Hola familia mia!

I've had some really nice comments come in on this blog. But I think it's time for an update, don't you?

Someone suggested DNA tests to determine our ancestry. That is a fantastic idea!

The only thing is that the test for female DNA only shows very ancient family information. While we may be interested to know if our very ancient mothers came from the Sub-Saharan continent, it seems to me that it would be more useful to know more about our ancestors PRE Puerto Rico! For that you need male DNA.

Therefore if any one of you Caban guys out there (particularly my immediate cousins) who gets a DNA test please let me know all about it and I will gladly publish the results here on this site. Who knows? We might get some interesting results and the exchange of good information.

The picture above is of "Tia Goya" - Gregoria Caban de Reyes. She came to New York in the early 1920s. She was married to Daniel Reyes and they never had any children. Tia Goya didn't like the things that went on in the bedroom so she gave her husband money to go get himself "Fixed" from time to time. They adopted and raised her nephew, Phillip Salgado. Tia Goya also bought land in Manhattan but didn't read English, so when the tax notices came she never paid the taxes and in time the city took her land back. I'm shaking my head at the loss of her potential fortune even as I type these words...