Online places to check for your ancestors

This is another post which is going to be very much a "work in progress." I apologize for it's disorganization.  I just want to get some ideas out  there for you before I totally forget them.


There are two excellent online resources for you to look at:

Cubagenweb.org:

Back in the 1990s, a group of like-minded people got together with a chat room on CompuServ with the intention of sharing genealogical information and resources.  Ed Elizondo was one of those early members.  When it became possible to create websites, he organized the CubaGenWeb.org pages. Here's the link.

https://www.cubagenweb.org/

This site contains a database currently (as of July 30, 2019) 275,104 passenger names from 13,913 ships traveling to and from Havana.
Passenger records can be searched by first and/or second surname, by first name(s), or by ship code. The ships database can be searched by ship code, ship name, port of origin, port of destination, or date.

The home page of this website is filled with useful links for you to explore.

The Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami:
https://cubangenclub.org/

Much of the information at this site is available to the public, but some is reserved for members only.  The membership fee is nominal.

An article about a free-lance researcher in Asturias.

https://www.lne.es/oriente/2020/01/20/canguesa-conecta-descendientes-emigrantes-asturias/2586467.html?fbclid=IwAR0_pPL5VzXfLVG_NbpRiK8UpHYEuAYZ-DHHezM6q50GEzNy8UGKAaYxrRA


This link is to an article in Spanish about a woman who has done free research for people from Cangas de Onis, in Asturias.  It is written in Spanish.


Familysearch.org

 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been digitizing birth, marriage, death, census, and other records for more than 60 years.  Volunteers from all over the world index these records, and access to the records is totally free.

Two caveats, however: 

1 - Although each record is indexed by two different people, working independently from each other, and differences are resolved by an arbitrator, often these volunteers are unfamiliar  with the language they are indexing.  Because of this, while doing the best they can, mistakes are often made in interpreting the names.  The Family History Center has recently introduced a method to allow errors to be corrected. 

2 - Some records have been filmed but have not yet been indexed.  These records are also available to researchers, however you will have to search them line by line for the information you seek.

Google

Have you searched for your family in Google?  It's amazing what this powerful search engine can bring up!  Try entering the full name of your ancestor, surrounded by quotes:  "Candido Arango Garcia" will give  you links to findagrave.com, Ancestry.com, VerPueblos.com,  and Archive.org. Some of these links go to information I added myself, but the last one is an article which contains the name of my grandfather as a past president of the Club Cudillero in Havana.







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