Dis a Fi Mi History Podcast: Explore Caribbean Ancestry & Culture · Wendy Aris
Connecting Puerto Rican Roots: A Journey Through Genealogy
·50 min·5 clips
Joanna Diaz's mitochondrial DNA test traced her maternal line directly back to an indigenous Taina woman.
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A grounded look at Puerto Rican genealogy, persistence, and the records and stories that keep family history legible.
The episode pairs Wendy Arras with genealogist Joanna Diaz to trace decades of work on Diaz's Puerto Rican family tree, the difficulty of following Caribbean heritage through records, and the online resource she built for others doing the same search.
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If you are tracing Puerto Rican roots, this gives you a calm place to start.
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