This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: tdmv73 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.caribbean.cuba.general/10857.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I understand your frustration. I was searching for over two years for relatives from Cuba and it was an exercise in futility. I've recently hit a wealth of knowledge and attribute it to a few things I did differently, and I'll share my tips with you. - Use Google Books (books.google.com). Google has partnered with libraries and universities around the world to scan and make available online books, census information, troop rosters, lists or random things - everything. Limit your language results to Spanish only. The Spanish kept very good records in Nueva Espana and every day more and more of these records are coming online. - US Public Records only go so far. I started limiting my google searches to Spanish results only and long lost relatives started popping up everywhere. I never figured out why English searches didn't yield the same results. - Learn Spanish - finding the results is easy, interpreting is hard. Good luck! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Interesting idea--but how do you Google in Spanish? Or how do I limit my language results? Thanks for the help. Suzanne On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:27 AM, [email protected] wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: tdmv73 > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.caribbean.cuba.general/ > 10857.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > I understand your frustration. I was searching for over two years > for relatives from Cuba and it was an exercise in futility. I've > recently hit a wealth of knowledge and attribute it to a few things > I did differently, and I'll share my tips with you. > - Use Google Books (books.google.com). Google has partnered with > libraries and universities around the world to scan and make > available online books, census information, troop rosters, lists or > random things - everything. Limit your language results to Spanish > only. The Spanish kept very good records in Nueva Espana and every > day more and more of these records are coming online. > - US Public Records only go so far. I started limiting my google > searches to Spanish results only and long lost relatives started > popping up everywhere. I never figured out why English searches > didn't yield the same results. > - Learn Spanish - finding the results is easy, interpreting is hard. > Good luck! > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If > you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board > URL link above and respond on the board. > > > > ========================================== > To reply to a message from the surname Bulletin Board you must post > your answer on the Bulletin Board and not directly to the list. > ~~~~~~ > Para contestar un mensaje del tablero de pesquisas es necesario que > conteste por medio del tablero y no directamente a la lista. > ========================================== > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CUBA- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message