When working on Puerto Rican genealogy, many of us in this digital age go online to websites such as MyHeritage, Ancestry, or FamilySearch, plug in our ancestors' names, and hope to hit the genealogical jackpot, and occasionally we do! Since Puerto Ricans have been a part of a U.S. territory since 1898 and U.S. citizens since 1917, our appearance begins on census records in 1920 and the WWI and WWII Draft Registration Cards. This makes tracing our ancestors a bit easier. Coupled with the Puerto … [Read more...]