Cuba Church Indexes
The Cuba church indexes were made possible by the Cuban Genealogical Society. These indexes are an amazing way of being able to locate ancestors for those researching the island. The Cuban Genealogical Society published a quarterly Revista (magazine) beginning in 1988.
To provide more context on Cuba church indexes, while provided in the opening images, I will post here what the abbreviations provided mean. Lastly, the indexes cover from the 1600s through the 1800s.
The format of the Cuba church index images are:
- Surname
- Given Name
- Sex
- Date of event
- Type of event
- M is Marriage
- B is Baptism
- D is Death
- C is Confirmation
- G is related to the person performing the ceremony
- A parent, previous spouse, or witness to ceremony
- Source number with following codes
- 6 digits of source followed by ,
- 5 digit of book and page number or page only followed by #
- R = Revista volume and issue number
My breakdown below is providing the name of the towns, years covered, along with the image numbers of where the index begins to help you jump around in the images. In addition, the rows are linked to where to find the records.
- Camagüey formerly known as Puerto Principe 1677 – 1868 (Images 12 through 157)
- Mantanzas 1688 – 1866 (Images 161 – 188)
- Oriente 1590 – 1880 (Images 191 – 218)
Hopefully these church indexes will be useful to many as many complain that Cuba is a difficult island to research. There is more content I have on Cuba so I will be posting when I have free time. Feel free to post comments below. Happy researching!