Cuban Genealogy Podcast
Podcast dedicated to Cuban family history and Cuban genealogy. Topics include cemetery research, parish records, vital records, DNA and Cuban history!
Episodes
Rich Denis present Canary Islands in Your Family Tree...part 2, mostly in Spanish
Canary Islands in your family tree - presented by Richard Denis.
Welcome to episode 405: we interview Italian photographer Carolina Sandretto about her book "Cines de Cuba"
Exerpt from the book jacket: "In 1953, Cuba had 694 cinemas and theaters. Havana alone had 134, more than New York or Paris. In 2014, documentary photographer Carolina Sandretto set out to find and photograph, with a 1950s medium-format camera, the remaining cinemas from that golden era. This book is a visual document o...
Episode 404: April 2021. Join us for our discussion with Molly Rogers of American Ancestors. Molly and her team are digitizing ecclesiastical records in the Boston area. We discuss the project and how we can attribute their successes with the Cuba digitization project. For more information please visit www.AmericanAncestors.com
In honor of St Patrick's Day, we would like to share a research project by Giselle Gonzalez-Garcia from the book, Ireland and Cuba: Entangled Histories. The researcher uses cemetery records (1859-1862) to explore Irish immigration to Cuba.
The full survey can be found here:
https://irlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Irlanda-y-Cuba-historias-entretejidas-030120-with-cover.pdf
In the second part of the podcast, we ...
Celebrating Women's History Month/El Mes de la Historia de la Mujer!
Welcome to the Cuban Genealogy Podcast! Where we discuss all things related to tracing your Cuban genealogy! In this episode we will hear about the women’s movement in Cuba from 1890-1940. We will have a candid conversation with my university professor, Dr Lynn Stoner. We will discuss the women’s movement by comparing two generations, that of my grandmother and he...
Podcast 309: We discuss Cuban-American actor, Cesar Romero, and his possible connection to Jose Marti. This podcast snippet is part of our Famous Cubans in Your Family Tree webinar broadcasted on Facebook Live December 2020. Other episodes from this series include: Carly Simon, Maria Teresa Mestre y Batista, Marta Abreu and Catalina Laza. Full video version available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR...
Part of our final podcast series for 2020, Famous Cubans in Your Family Tree Part 1: the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg - Maria Teresa Mestre y Batista. In this episode we explore Maria Teresa's journey from Marinao, Cuba to the United States and eventually to European royalty when she becomes the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
Continuing our series on How to Be Cuban American in 30 Days, we interview Cuban-American author, Gustavo Perez Firmat. Topics include his book "Living on the Hypen: The Cuban-American Way," what it means to be Cuban-American, family history and the importance of speaking Spanish! Thank you for supporting the Cuban Genealogy Podcast and our efforts to digitize historic records to preserve our Cuban heritage. Please follow us ...
To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, we present blogger, Marta Darby of My Big Fat Cuban Family! We discuss the importance of Cuban food, Cuban family history, speaking Spanish at home, the perfect flan and life as a Cuban American in Southern California! This podcast is part of our How to be Cuban American in 30 Days challenge. For more information visit: mybigfatcubanfamily.com
The video version of this interview is a...
Welcome to Podcast 305: Irish Genealogy. First in our series covering Irish Genealogy in Cuba: we interview Nicola Morris, Director and Co-founder of timeline.ie - a website specializing in Irish genealogy.
Welcome to Podcast 304. Rich Denis presents Cuban Marriage Records. In this episode we explore what to look for when researching your Cuban ancestors using available marriage records. Learn when to ask for an expediente, where to find marriage records and the future digitization efforts to preserve parish records for family research!
Episode 303: We take a break from genealogy and interview Mr Fernando Armstrong, US Census Regional Director of the Philadelphia Office. We talk about the success of the mail and online versions of the 2020 census and the effects of Covid19.
Welcome to the Cuban Genealogy Podcast episode 302! Our mission is to keep you updated on Cuban genealogy and keep you entertained and informed about how to preserve your Cuban heritage. We hope you will enjoy this interview with DJ and Ish, the hosts of the Pero Let Me Tell You Podcast! In this podcast we talk about Cuban family stories, heirlooms, genealogy, Miami life and everyone’s favorite topic: Cuban food! And this is our fi...
The Bacardi Family: origins including an intro to French immigration (4 waves).
News: DigitalCuba launches a quarterly digital Cuban genealogy newsletter. Upcoming Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami meeting on March 7, 2020: email secretary@cubangenclub.org to register.
Keywords: #frenchimmigration #santiagodecuba #bacardi #rum #sugar #coffee #taino #freemasons
References:
1. Tom Gjelten: Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba
2...
Our first podcast on Notable Cuban Women: the mother of Cuban Independence: Mariana Grajales Cuello
Listen to her life story as we trace her and her children through the course of Cuban independence.
Cuban Genealogy News:
Digital Cuba is officially a 501c3...digitization of Cuban parish records has begun. We digitized 3 parishes but we need your support to continue our preservation efforts. For more information: www.DigitalCuba.org
...News: DigitalCuba is officially a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The cemetery in Camajuani has been added to FindaGrave.com.
In this episode we discuss the history of Chinese migration to Cuba. We breakdown the discussion into migration waves starting in 1847 when the first ship arrived with 400 Chinese migrants. We discuss the Cementerio Chino located in Havana and the efforts to preserve Cuban Chinese culture. We also di...
The Cuban Genealogy Podcast presents our first famous family tree: featuring Desi Arnaz. Desi Arnaz was the first Latin superstar to takeover America. Born in Santiago de Cuba to a local politician, Desi would venture to America, marry a famous red head and start one of the most successful production companies in America: Desilu Productions. Come learn something new about Desi Arnaz in our first famous family tree mini podcasts!
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