Cuban Genealogy Center

14 Jun 2008 - We just returned from a short visit to Spain to visit family. In Madrid we had the pleasure of meeting Miguel Angel Fernández González and his delightful wife Amelia (both on the right of the photo). Miguel Angel, a cuban born genealogist and distant relative, is currently the Vice President of Hispagen, the main Spanish genealogy organization on the Internet. We exchanged information on the state of documents of genealogical importance in Cuba and efforts that he has undertaken for their preservation. More photos.

4 May 2008 - 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.

26 Aug 2008 - We have completed the transcription of passengers arriving in Habana in January 1850, October 1852 and the legible parts of March 1853.

We now have more than 24,000 passenger records from over 1,900 ships transcribed into our database. Click on the above headline to reach this data.

8 Aug 2008 - We have completed transcribing the following:

• 3901 names of the employees of the 1919 Census of Cuba
• 1643 names of the employees of the 1899 Census of Cuba.

Click on the above headline or the entry in the left menu to reach the data base.

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/

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