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News Archive - 2009

 

This page holds significant news items that were on the CubaGenWeb Home Page during the year 2009. For previous years consult the index on the left.

 

2 Jan 2009 - We have just been notified that CubaGenWeb.org is in the top 24 Cuba websites in the world, according to a recently completed thorough and objective review of dozens of Cuba related websites performed by Havana Journal Inc., a Massachusetts based corporation. Click on the above headline to read the details.

 

15 Feb 2009 - We continue to update the list of links to other web sites useful to Cuban Genealogy. We just reorganized the list of personal genealogies and added links to some new ones that have been brought to our attention, such as Iznaga. Please let us know if you have posted your Cuban genealogy on-line so we can include a link to it.

Out of curiosity, have you visited the web site on the Tramways of Cuba?

 

CubaGenWeb is Moving

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27 Feb 2009 - CubaGenWeb is moving to a new web hosting service. We have taken every precaution to minimize any interruption of service, but there may be periods in the next few days when CubaGenWeb might become temporarily unavailable while the domain name servers are updated throughout the Internet. We apologize for any inconvenience.

 

CubaGenWeb Move is Complete

7 Mar 2009 - The move of CubaGenWeb to our new web hosting service has been successfully completed.

 

26 Mar 2009 - We have opened an account on Twitter and are starting an experiment using it to bring you up to date on what we are doing and to let you provide immediate feedback. Click on the above headline to reach our Twitter Blog.

26 Apr 2009 - During our visit yesterday to FIU, we rescanned some nearly illegible pages from 1853 and 1854. We have now corrected misspellings of names and added ports of origins where missing.

We completed the transcription of passengers arriving Habana in July and August of 1853. We now have more than 37,400 passenger names from over 2,900 ships in our database. Click on the above headline to reach this data.

25 Jun 2009 - We have just finished transcribing 1,069 passengers arriving and departing Habana in January 1871. We now have more than 40,000 passengers from more than 3,100 ships in our databases. Among the passengers departing Habana was Jose Marti, age 18, who was deported to Spain by arrangements of his family so he coud continue his studies. Click on the above headline to reach the data base.

 

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