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Puerto Rico Genealogy Resources

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Puerto Rico Genealogy Books

• The Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists edited by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack and Erin Nevius (Family Tree Books)

 

• Finding Your Hispanic Roots by George R. Ryskamp (Genealogical Publishing Co.)

• From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City by Virginia E. Sánchez Korrol (University of California Press)
 
• Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico by Jay Kinsbruner (Duke University Press)
 
• The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States by Jorge Duany (University of North Carolina Press)
 

• Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898 by César J. Ayala and Rafael Bernabe (University of North Carolina Press)

Organizations and Archives

• Florida International University Libraries Latin American and Caribbean Information Center, Green Library 225, University Park Campus, Miami, FL 33199, (305) 348-3142, <lacic.fiu.edu> 

• The Hispanic Genealogical Society of New York, Old Chelsea Station, Box 474, New York, NY 10113, <www.hispanicgenealogy.com> 

• The Hispanic Society of America, 613 W. 155th St., New York, NY 10032, (212) 926-2234, <www.hispanicsociety.org> 

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• Hunter College Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños), 695 Park Ave.,Room E1429, New York, NY 10065, (212) 772-5688, <centropr.org> 

• Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña), Box 9024184, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00902, (787) 724-0700, <www.icp.gobierno.pr>

 • NARA Northeast Region—New York City, 201 Varick St., 12th Floor, New York, NY 10014, (866) 840-1752, <archives.gov/northeast/nyc> 

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• New York State Archives, Cultural Education Center 9C71, Albany, NY 12230, (518) 474-6926, <www.archives.nysed.gov> 

• Puerto Rican/Hispanic Genealogical Society, Box 260118, Bellerose, NY 11426, <rootsweb.ancestry.com/~prhgs>

• Puerto Rico Department of Health, Demographic Registry, Box 11854, Fernandez Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910, (787) 767-9120, <www.salud.gov.pr/Programas/RegistroDemografico> 

• Puerto Rico General Archive (Archivo General de Puerto Rico), Instituto de Cultura, Box 9024184, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00902, (787) 725-1060, <www.icp.gobierno.pr/agp> 

From the March 2010 Family Tree Magazine

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