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Antonio Sotomayor, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Librarian Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Challenges to Caribbean Family History and Genealogy: Archives, Sources, and Oral History in Puerto Rico . Antonio Sotomayor, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Librarian Latin American and Caribbean Studies University of Illinois. Puerto Rican Genealogies.

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Antonio Sotomayor, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Librarian Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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  1. Challenges to Caribbean Family History and Genealogy: Archives, Sources, and Oral History in Puerto Rico. Antonio Sotomayor, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Librarian Latin American and Caribbean Studies University of Illinois

  2. Puerto Rican Genealogies RamírezBrau, Enrique. Orígenespuertorriqueños(Don Antonio Ramírez de Arellano y susdescendientes) Del año 1653 al 1853. San Juan: ImprentaBaldrich, 1947. Gaudier, Martín. Genealogias puertorriqueñas; partidas de bautismos y biografías. Puerto Rico, 1963-1964. ReichardSapia, Rafael. Collection of Genealogy Notes. n.d. (b. 1887-?) Colón Gaulden, Edmund. Colón families of the seventeenth century in Puerto Rico: Their roots and notable descendants. Orange, California, 1988. Stark, David. “Parish Registers as a Window to the Past: Reconstructing the Demographic Behavior of the Enslaved Population in Eighteenth- Century Arecibo, Puerto Rico.” Colonial Latin American Historical Review. 15:1 (2006): 1-30. Stark, David. “The Family Tree Is Not Cut: Marriage among Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico.” New West Indian Guide. 76:1&2 (2002): 23-45.

  3. Elite and Urban Men Elba Armstrong Mejía de Blila, Elba and Luis A Villares Armstrong. Familia: La historia de los Armstrong and Puerto Rico. Caguas, P.R.: Publicaciones LV, 2000. Huerga, Alvaro. La familia Ponce de León. San Juan: Academia Puertorriqueña de la Historia: Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y del Caribe: Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, 2009. Barragán Landa, Juan José. Los Benítez: Raíces de una familia hacedora de historia. San Juan: J.J. Barragán Landa, 1996. Lluch Mora, Francisco. Catálogo de inscripciones demográfico-sacramentales y de otra índole del linaje puertorriqueño Ortiz de la Renta. Mayagüez, PR: Fundación Juan C. Ortiz de la Renta Lugo, 1976. Mayoral Barnés, Manuel. Ponce y su historial geopolítico-económico y cultural: Con el árbol genealógico de sus pobladores. Ponce, Puerto Rico, 1946. Solivan de Acosta, Jaime A. Cinco familias linajudas en Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico: Centro Gráfico del Caribe, 1988.

  4. Other works Small publishers, or privately printed Non-academic Names and dates Unverified data No socio-historical context, but individual accomplishments.

  5. The Sotomayor Family: A Case Study 10+ years studying my Sotomayor family. Don Juan de Sotomayor Hernández (1679-1791), 7th or 8th grandfather. Different branches of family tree (paternal and maternal), to the 18thcentury. Brick Walls

  6. Challenges for Researchers Name spellings & compound names: Sotomayor; Soto; Soto Mayor; Soto Maior. (Lorenzo de Acevedo; Lorenzo; Acevedo; Lorenzo Acevedo; Luciano de Fuentes; VélezBorrero; Hernández del Río; etc.) Parish Archives: protective, limiting, or outright denial. Uncatalogued and disorganized sources. Demographic Register & General Archive: Closed access and lack of interest Sources in other places: Seville, Madrid, Segovia, Washington, Mexico, Santo Domingo, London, Holland… Brick Walls Lack of sources pre-late 18thcentury: humidity, fires, earthquakes, theft, flooding, etc.

  7. Alternatives for Recent Genealogy Online genealogy groups: Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Genealogía, Sociedad de AncestrosMocanos, etc. Census in Ancestry.com Familysearch.org Oral History

  8. Alternatives for Deep Genealogy Online genealogy groups: SociedadPuertorriqueña de Genealogía. Oral History Socio-historical analysis Sources in other places: Seville, Madrid, Segovia, Washington, Mexico, Santo Domingo, London, Holland… Genetic Genealogy FamilyTreeDNA.com

  9. Further Readings: Social History GelpíBaiz, Elsa. Siglo en blanco: Estudio de la economíaazucareraen Puerto Rico, siglo XVI. San Juan: La Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2007. López Cantos, Angel. Historia de Puerto Rico, 1650-1700. Sevilla: Publicaciones de la Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla, 1975. ______. Los puertorriqueños: Mentalidades y actitudes, siglo XVIII. San Juan: EdicionesPuerto, 2001. Silvestrini-Pacheco and María de los Angeles Castro Arroyo. “Sources for the Study of Puerto Rican History.” Latin American Research Review, 16, 2 (1981): 156-171. Sued Badillo, Jalil. El Dorado Borincano: La Economia De La Conquista 1510- 1550. San Juan: Ediciones Puerto, 2001. Vila Vilar, Enriqueta. Historia de Puerto Rico, 1600-1650. Sevilla: Publicaciones de la Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla, 1974.

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