This
page holds significant news items that were on the CubaGenWeb Home Page
during the year 1999. For other years consult the index on the left.
More
regions of the International Genealogical Index have been added
to the LDS Family Search® Service (11 Dec 1999)
The following regions of the International
Genealogical Index have been recently added to the LDS Church Family Search® Internet search Service:
- Caribbean Islands (including Cuba)
- Southwest Europe (including Spain)
- Mexico
- South America
- Central America
- Continental Europe
- Germany
- Denmark
- Iceland
- Norway
- Sweden
- Asia
- Southwest Pacific
- Ocean Islands
- World Misc.
The search service encompasses the LDS Church International
Genealogical Index, the largest genealogical database in the world,
and also entries submitted by individuals to the Ancestral File database of family genealogies.
Of importance to Cuban Genalogy Research is that you
can now search for genealogical events such as births and marriages that
occurrred in Cuba (under the category "Caribbean") and Spain, as well
as in Mexico and countries in Central and South America.
You can view the basic information (names, dates and
places) on line and obtain a microfilm reference number. You can then
view the microfilm of the actual record by visiting your nearest LDS Church
Family History Center. For more information on LDS Church resources and
Family History Center procedures visit our page on LDS
Church Resources.
More
Cuban Addresses and Telephone Numbers (28 Nov 1999)
Thanks to the efforts of one of our readers, we
have just published lists of Cuban addresses and telephone numbers of
genealogical interest corresponding to the current provinces of Pinar
del Río and Matanzas. These lists join the previously
posted lists of Cienfuegos and Villa Clara.
Cuban
Genealogical Society Reactivating (2 Nov 1999)
The Cuban Genealogical Society,
a non-profit organization founded in 1988 but inactive since 1995, is
being reactivated in January. The CGS will be publishing the Revista© once again three times a year. For information on how to become a member
visit the new Cuban Genealogical
Society web site.
Cuban
Provinces (31 Oct 1999)
We have added a listing of the Administrative Departments
y Provinces that have existed in Cuba from 1827 to the present.
Military
Records Information Consolidated (31 Oct 1999)
We have expanded and consolidated all information
dealing with Cuban and Spanish Military Records on one web page for ease
of reference. We have added the reference and LDS microfilm number of
Carlos Roloff's definitive listing of Cuban veterans of the Cuban War
of Independence. We have also added information on Spanish military records
and how to obtain them.
Passenger
Lists Information Consolidated (24 Oct 1999)
We have expanded and consolidated all information
dealing with Passenger Lists to and from Cuba on one web page for ease
of reference. The page includes a list of publications of passenger lists
from Spain to Cuba prior to 1600, a description of the passenger list
records from Spain to Cuba 1600-1701 available at the Archive of the Indies
in seville and a list of LDS Church microfilms of the Libros de Asientos
(Books of Seats) covering 1509-1701. The page also lists sources for passenger
lists arriving from Cuba to Key West 1898-1920 and gives links to on-line
sources of other passenger lists.
Church
Records Information Consolidated (24 Oct 1999)
We have expanded and consolidated all information
dealing with Cuban Church Records on one web page for ease of reference.
The page includes a new list of the available LDS microfilms of Cuban
Parish records (only one is available); a description of the indexes and
transcriptions of Cuban Parish Records compiled by the Cuban Genealogical
Society; as well as the addresses and telephone numbers of the Catholic
Archdiocesis, Diocesis, and several Catholic and Baptist Churches of Cuba.
Carraffa
Index now On-Line (26 Sept 1999)
The US Library of Congress has recently made available
an interactive on-line index to the more than 15,000 names included in
the 88 volume work Enciclopedia Heráldica y Genealógica Hispano-Americana
of Alberto and Arturo Garcia Carraffa. The index also encompasses the
continuation work by Endika de Mogrobejo, and displays a list of the libraries
in the US that have the Carraffa work in their collection. By using this
search engine you can find the names, volume and page number where the
names appear in the Enciclopedia. The index is located at: Index
to the Enciclopedia Heraldica Hispano-Americana of Alberto and
Arturo Garcia Carraffa. . We have added this information to our Lookup Your Surnames web page.
Thanks to Silvia M. Quiñones de Belgodere of the Sociedad
Puertoriqueña de Genealogía for providing us the above information.
New
Milestones Reached (19 Sept 1999)
Several milestones have been recently achieved
by CubaGenWeb. We have just welcomed the 40,000th visitor to our web site
since our home page counter was initialized on 4 July 1996. Our surname
Query Bulletin Board continues to gain
in popularity and recently surpassed 1890 messages posted. (Please remember
that only surname queries should be posted on this bulletin board). Our CUBA-L genealogy mailing list now boasts
196 subscribers.
New
Surname Query Board Features (8 July 1999)
The GenConnect team has added the following new
features to the Cuban Surname Query Board:
- Ability to preview and edit your posting as many
times as you want before actually posting the message.
- A built in searchbar on the main page. This allows
to search the posted queries by keywords or phrases, to set the number
of messages displayed on the page and also to determine in what order
they are displayed. The old "Search/Personalize Your Display"
controls are still available for advanced searching such as searching
by the person who posted.
- The automatic notifications now show the surname
list and where to go to read the message, and also where to subscribe
and unsubscribe to the automatic notification list.
Along with the above changes, we have updated and reorganized
the Bulletin Board Instructions.
We hope that these changes will make the board easier to use.
List of Generals Added (6 Jun 1999)
A list of the 141 Generals of the Cuban
Army of Liberation 1895-1898, whose short biographies appear in
the book by Mario Riera Hernández,
has been added to the web site. Check the list out and maybe you will
find a "Mambí" ancestor.
Spanish Language Genealogy
Computer Program (24 Apr 1999)
We recently learnt of the availability of a genealogy
computer program that can print reports in the Spanish Language and can
even operate with Spanish language menus and commands, merely by changing
the program preferences. The program is Cumberland
Family Tree. This program is shareware, that is you can download and
utilize the fully functional program for a trial period of 45 days. After
the trial period, many features of the program become inoperable unless
you purchase a license for use.
We have updated our page on Choosing
a Genealogy Computer Program, adding the above information and
adding a list of the most popular genealogy programs currently available,
with links to their web sites.
Carraffa
Encyclopedia Being Expanded (24 Apr 1999)
One of the major reference works about the genealogy
of hispanic-american families is the monumental Enciclopedia
Heráldica y Genealógica Hispano-Americana of
the brothers Carraffa.
Unfortunately, the Carraffa brothers both died before completing the work.
They did manage to complete 86 volumes, reaching the surname Urriza.
Now, a group of genealogists in Bilbao, Spain, has picked up where Carraffa
left off. They now have completed 13 volumes, having reached the surname Zamora. If you are researching surnames in the alphabetic range
of Urriza to Zamora, be sure to check out our listing
of volumes of this new collection (as additional volumes become
available we will add them to the list).
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