of taxes on sugar and other products, and the prohibition of coffee exports to Cuba; it also published complaints from San Juan merchants and reported on property repossessions. La Democracia supported economic improvements on the island through the creation of the Farmers Association, the Agriculture Bank, and the Santurce Exposition, which promoted the sale of local merchandise.

La Gaceta offers detailed information about the colonial government in Puerto Rico including reports from the governor, treasury, customs, commerce, internal revenues, postal services, royal decrees, and political appointments. It contains unique and valuable data collected through diverse population censuses held in the island, such as the race censuses from 1876 and 1881. Education was another important topic frequently covered in the newspaper. La Gaceta published a census with the number of public and private schools and teachers by municipalities. By-laws and other official documents were provided including information about students' gender, social and economic level, type of schools, and other statistical data.

The self-proclaimed "Diario de la tarde" ("the afternoon daily"), the newspaper El Imparcial (San Juan, Puerto Rico) was one of the main witnesses to Puerto Rican and international history of the 20th century. It began publication on November 1, 1918 and frontpage headlines included the end of the WWI, the actions of the Bolsheviks, their allies and their enemies after the Russian Revolution of 1917, along with the reactions and stances taken by the United States on these international issues. Much of the global news reported came from international services or correspondents. Additionally, El Imparcial offered translations of news content originally generated in English.

El Mundo (San Juan, Puerto Rico) printed its first issue on February 17, 1919. This Spanish-language publication self-identified as the "Diario de la mañana" ("the daily"). In its first years, El Mundo's content primarily focused on providing informaton from the Americas and Europe, frequently including news services from the United States.

The paper covered Puerto Rican politics, the economy, and daily life in the villages. It also reported information about strikes in the sugarcane and tobacco industries, the 1918 influenza epidemic, and struggles for women's rights. It covered local elections, includign the 1920 elections in Puerto Rico for the positions of Senate, House of Representatives, and mayoralties.

Founded in 1919, El Mundo was a respected, conservative newspaper from Puerto Rico and was widely considered a key source for news until it ceased in 1990. The paper strived to live up to its slogan "Verdad y Justicia" (Truth and Justice). Key topics covered by the newspaper include industrialization of Puerto Rican society, the Great Depression, territorial relations with the United States including citizenship and activities of independence movements such as the Macheteros and FALN, the rise of the Popular Democratic Party, the Ponce massacre, the Ley de la Mordaza (Gag Law) and more.

The collection of Puerto Rico is principally that of, Jose Luis Rodriguez of Cheshire, Ct., originally from Guanica. That collection has taken over 35 years to build and covers all types of collectibles from Puerto Rico. He is married to Aida for 39 years and is a full time antiques dealer specializing in paper antiques, postcards, photos and historical ephemera.

¡Bienvenides a Archivo Negro! La aportación histórica de Movimiento Anansé Inc. para rescatar la memoria visual de nuestra negritud desde las familias, fotógrafes y artistas que se han dedicado a documentar nuestra cultura. Te invitamos a explorar y conectarte con el primer archivo que visibiliza a las personas negras en y desde Puerto Rico. ¡Adelante!

The Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection consists of photographs produced and gathered by Frank G. Carpenter (1855-1924) and his daughter Frances (1890-1972) to illustrate his writings on travel and world geography. Carpenter's works helped popularize cultural anthropology and geography in the early years of the twentieth century.

Trace your roots for FREE with our searchable database containing thousands of identified and mystery photos for genealogy enthusiasts looking for long-lost family. Anyone who finds a photo of a direct ancestor that is owned by the archive will receive the photo for free.

Puden publicar toda clase de fotos histricas y videos de Puerto Rico ayer y hoy.

HaChayim HaYehudim Jewish Photo Library is an archive of images from the Jewish world. Jewish communities in the Caribbean featured include Aruba, Barbados, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Eustatius, St. Thomas, and Trinidad.

Harry A. Franck (1881-1962) was a University of Michigan graduate (1903), avid traveler, and veteran of both world wars. He wrote thirty-three travel books describing Europe, South and Central America, China, Japan, and many other places. His most popular books include A Vagabond Journey Around the World (1910) and Zone Policeman 88 (1913). His books routinely featured photographs he took during his journeys: landscapes, street scenes, working people with the tools of their trade, portraits, and snapshots.

We are a team of dedicated film archivists who aim to help you produce the best archive content for your project.

Our collections are vast and varied - the sum of over fifty years of service to production and to film archiving. Our footage starts around 1895 and we cover the places and people of the 20th century comprehensively and globally. Our holdings are mostly documentary with the addition of behind the scenes Hollywood, Bollywood and a special collection of pioneer film makers. It is with great pride that our source material is still on celluloid for quality and that filmic texture. Our films are housed in purpose built film vaults and our staff expert in their field.

Hired by the FSA in 1940 as an itinerant photographer, Jack Delano was assigned in 1941 to the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Delano captured moments of daily life on the islands in both black and white and color.

Mary Evans Picture Library licenses images for use in books, newspapers, exhibitions, websites and all manner of other media. Our images cover a broad range of topics, with the overarching themes of history and film. Our range, however, extends far beyond most people's perception of historical pictures, to include areas such as fashion, design, society and, uniquely, the paranormal.

The Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs is a singular collection of more than 3,500 historical images from 34 countries including Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad. This visual record contains studio portraits, landscapes and tourist views and brings to life the changing economies, environments and communities that emerged post-emancipation. The Collection includes nearly every photographic format available during the years 1840 to 1940, including prints, postcards, daguerreotypes, lantern slides, albums, and stereographs.

This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

My name is Tom Lehman. My parents worked in church service projects in Ethiopia from 1948 to 1950 and in Puerto Rico from 1952-1956 and 1959-1961.

In late 2005 I bought a slide scanner, scanned the slides my father had taken while in Ethiopia and Puerto Rico to make copies for family members. I posted some of them to Flickr, an Internet photo sharing site. The reaction amazed me.

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The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 35 years ago and contains more than 200,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, globes, wall maps, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from around 1550 to the present.

Based in South Portland, ME, Historic Map Works, LLC is an Internet company formed to create a historic digital map database of North America and the world. Drawing on the largest physical collection of American property atlases of its type, it is our aim to be the single best online destination for map enthusiasts and researchers alike.

Our mission is to give old maps a new life in the online world via the Old Maps Online search catalog that allows visitors to explore and discover the beauty of historical maps depicting a past geographical place of their interest.

The Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL) Map Collection website is archived as of 2021 and no longer being updated. Links to external sites may no longer work as expected. Please visit the Texas GeoData portal and Collections portal for map files and the UTL Map Collections LibGuide for additional information.

El Archivo es el custodio del patrimonio histórico documentado de la Ciudad Señorial, Ponce.

The House of Spain in Puerto Rico is a non-profit institution dedicated to the dissemination and conservation of Spanish culture in Puerto Rico.

Founded in 1973 by a coalition of students, faculty, and activists, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) is the largest university-based research institute, library, and archive dedicated to the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. We provide support to students, scholars, artists, and members of the community at large across and beyond New York. We produce original research, films, books, and educational tools and are the home of The Centro Journal—the premiere academic journal of Puerto Rican Studies. Our aim is to create actionable and accessible scholarship to strengthen, broaden, and reimagine the field of Puerto Rican studies.

Descubierto a principios del siglo XX; este parque nacional figura entre los más importantes yacimientos arqueológicos del Caribe. El parque indígena, consta de diez bateyes rodeados por una variedad de piedras con petroglifos.

Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre (ICC) is a non-profit, independent, educational organization recognized by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. ICC was established in 1999 with its axiom being “Celebrating unity in cultural diversity in the Caribbean.” It is dedicated to publishing two magazines every year – a Divali souvenir magazine, and an Indian Arrival Day commemorative magazine. ICC is primarily committed to the production of information about people, issues and events affecting Hindus and Indians in multi-ethnic Trinidad and the Caribbean.

The mission of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (ICP) is to investigate, preserve, promote and disseminate Puerto Rican culture in its diversity and complexity. With the memory and promise of culture, the different levels, sectors, ages and interests of the community create the set of ways of life, customs and artistic manifestations that identify us as a country. The ICP exists to preserve and disseminate this knowledge, spread our talent internationally and enrich the love of one's own.

The Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project (MPCPMP) is a non-profit tax-exempt organization established in 2011 to honor the two million captive Africans who perished during the transatlantic crossing known as the Middle Passage and the ten million who survived to build the Americas.

Old San Juan is one of the most important ports in American maritime history. Now it has this maritime museum where you can experience firsthand the history of navigation throughout time.

In the Puerto Rico Historic Buildings Drawings Society (PRHBDS) website you can find collections of architectural drawings, photographs and information about more than 1,200 structures and historic sites in Puerto Rico.

Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Genealogía has more than three hundred active members in Puerto Rico and abroad that have joined forces to investigate their beloved Borincan roots.

Known as El Corazón Cultural del Barrio, Taller Puertorriqueño is a community-based cultural organization that uses art to promote development within its community and the Latinx Diaspora and build bridges to the Greater Philadelphia region.

Founded in 1973 by a coalition of students, faculty, and activists, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) is the largest university-based research institute, library, and archive dedicated to the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. We provide support to students, scholars, artists, and members of the community at large across and beyond New York. We produce original research, films, books, and educational tools and are the home of The Centro Journal—the premiere academic journal of Puerto Rican Studies. Our aim is to create actionable and accessible scholarship to strengthen, broaden, and reimagine the field of Puerto Rican studies.

The title of our project, DominiRican, pays homage to the shared diasporic experiences of Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and people of both Dominican and Puerto Rican descent. It engages the cultural productions and intellectual processes that emerge from these shared identities and experiences in the United States. This project is dedicated to mapping literary and cultural productions that emerge out of the coexistence of Dominican and Puerto Rican diaspora communities in the U.S.. Mapping takes on a dual mfeaning here as we are tracing the origins and movement - across the Caribbean Sea between DR and PR - and through the Atlantic Ocean as Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, and DominiRicans travel and migrate to the United States and also participate in back and forth movements throughout these places that contribute to transcultural changes, community building, intellectual exchanges in scholarship and literature, and identity formations expressed through literature, food, music, dance, art, and visual culture. Furthermore, we digitally map the locations of DominiRican communities, spaces of visual art or of historical relevance, institutions, and of relevant people (birth places/cemeteries/memorials) to illustrate how ideas and practices have moved beyond borders and share this story.

The Hispanic Genealogical Society Of New York is a non-profit public service and educational organization, headquartered in New York City, where our volunteer staff organizes meetings, plan projects, provide instructional forums and host seminars.

The society is still working towards establishing a library and research center in the borough of Manhattan, where their extensive collection of reference publications and research materials will be housed.

The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture (NMPRAC) is devoted to the promotion, integration and advancement of Puerto Rican arts and culture, presenting exhibitions and programming created to enhance the visibility and importance of the rich Puerto Rican arts tradition.

Located in Humboldt Park, in the heart of Chicago’s Puerto Rican community, the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture (NMPRAC) is the only self-standing museum in the nation devoted to showcasing Puerto Rican arts and cultural exhibitions year-round.

Known as El Corazón Cultural del Barrio, Taller Puertorriqueño is a community-based cultural organization that uses art to promote development within its community and the Latinx Diaspora and build bridges to the Greater Philadelphia region.

History and Genealogy of the Babilonia Family of Moca, Puerto Rico and associated lineages.

Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic and genealogical journey through my family history.

A genealogy blog sharing stories and pictures of the Cabán family.

Ancestors of Dr. José Fernando PASCUAL y BARALT

Join Ellen Fernandez-Sacco as she researches ancestors and discusses genealogy research with a Caribbean focus.

A platform to jump off from into your journey of family history that passed through Puerto Rico.

Teresa Vega shares musings on her tri-racial roots in the United States, Puerto Rico and Madagascar.

Join Marian Giannatti as she journeys to untangle her family roots in Puerto Rico.

y la Familia website was launched on August 1, 2002 and is dedicated to the descendants of Florencio Rivera Maldonado with the goal of connecting family and friends worldwide, promoting and building family tradition, and providing a platform for sharing family news and history.

Finding biological parents is one of the most challenging, and rewards projects we get to work on at Legacy Tree Genealogists. 

In this week's episode, we hear from a Legacy Tree client as she shares her story about searching for her family in Puerto Rico. 

Listen in to see how her story took a few turns along to way but ended with her fully discovering her past. 

Dr. Fernandez-Sacco's recent article is about interviews, enslavement, testimony, and the communities involved in a 1945 interview by the historian Luis Diaz Soler with Leoncia Lassalle then 112 years old, and her 85-year old daughter, Juana Rodriguez Lasalle's experiences under bondage. Fernandez-Sacco offers a context for the account, traces their family history, considers the multiple contexts for this narrative, the limits on archives, and how historical knowledge is made as we do genealogy that engages slavery & life post-emancipation.

The Island Archives Podcast is an audio series created to honor the Caribbean heroes/sheroes of the past and present and highlight their immeasurable contributions in different areas/disciplines. We feature their achievements by retelling their stories in an interesting, engaging, and insightful way by blending humor, history and highlights.

“Rematriating the Ancestors” welcomes our first guest to the Rematriating Borikén Podcast, Melanie Maldonado Díaz of PROPA, Puerto Rican Organization for the Performing Arts. Melanie traces her personal journey towards her cultural, genealogy and ancestral work. We discuss how she arrived at her powerful project Africa Habla en Mi, connecting our ancestors to the continent of Africa, to her recent collaboration with the Middle Passage Ceremonies/ Port Markers Project.

Throughout this presentation you will learn how to use your personal family stories in conjunction with records from both the United States and Puerto Rico to begin building your family tree. The presenter will use personal stories, photos, and family documents to walk you through this process and teach you tips and tricks to unlocking your Puerto Rican genealogy.

Learn how to trace your Afro-Caribbean ancestors from the West Indies, including Barbados, Jamaica, and other places. Presented by Sharon Wilkins, President of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society - New York.