This site is dedicated to the genealogy of the families who immigrated
to Puerto Rico during the 1800s, found one another, and formed our

Familia

Gilbert Caquias Lopez

August 2000


During the last forty years of my life, there has been flourishing in me the idea and burning desire to know more about the history of my ancestors.

This desire is the result of the tales and folklore which were passed down through the lips of my parents and grandparents, further awakened by a photograph of an old gray-haired man with a beard down to his chest (Enrique Brugman Laborde). I came upon this photograph while looking at family albums on July 4th, 1990 at my cousin Nelson Santiago's 16 acre estate in York, Maine.

The summary of this research that I present is part of my effort to improve my knowledge of my family and of how they lived and died.