Apr 2008 - We have completed the transcription of passengers to and from Habana in Jan-Jul 1849 and Feb-Apr 1874.

IMPORTANT: April 5, 2008 - Due to the increase in volume of data, we have been forced once again to split the data base into a larger number of files. Please be sure to click the "refresh" button on your browser the first time you access the search form on or after this date to succesfully access the new files.

We now have more than 22,000 passenger records from over 1,700 ships transcribed into our database.

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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