Cuban Genealogy Center

08 Nov 2009 - We have added another 944 passenger names to our database. These names were transcribed by Mariela Fernandez and correspond to the arrivals and departures during Ocotober 1866. We now have 60,206 passenger names from 4,162 ships in our database. You can easily search this database by clicking on the above headline. Thanks Mariela!

26 Aug 2009 - We have a new Section for photographs of Cuban historic significance. Among the new photos is the last photo taken of General Calixto Garcia Iñiguez before his death. Click on the above headline, or on the link on the menu at left under "Our Archives", to reach the Index page.

26 Aug 2009 - We have added the following new link to our links page:

• Dating Old Photographs

CENSUS OF DEATHS IN CEUTA

17 Jun 2009 - Emilio Barranco, resident of Ceuta, has made a notable compilation of the records of Cubans who died while they were interned in the penal colony of Ceuta during the Cuban wars of liberation. He has made this detailed census available to CubaGenWeb, acompanied by more than 300 photographs of the original inscriptions of these deaths in the records of the church of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios in Ceuta. Click on the above headline to reach the data.

NEW PASSENGERS DATA BASE
and
NEW MAMBI DATA BASE

07 Jun 2009 - We have completely redesigned our Passengers and Mambi Army databases. You can now search the entire database in one step. You also do not need Java to perform searches. Click on the above headline links to reach the new database search forms.

We have removed the old Passengers data base because of file size limitations of our old search software.

For now we are retaining both versions of the Mambi database. The content of both versions is identical.

Our project to transcribe the 69,770 names of the veterans of the Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898) was completed in 2003. This project, honoring the memory of those who fought to liberate Cuba from the colonial yoke of Spain, was made possible by the effort of 34 volunteers, working for nearly 3 years and provides a unique resource for those researching their Cuban Genealogy.

We have also completed the transcriptions of the death notices of the soldiers that died during that war. These transcriptions provide a unique insight into the personal story of many who fought and died in the war.

BADATOR is a new searchable on-line database of the diocesan (church) archives of the Basque regions of Spain (Araba/ Alava, Gipuzkoa/ Guipuzcoa & Bizkaia/ Vizcaya) - the transcription work is currently in process and will be completed in 2008. As of Mar 2003, 590,000 records had been entered into the database.

We have generated a list of links to digitized books of interest to Cuban Genealogy. These books are available on-line for free download. Please continue letting us know of any others that you discover so we can all mutually benefit from these resources.

Thanks to copies of microfilmed newspapers provided by Mariela Fernandez and Lourdes del Pino, members of the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami, we are transcribing passenger lists arriving to (and a few departing from) Habana into our searchable data base. These records can be searched alphabetically. Click on the above headline to reach this resource.

Many documents from various Spain Archives have been (and are still being) digitized and placed on the web. The web site interface has recently been updated and is now much easier to use and you no longer have to register. You can search all the archives by any desired text (including personal names), and limit your search to a certain date range. You will then get a listing of all the archives having documents that match your seach criteria. Clicking on the name of an archive will bring up a list of the relevant documents in that archive, Many of these documents will show a small camera icon. Clicking on a camera icon will bring up small images of all the pages of the original document. You can then click on each page, zoom to read it, print it and/or save it to your computer for further study. Visit http://pares.mcu.es/

Thanks to the folks at Evendon.net, the 1958 Habana Telephone Directory is now available on line. Click on the above headline to go there.

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We are proud that our work has been recognized with the following awards:

• 2009 Cuba Select Honoree - One of the top 24 Cuba web sites in the world - awarded by the Havana Journal, Inc.
• 2006 Genealogy Outstanding Achievement Award - awarded to your Webmaster by the Florida State Genealogical Society.