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From: "Mayra Johnson" <>
Subject: Re: [CUBA-L] Re: Jaruco's research notes
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:18:05 -0600
References: <BAY106-F3159919B1C9D8B706E64CAADB00@phx.gbl>


Years ago as a volunteer of the Library, I indexed the letters A and B and I
think I still have the index on a disc. If you want to have them, let me
know and I'll look for them.

Mayra

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eduardo Ramos" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 11:56 PM
Subject: RE: [CUBA-L] Re: Jaruco's research notes


> Hello all, especially Denise.
>
> First of all, Denise, many thanks to you and your copy team for your work
> on these films. You've saved literally generations for us to research.
>
> Unfortunately, there is no index on the films. But since there's been talk
> of indexing the rolls and in order to avoid double work, I am pleased to
> announce The Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami is preparing to index all the
> surnames found in the rolls. We'll send an announcement to the CUBA-L as
> we finish each roll and put it on our website. We've been working on it
> for a few weeks now and it'll be a few months before we can complete it
> since we can only visit the center a couple of nights a week. It is not an
> easy task; some or parts of the papers are illegible or didn't copy well
> and the handwriting on others is difficult to read, but we are doing the
> best we can. The good news is that one of the rolls is about 2 thirds of
> the way through.
>
> As soon as we get the index on our website, we'll send a note to all our
> friends on the CUBA-L.
>
> Thanks again Denise for saving this for us!
>
> Eddie Ramos
> Founding Member, Director and President of the Cuban Genealogy Club of
> Miami, Florida, Inc.
> http://www.cubangenclub.org
>
>
>
>
>
>>From: Denise <>
>>Reply-To:
>>To:
>>Subject: [CUBA-L] Re: Jaruco's research notes
>>Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:41:31 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>Having worked with the papers that we are discussing, I can only say that
>>there were thousands of pages of information.
>>
>>To microfilm all of that data was a monumental task. I haven't seen the
>>microfiilms yet myself so I am curious about how they indexed the
>>information. The records were inn pretty good shape at the time that we
>>sent them to Salt Lake and it has taken many years for the process to be
>>complete. Hopefully they prepared an index of all the information and
>>not just the material that was easy to do. Comprisisng 4 rolls of
>>microfilm indicates that a great portion was indeed filmed.
>>
>>Denise
>>
>>
>>
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