Cuban Genealogy Podcast

Cuban Genealogy Podcast

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Cuban Genealogy Podcast episodes

  • 304: Cuban Marriage Records with Rich Denis! June 2020

    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! 

    2 hr 6 min
  • 303: US Census Interview: Fernando Armstrong

    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. 

    31 min
  • 302: Interview Pero Let Me Tell You Podcast: DJ & Ish

    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 first ever interview episode! Thank you DJ and Ish! The Pero Let Me Tell You podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform. And now, on to the interview! 


    You can find the Pero Let Me Tell You Podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pero-let-me-tell-you/id1347023906

    1 hr 47 min
  • 301: The Bacardi Family (Part 1) + intro to French immigration to Cuba

    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 [email protected] to register. 

    Keywords: #frenchimmigration #santiagodecuba #bacardi #rum #sugar #coffee #taino #freemasons


    References:

    1. Tom Gjelten: Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba

    2. www.bacardifoundation.org

    13 min
  • 203: Notable Cuban Women: Pt 1: Mariana Grajales Cuello

    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

    Find A Grave: Community Days - October 4, 2019. Digital Cuba celebrates Find A Grave Community Day by adding over 1,000 cemetery records for Cementerio San Carlos in Matanzas. 

    October is Family History month. Why not attend the Oct 19th Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami meeting: Beyond the Family Tree – Ways to share your Family’s Story. More information can be found at www.CubanGenClub.org.

    Featured Notable Cuban Woman - Mariana Grajales Cuello and her 14 children

    Mariana Grajales Cuello:

    Articulo sobre la bisnieta de Mariana Grajales:

    http://www.cubahora.cu/historia/confesiones-de-una-bisnieta-de-mariana-grajales-fotos-audios

    14 min
  • 202: Chinese Ancestry in Cuba

    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 discuss the 2012 discovery of an abandoned Chinese cemetery in the Artemisa province. We then discuss the findings of a 2008 DNA study of mitochondrial (mtDNA) and Y-DNA and what to expect from your DNA results.  

     Show notes section:  

    Digitization fundraising: http://www.paypal.me/digitalcuba

    Chinese Cuban preservation project:

    http://www.mychinaroots.com/portfolio-items/mariel-cuba-americas-oldest-chinese-cemetery/

    www.mychinaroots.com/es/ 

    Cuban DNA study:

    https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1004488

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2492877/

    https://www.thoughtco.com/short-history-of-the-chinese-in-cuba-688162

    For further reading:

    Yun, L. The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba. (Temple University Press, 2008).

    Baltar Rodríguez, José. Los chinos de Cuba. Apuntes etnográficos. Havana: Fundación Fernando Ortiz, 1997.

    The Cuba Commission Report: A Hidden History of the Chinese in Cuba. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1993.

    Jiménez Pastrana, Juan. Los chinos en la historia de Cuba, 1847-1930. Havana: Ediciones Políticas, 1983.

    Perez de la Riva, Juan, and Pedro Deschamps Chapeaux. Contribución a la historia de la gente sin historia, Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1974. 

    Encyclopedia of Cuba:

    https://smile.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Cuba-People-History-Culture/dp/1573565725/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=encyclopedia+of+cuba&qid=1557882264&s=gateway&sr=8-1

    11 min
  • 201: Desi Arnaz: Famous Family Tree

    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!

    11 min
  • Ep 105: Are there Jewish Roots in your Cuban family tree?
    Are there Jewish roots in your Cuban family tree? Download the latest podcast to hear about Jewish migration waves to the island. The discussion continues with an update on the 2 Jewish cemeteries in the Havana province. The podcast ends with quick tips on helping you determine which wave of Jewish immigration may have brought your ancestors to Cuba. Especially helpful for those who have Ashkenazi or Sephardi ethnicity in their DNA reports!
    Podcast reference links:
    https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/cuba-virtual-jewish-history-tour
    https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2421045/united-hebrew-congregation-ashkenazi-at-guanabacoa
    https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0977620700/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4
    http://data.jewishgen.org/imagedata/jowbr/CUBA-00347/uhcc.html
    13 min
  • Ep 104: Taino in your Cuban family tree + intro to Cuban DNA
    #taino #nativeamerican #DNA #cubangenealogy #caribbean #ancestry #ChicanOstinoid
    Welcome to podcast #104: we are discussing the Taino ancestry…
    But first, it’s news time! Here’s some express news we’d like to share! The Cuban Genealogy Podcast was mentioned on the Genealogy Gems most recent podcast #223! Genealogy Gems is hosted by Lisa Louise Cook. Her podcasts are informative and so useful, covering so many family history topics and she is the one who inspired us to start the Cuban podcast. You can follow her podcast on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you listen to podcasts. Cemetery record news: more and more cemetery records are going online at FindAGrave.com. La Salud is at 200, it was at 3 records earlier this year. We also have photographers documenting: San Antonio and Bejucal. Cementerio Viejo are going online soon! Here’s a quick message we got from Bill on Facebook: Hey, Brian... I wanted to thank you. Amongst the more than 1,500 tombs you documented in Colon cemetery was the brother of my great great grandmother. Thank you, Bill, that is what this project is all about. Collaboration! We also have a free Cuban Genealogy presentation on Jan 12, 2019 at the Seacaucus Public Library in NJ. 11 am…free! And there’s RootsTech in February, the Cuban Genealogy Podcast will be there to report live and keep you updated on genealogy research if you’re unable to attend this year. I went last year and I learned so much from the workshops and there’s a large expo where you can explore DNA companies, family history societies and genealogy gift booths.
    To help you with your research we are planning a few interesting podcast projects: how to join or start a Cuban surname study, a one sheet reference sheet for beginners and the ongoing cemetery records project. 2019 will be another exciting year for Cuban genealogy.
    And for fun and historical reference we are going to start a monthly book club… and a quarterly newsletter that you can download for free from DigitalCuba.org and we will also start with some famous…celebrity family trees starting with the next podcast where will dive into the Bacardi family and focus on some of their French ancestry.
    And on to the podcast! Just as a brief note, I am not a Taino expert but I do find the history fascinating. And according to 23andMe, I also have 4% Native American DNA ancestry categorized under Cuba. So, in this podcast we will discuss the Taino and then the second half of the podcast will cover an introduction to Cuban DNA in general.
    In October I went to New York City to visit the Smithsonian museum, which is located in the financial district near Battery Park.
    Here’s a description of the Taino exhibit from the website:
    Over the past thirty years, a diverse Taíno movement has taken form. This movement challenges the prevalent belief that Native peoples became extinct shortly after European colonization in the Greater Antilles. It is spurring a regeneration of Indigenous identity within the racially mixed and culturally blended societies of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, as well as other areas of the Caribbean.
    In this exhibition, visitors will explore the rural roots of the Taíno movement and find information about the legacy of Native peoples throughout the Spanish-speaking Caribbean islands and their U.S. diasporas. Welcome to part 2 we are going to discuss what to expect from a DNA test and how it can help you with your Cuban ancestry research. I know some of you are researching all the way back to Spain, I am not quite ready to focus my personal research on Spain yet but last week I did make my first Spain DNA connection and it made me think, you know, maybe I can work from both ends to link myself to the past. And it is certainly fun to know that I have living cousins in Spain!
    Okay, enough about me! Drum roll please, the main DNA tests are: ancestry.com, 23andMe, FamilyTreeDNA, and MyHeritageDNA. LivingDNA is also on the rise.
    16 min

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Podcast dedicated to Cuban family history and Cuban genealogy. Topics include cemetery research, parish records, vital records, DNA and Cuban history!