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Welcome
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Welcome to the Discussion Forum for the Canary Islanders Heritage Society of Louisiana. This will serve as a place where we can share information with each other about our ancestors, genealogy, research, and anything else related to our Islenos culture.
I encourage everyone to take adva...
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Trying to find information on my ancestors
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Hello Recently my sister in law and I have been tracing our family heritage via Ancestry.com and to date have manged to find relatives all the way back to 1635 living on Gran Canaria Island off Spain. Many of these ancestors moved onto places like Ireland and Louisiana. I would be so happy to try and find...
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Maps, pronunciation, and genealogy
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Hi, I'm a new member, just joined. I'm from Louisiana, mostly Cajun, and have Islenos in my ancestry. They begin with Jean Joseph Aleman, born 1818 in Valenzuela. I'm very involved in genealogy and would like to know more. 1. I just discovered this, and would like to know more about the Canary Islander...
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Hidalgos in the Canary Islands
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Any information regarding Joseph Hidalgo and his wife Isabelle S. Morales that arrived on the San Iganacio de Loyola ship from Tenerefie in 10/1778 would be appreciated. wandahidalgo@cox.net
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Ancestors on Guia Gran Canarias around 1715
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Hello My family and I are putting our family tree together and we have come across so many names that link back to the Gran Canarias to around 1635 but we are at this point trying to get more information on the following two ancestors Rita Ramoas Rivero Born: 21st July 1715 on Guia Married to Nicholas Beth...
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The word for "marbles" as used by Islenos
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Does anyone know the Isleno word for a playing marble? The proper word in Spanish is "canica," but I doubt if the Islenos used this word (meanwhile, the Cajun word is "canique"). Can ANYONE help! Malcolm Comeaux Professor Emeritus Geography Arizona State University
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Trying to find out information
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My great grandmother's name was rozelia murray but she was given her last name but her and her sister spoke spanish is there any way they could be spanish from the canary islands? or did carribeans migrate as far north as baton rouge?
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