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		<title>Welcome to PRRoots.com</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beginning:
In 1993 three people, interested in finding their family&#8217;s history, met on-line and began what is now &#8220;The Hispanic Genealogical Society Of New York&#8221;.They began by helping each other research their Puerto Rican roots on Compuserve&#8217;s Genealogy Forum where there were very few people researching Latin roots. With time, the Latin American Forum was created where the group was able to expand their knowledge, specific to Hispanic research. They created an on-line Hispanic reference library, collecting genealogical resources from all over Latin America and Spain.
Attendance to the forum continued to grow as on-line conferencing and networking between members from many Latin American countries, and Spain, enabled the group to be diversified. A short editorial letter in HISPANIC magazine gave further exposure to the groups purpose, helping to make it the largest Hispanic genealogical group on-line, at the time.
In 1995, Jorge CamuÃ±as, Alfred Sosa and Charlie Fourquet got togther in ...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Archives offers insight into the lives of people, their families and our history. Because the records at the National Archives come from every branch of the Federal government, almost all Americans can find themselves, their ancestors, or their community in the archives. Knowing how a person interacted with the government is key to a successful search.
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		<title>Commonwealth of Puerto Rico</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Christopher Columbus arrived there in 1493, the island was     inhabited by the peaceful Arawak Indians, who were being challenged by the     warlike Carib Indians. Puerto Rico remained economically undeveloped until     1830, when sugarcane, coffee, and tobacco plantations were gradually     developed. After Puerto Ricans began to press for independence, Spain     granted the island broad powers of self-government in 1897. But during the     Spanish-American War of 1898 American troops invaded the island and Spain     ceded it to the U.S. Since then, Puerto Rico has remained an     unincorporated U.S. territory. Its people were granted American     citizenship under the Jones Act in 1917; were permitted to elect their own     governor, beginning in 1948; ...]]></description>
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