Uncommon Start

What does it take to get started to look for your ancestors??? Well, for us, it was making a family connection. I had been trying to find information about my granddad Pachin's grandfather, José María Marxuach Echevarria and after about 5 years of searching, a couple of pictures from my aunt, and contacting the head editor of Puerto Rican Military History for Wikipedia, I was connected to extended family members of the Marxuach family, who at the time were in the midst of planning a family reunion in Spain. Because of this, I decided to attempt to notify family members of my grandfather's siblings.

This is when Marina and I started working together,
not only to contact family members about the reunion, but also about a facebook group we had started. It was easy to realize that with an uncommon name like Marxuach, it wasn't too hard to see that documents we found were, indeed associated to the family.

Marina's family name is Glumaz. I felt like that name would be easy to research because it seemed to be in the same category as the Marxuach name - uncommon. So I went  on Familysearch and Ancestry.com to see what I could find. I actually went to the library to access Ancestry because there was a library edition available for free. (Please note that the library edition does not give you access to all of Ancestry.com.) I also made my way to a Familysearch Center which was about 30 mins away. While there, I was able to access Footnote, now known as Fold3. It was amazing.... most of what was found online was Marina's family.

It was on Footnote that the images of the death certificates of Annie and her husband, SJ Glumaz were found. With Annie's record, we had concrete info for her family. A location: Ireland and a name: O'Keane. It's been a few years now....and we've amassed more information, but have not been able to verify a lot of it. This is why we have the blog now.

Death certificate found on Fold3, formerly known as Footnote.