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From: "Rene Castellanos" <>
Subject: Re: [CUBA] About hospital records
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 21:34:48 -0600
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Hello Mayra:
It is good to know your negative experience with the Registro Civil, so
as not to waste valuable time and effort.
It was suggested by my father as the place where birth and marriages
were recorded, but we have never written to the Registro Civil since
we arrived in the U.S. in '63, and have no experience with any of the
government offices in Cuba. Have you had the same experience with
the Archivo Nacional?
By the way, is there any information available stateside on the records
of the Colon cemetery?

Happy New Year 2001!
René

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mayra Sanchez-Johnson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: [CUBA] About hospital records


> I hate to spoil the idea, but I know for a fact that when you write to the
> Registro Civil, IF you get an answer is to ask you the exact numbering of
> the entry. They will not do the lookng and will not send the certificate
to
> the US. These people are government enployees, and communist gorvenment
to
> boot.
>
> You are much better oof writing to the church and hoping you get a priest
> that has the time to do the search.
>
> Mayra
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hughes, Rebecca B." <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 6:21 AM
> Subject: RE: [CUBA] About hospital records
>
>
> > thanks rene. I think that is probably a much better idea. I only have
> one
> > problem (one that is very embarrassing for me to admit). I was born in
> Cuba
> > but unfortunately do not know the language well enough to write a letter
> to
> > the Registro Civil to ask them. Do you think you could give me some
> > pointers. I understand everything but have never been formally trained
> > so...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rene Castellanos [mailto:]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 11:32 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: [CUBA] About hospital records
> >
> >
> > Hello Cecilia:
> > You are right, Maternidad Obrera was a newer hospital in El Vedado,
> > west towards Almendares. That makes 6 major hospitals on the list of
> > hospitals in La Habana city alone!
> > Rebecca, my father mentions that hospital records, if available may
offer
> > too little information for genealogical purpose--he suggests writing
> instead
> > to the "Registro Civil" of the locality your family lived in, i.e.
> Registro
> > Civil
> > del Vedado, etc.
> > Saludos
> > René
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cecilia Vaillant-Yanes" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 4:39 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CUBA] About hospital records
> >
> >
> > > Wasn't one of these in El Vedado, Maternidad Obrera?
> > > The name just jumped at me. That's where I popped into
> > > the world! Back in '59. My mother explained that many
> > > records were burned/destroyed at the onset of the
> > > Castro regime. Lord knows what if anything is left.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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