Re: Miranda from Morovis, Puerto Rico
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Re: Miranda from Morovis, Puerto Rico
Rafael Colon-Robles 3/11/02
Hello Ray.People call me Padre Tony as I am a priest.I couldn't help reading your Miranda message and my relative's answer.I gather from those messages that you are one of the several investigators who MIGHT be able to link back to our de Rivera and/or Miranda lines of Morovis/Ciales/Corozal/Toa Alta.I also gather that a final link, your grandparent's birth or baptism certificate would be the clincher to prove the relationship.
I would hope you would take the time out to find that missing link back to the ancestral line as some 15 out of 23 or 25 investigators are presently and occasionlly in contact with one another, each striving to find further links to others after years of hard but very satisfying work.I am really sorry you feel left out, as if people "do not seem to consider my father's children as anything but accidental relatives."However, after 22 years of genealogical investigations as a priest and a genealogist, I can assure you that the positive link YOU need to supply will be what will aid others in wanting to link to you and not the BELIEF that this or that might be your line.
I extend an invitation to you, to Cristina and to all Miranda descendants to keep on working hard finding those links that are so important.I personally am usually sceptical of calling anyone cousin, as Cris knows well, until I see the proof in a certificate or transcription but believe me I consider no one an accidental relative.If you are related, and we will know with the certificate of your grandfather, you will be pleasantly surprised as we have material back to the late 1700's which can be exchanged with you with source material that you will be able to check on by getting copies of your own certificates.
Take heart, friend, and do your homework, the A+ might get you a world of relatives you might have been better off not discovering ;-)A Miranda descendant, elpadre
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Re: Miranda from Morovis, Puerto Rico
Mary Anne Casiano 2/14/05