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Rediscovering Latinidad
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"Rediscovering Latinidad" is a podcast dedicated to Latinos and their genealogy & culture. Season 5 is out now! bit.ly/4f6i3ye
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VERY SPECIAL EPISODE: Maya Murillo @mayainthemoment.bsky.social joins us to talk about "No Sabo Kids." We support #Latinos who are learning Spanish as a second language!

Listen wherever you get your podcasts! www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
This week, an #AI #chatbot gave us genealogy questions to spark conversations! Don't miss this week's shocking ancestral stories: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi... #ChatYipiti
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Whew! Endogamy is a BIG THANG in my family. Uncles and nieces, first cousins...Learn all about it here.
This week, genealogist @efsacco.bsky.social joins us to talk about #CousinMarriage, Latin American endogamy & marriage dispensation records: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...

✨💍🤮 #cousins #eww
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Great conversation with @rediscoveringlatinidad !#CousinMarriage shapes families, economies, religion & local government, between the eighteenth & late 19c. Those dispensas hold all kinds of stories #eww
This week, genealogist @efsacco.bsky.social joins us to talk about #CousinMarriage, Latin American endogamy & marriage dispensation records: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...

✨💍🤮 #cousins #eww
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
These sweethearts are the most infamously inbred Habsburg, King Carlos II of Spain, and his first wife/1st cousin once removed, Marie Louise d'Orléans 👇
This week, genealogist @efsacco.bsky.social joins us to talk about #CousinMarriage, Latin American endogamy & marriage dispensation records: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...

✨💍🤮 #cousins #eww
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This week, genealogist @efsacco.bsky.social joins us to talk about #CousinMarriage, Latin American endogamy & marriage dispensation records: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...

✨💍🤮 #cousins #eww
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
🎃 Happy Halloween! We look at royal #genealogy and how co-hosts Briar and Edward (like a lot of people) have distantly ties to royalty.

👑 Historians @susanabernethy2.bsky.social & @ewoodacre.bsky.social discuss the true lives of medieval #queens and #princesses: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
👑 Forget ex-prince Andr*w, let's learn about the fascinating lives of Medieval Queens & Princesses! 👑

Our podcast is graced by Dr. Ellie Woodacre @ewoodacre.bsky.social @royalstudies.bsky.social & Susan Abernethy @susanabernethy2.bsky.social!

Listen now: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 AM
❤️In our latest episode, we look at our family members who were not born Latino, but joined Latino families through love.❤️ We talk with Edward's mom Barbara, and Briar's mother-in-law Shellee and uncles Billy and Dan. Tune in: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Could #PuertoRico become a sovereign nation? Javier Hernández shares with us his economic argument that it's possible! And he talks about his efforts to popularize the #Taino language: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi... #Borinquen #Boriken #Boricua #Boricuas
October 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
How do Latinos, with our regional history of civil wars and conflict, view the war between Israel and Palestine?

We talked to Edward's cousin David, who converted to Judaism, and lived in Israel; and Briar's late cousin Joaquin, who grew up in war-torn El Salvador: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
October 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
VERY SPECIAL EPISODE: Maya Murillo @mayainthemoment.bsky.social joins us to talk about "No Sabo Kids." We support #Latinos who are learning Spanish as a second language!

Listen wherever you get your podcasts! www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This week, we're looking at the history of Spanish, Latin American dialects, and the loan words in Spanish from a myriad of global languages. Listen now: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
September 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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History, keywords, chatbots, juicy gossip, business records, contested wills, land grabs, burial customs, institutional racism, wayward pharmacists, Jews, pirates, monarchs, snobs, and bitter family feuds over sheep — my #RootsTech talk is gonna have it ALL! ¡JUEPA JE! #genealogy #Latinos #HHM2025
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September 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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MARCH 2026: Don't miss my online #RootsTech talk on Searching for Latin American #Genealogy on FamilySearch.org! Sign up for free (or register for the in-person conference): rootstech.org
September 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
SEASON 7 OF #RediscoveringLatinidad IS HERE!

Let's unpack the labels Latino, Hispanic, and Latinx.

Did you know it was the French who came up with the phrase "Latin America"? And wait until you hear why census labels suck: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi... ¡ESCUCHA AHORA!
September 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Hispanic Heritage Month is coming. Season 7 of #RediscoveringLatinidad begins on September 18! 👑⚔️

Catch all our episodes: rediscoveringlatinidad.com

And the brilliant "Game of Thrones" vallenato is by Jaime Mesa: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFi5...
September 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
👑 A podcast fit for a Queen! 👑 We talked with historians Dr. Ellie Woodacre @ewoodacre.bsky.social & Susan Abernethy @susanabernethy2.bsky.social about the astounding lives of medieval queens & princesses in Iberia & broader Europe. Stay tuned for this episode in October! rediscoveringlatinidad.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Catching up on podcasts this summer? Learn all about Season 6 of "Rediscovering Latinidad," available wherever you get your podcasts: geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com/2025/06/redi... #latinos #genealogy #familyhistory
June 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Why is Pope Leo XIV invited to the carne asada? We discuss Pope Leo's Peruvian soul, his creole and Black ancestry that was uncovered by internet sleuths, and the legacy of Pope Francis. It's a two-Latino-Pope special! www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
May 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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I remember my Latino Studies professor, Dr. Frances Negron-Muntaner, saying that historically, "To be Puerto Rican is to feel shame."

The world's #1 recording artist, Bad Bunny, wearing a Boricua pava into the rarefied, ultra-elite Met Gala is a stunning pop culture moment. ¡Que viva Borinken!
May 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Don't miss the re-release of our great conversation with Latinx Parenting founder Leslie Priscilla! Learn about #chancla culture, how Latine families can heal, and how to raise future ancestors: www.spreaker.com/episode/re-a...
May 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
#Genealogy doesn't have to be an expensive hobby. We cover FREE and low-cost family history resources in our latest episode: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...

(With apologies to Norman Rockwell.)
April 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Trump wants to bring "Columbus Day back from the ashes" for "the Italians that love him so much." But was Columbus even Italian in the first place?

We talked with @shamrockgen.bsky.social about Columbus's mysterious (and "Jewish"?) DNA: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi... 🕵🧬
April 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Join us for Fall 2025 at Bronx Community College CUNY. Our faculty publish and research widely in their fields, and they transfer this expertise to the classroom www.bcc.cuny.edu/registrar/sp...
April 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Listen to our very own Dr. Raquel Otheguy (Associate Professor, History Bronx Community College CUNY) talk about her roots and scholarship #meetbccfaculty #wearebcccuny
We can't cover all of Cuba's beauty and culture in one episode, but we had fun trying!

Dr. Jane Landers from @vanderbilt.edu and Dr. Raquel Otheguy from @bcccunyhistory.bsky.social unpack Cuba's rich history and heritage: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
April 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM