Les hablo como alguien que ya pasó por esto. Yo también fui una investigadora principiante y me emocioné muchísimo cuando descubrí la genealogía. Pero esa emoción me costó alrededor de seis meses de trabajo en mi árbol familiar. Cuando finalmente me di cuenta de que muchas cosas simplemente no tenían sentido, decidí detenerme y buscar qué recomendaban las genealogistas y los genealogistas profesionales. Mientras más leía, más claro se hacía que me había dejado llevar por la emoción y que...

I am coming to you as someone who has been there. I was once a beginner researcher and got very excited about doing genealogy. Unfortunately, that excitement cost me about six months of work on a family tree. Once I realized that things were just not making sense, I stepped back and started researching what professional genealogists suggested and what advice they had to offer. It became clear that I had gotten too excited and needed to go back to the beginning. So I did. And it was not...

When we begin tracing our family history, we often start with surnames — following fathers, grandfathers, and the men whose last names were passed down through generations. But in so many of our Caribbean and Latin American families, it was the women who held everything together. They were the steady hands. The quiet strength. The ones who carried children across oceans, across plantations, across mountains, across borders — and into the future. This Women’s History Month, I want to honor the...