Assuming that the family owned race horses, I looked in the Social Directory of La Habana for 1958 and 1957 and found no Herminia Valdez(sp?). I also looked in the Cuban Social Directory of Miami (72-88) and found no Herminia Valdez(sp?). The La Habana telephone directory of 1958 has three pages of Valdes. There are three Herminia Valdes listed; Avenida Belgica 517, 55-4312; Enamorados 157, 4-3487; and 27 de Noviembre 1, 70-7378. Valdes with a "z" is not a common surname and there is no listing anywhere of any Valdez. The 1958 White Pages for La Habana did not show any Valdez with a "z", to my surprise the 2002 White Pages for La Habana listed 61 Valdez with a "z". Sorry no Herminia. The US Social Security death index show five Herminia Valdez, 4 in Texas and one Herminia Valdez who was born in 1912, the social security card was issued in New York and she passed away in Tampa in 1994. Jorge