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I have added a link. All I am asking is what does this sound like, my gr grandmother father or more likely stepfather. I know it's secondary?

On ancestry.com there's two familytrees, one being my cousin & the other being I believe another cousin. Now they both have my great grandmother Amparo Garcia, & her mother (my great great grandmother) Natividad Nieves, & my great grandmother siblings. Now the person that I believe is my cousin (because my other cousin has him) put by himself fixing the facts (that is already usually done for you), that these are all my great grandmother half siblings. But yet they all listed as Garcia or Garcia Torres, & on their censuses they all go by Garcia & Garcia Torres. It shows on the censuses that my great grandmother after 1910 wasn't ever listed with her family ever again but now with her husband and kids. 1910 census with her mother and siblings everyone is put down (last name) Garcia, & the mother is Garcia Nieves, then 1920 my great grandmother still just Garcia on census, mid 1930s still Garcia in Social & Popular Schedules, then in 1940 on census Garcia Torres, & on her Civil Registration: event is death, it shows she's Garcia Torres, her death date is right but it shows the mother was put down as Natividad Torres, & the father (that is never listed until now) is Sandolio Garcia.

Does it seem the father that I who believe is Torres, seem to be my great grandmother father or probably most likely step father? What does this seem like?

Here's a link starting from my great grandmother half brother in life story

http://person.ancestry.com/tree/26149396/person/12...

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  • Ashley
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Have you looked at Amparo's birth record?

    https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-YSDP-...

    It says (in summary, with my limited handle on Spanish):

    Natividad Garcia, age 25, single, occupation domestic, native of Fajardo neighborhood in (can't read), living in las Cabezas, gave birth to a girl, color white, born at the house of the declarant [Esteban Guzman] on 5 January 1901. Father not named. Child is the maternal granddaughter of Sandalio Garcia of Fajardo (deceased) and Matilde Nieves of Fajardo (deceased). Baby is named Amparo.

    Here is the birth record for Amparo's older sister, Maria Victoriana, born 30 Mar 1898, mother Natividad Garcia of las Cabezas, age 30, single, domestic. No father named. Grandparents are Sandalio Garcia and Matilda Nieves, both deceased. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-YSDG-...

    The 1920 census, where Natividad is listed as Garcia y Nieves and her children are all Garcia y Torres, is confusing. Garcia y Torres would indicate that the father's surname is Garcia and the mother's is Torres. But we know that the mother's surname is Garcia. It could be a mistake, and the names were just flip-flopped. Or it could be a way of indicating that the parents weren't married (I haven't heard of that being done, but who knows). Or Torres could be the name of some man that Natividad was living with at some point. Lots of what ifs, but we can't know anything for sure with these records.

    Perhaps Natividad appealed to the court at some point, asking for some kind of support from her children's father(s). This wouldn't be online; you'd have to visit Puerto Rico or write a letter requesting a search. It's a long shot, and it would take some research to find out where to write... but as they say, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

    Another option is to look for baptismal records for Natividad's children. Baptism records *sometimes* include the father's name for illegitimate children. It's rare, but always worth checking. Again, you'd have to figure out which church they may have been baptized at, and write to church or achives where the records are kept.

  • Maxi
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Same as you asked every other time you have asked online trees are guesswork, find the real records the prove ancestry as until you do all you are doing is copying and pasting and building a lets pretend tree

  • 4 years ago

    Do real research and forget about the family trees on Ancestry.Com or any website. They are not records at all.

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