Puerto Rican Genealogy Group – Member Interest & Topic Poll

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Please complete this poll to help us plan future meetings, resources, and group-wide projects. Thank you for your input!

Your Name (leave blank if you want to be anonymous)

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Which types of genealogical topics interest you most?

Slavery-era records & Afro-Puerto Rican ancestry

Colonial / 18th–19th-century notarial records (wills, property, manumissions)

Spanish-era church/diocesan records (baptism, marriage, dispensa, soltería)

Sephardic / Jewish-heritage research in Puerto Rico

Naturalization & migration records

Census, civil registries & demographic data

Family-charting and lineage reconstruction

Genetic genealogy / DNA-based family reconstruction

Historical context: social, economic, and cultural background of ancestors

Other (please specify) → Short answer

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Which formats do you find most useful for learning or sharing?

Live Zoom meetings

Shared online articles or blog posts

Written guides / how-to documents

Shared PDFs of archival documents / transcriptions

Collaborative spreadsheets / shared family-trees

In-person archive visits (when possible)

Email newsletters / digests

Other (please specify) → Short answer

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Which projects or priorities would you like us to focus on in the upcoming months?

Building a shared database of slavery-era records & freed-ancestor lines

Compiling a directory of archival repositories (church, civil, notarial) by municipality

Organizing a virtual “archive crawl” — members share what they find in archives like AGPR

Research on Sephardic / Jewish heritage in Puerto Rican families

Mapping ancestral migration paths (within Puerto Rico, and to/from U.S. mainland)

Digitizing and transcribing old documents (scans/photos → searchable text)

Holding teaching sessions: Spanish-era records, archival navigation, genealogy methods

Member-story spotlights: sharing individual family-history journeys for community learning

Other (please specify) → Short answer

Would you be willing to volunteer time or effort for group-wide projects?

Yes — regularly

Yes — occasionally

Maybe / depends on the task

Other:

Suggestions or comments for future meetings, topics, or group initiatives:

Any suggestions to the puertoricangenealogy.org website?

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