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From: "Mayra Sanchez-Johnson" <>
Subject: Re: [CUBA-L] Nobregas or Nobrega
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:52:00 -0600
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Congratulations!

Mayra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eduardo Ramos" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 8:48 PM
Subject: [CUBA-L] Nobregas or Nobrega


> Hi all,
>
> I had a bit of incredible luck the previous weekend that I'd like to share
> with you and that may be of assistance. At the recommendation of my
> great-aunt, I visited a very distant relative (who I had never met)to
> consult about one of our branches that I thought had hit a brick wall.
This
> branch is from Bayamo which was burned around 1868, along with all it's
> records. As it turns out this very gracious near 90 year old gentleman had
> his father's birth certificate. The grandparents on his father's birth
> certificate are my Great-Great-Great-Grandparents! I now have a "new"
> surname to check out which is Nobregas or Nobrega. They were from the
Bayamo
> area as I mentioned but maybe from Manzanillo specifically.
>
> Does anyone have any info on this name? I didn't find it in Jaruco and
I've
> only seen it in family histories a few times. If someone has Levi
Marrero's
> "La Isla Abierta" (I think that's the name) could you please check the
name
> for me?
>
> Another little bit of "icing on the cake" was that one of the witnesses
> listed in the birth certificate (not a baptismal certificate) was my
> Great-Grandmother who I thought was from Bayamo. The certificate listed
her
> as "natural" from another city which means there's a glimmer of hope in
> finding her documents.
>
> Moral of the story, talk to every last member of your family, no matter
how
> distant and be sure to pry for as much details or documents as possible!
> And...don't give up hope!
>
> Thanks for letting me share and I hope someone can help me with my "new"
> surname.
>
> Eddie
>
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