Cuba Genealogy

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Caribbean

Cuba

Guide to Cuba ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Information

Cuba is an island country in the Caribbean whose nearest neighbors are the United States, the Bahamas, Haiti, and Jamaica. It was formerly a colony of Spain. The official language is Spanish.

Cuba Online Genealogy Records

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Genealogy records are kept on the local level in Cuba.

Provinces

Cuba is divided into 16 provinces:

1. Pinar del Río
2. Artemisa
3. La Habana (city)
4. Mayabeque
5. Matanzas
6. Cienfuegos
7. Villa Clara
8. Sancti Spiritus
9. Ciego de Avila
10. Camagüey
11. Las Tunas
12. Granma
13. Holguín
14. Santiago de Cuba
15. Guantánamo
16. Isla de la Juventud