Genealogia de los sotomayor biography

One of my passions is genealogy. It is a passion passed down to me by my family.

Estudio genético-genealógico sobre las familias Sotomayor y Colón del noroeste de Puerto Rico.

My parents, especially my mother, always told me stories about our ancestors and how we descended from prominent lineages. My maternal Carlo family, I was told, participated in the founding of the town of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico in , while my paternal Sotomayors also enjoyed prestige in Moca, Puerto Rico. Noting this Galician heritage, my father as a child gained the nickname "Gallego" the Galician.

To me, as an historian, genealogy is a fascinating intellectual puzzle that combines the search for distant ancestors and my urge to learn as much as I can from their lives and time periods they lived in. My passion for genealogy splinters into other diverse fields such as history of the early modern and colonial Caribbean and Latin America, onomastics, anthroponymy, genetics, heraldry, and medieval history among many others.

In this section, I outline my direct agnatic paternal genealogy, which is composed of three main lineages: Sotomayor, Lugo, and Pereira. I have been involved in the deep study of genealogy since , and with the complicated but very useful field of genetic genealogy since My ancestors have been in the island of Puerto Rico since early in the European colonization in the 16th century, my indigenous ancestors well before that.

La Casa de Sotomayor, una de las más antiguas y de las que más influencia tuvieron en la historia medieval gallega, ha sido estudiada por numerosos historiadores.

While the following genealogy traces only my paternal ancestry, I have tracked most of my four grandparents' ancestors, with more or less success, back to the 18th century and beyond. Like in many other societies, it is rather difficult to document genealogies past the 19th and 18th centuries. Being true to my Caribbean heritage, my ancestral background is very diverse.

My maternal ancestry, Carlo, is of Italian background, particularly from Genoa, in the Liguria region. The following genealogy contains brief information of each individual with links for further information. For more information on the research process that supports this genealogy, see my Publications section of this website, particularly the articles, "Genetic Genealogy