Collections
(noun) an accumulation of objects gathered for study, comparison, or exhibition
About Collections
Links to collections of interest to the Cuban family historian and genealogist.
Historias de Familias Cubanas
See our Digitized Books Page
Garcia Carrafa Books
See our Digitized Books Page
Florida International University Special Collections has placed part of the Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza Collection of Cuban Genealogy on the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC).
A culmination of three years of research and processing, thousands of unpublished family genealogies and manuscripts are now available online for genealogical research. The digital collection provides a Directory by Family Name and is also searchable by subject.
The Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza Collection was acquired by FIU Libraries Special Collections in 2012 and includes rare 17th and 18th century books, handwritten and typed letters, long out-of-print publications and periodicals, photos and other primary documents relating to Cuba and Cuban genealogy, collected over four decades by Felix Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza. Access to the collection is also available in the Green Library at Florida International University Special Collection and University Archives.
FIU Special Collections and University Archives was very thankful to volunteers, Lourdes del Pino and Mariela Fernandez from the Cuban Genealogy Club, who helped organize and digitize the Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza Collection.
SEARCH FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY'S CATALOG FOR BOOKS FROM THE COLLECTION
- Browse over to library.fiu.edu
- In search box type in “Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza collection” (without the quotes)
- A page with multiple results will open.
- Choose “Series” from the dropdown menu next to the box with Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza collection
- Click Search – The results will show the books in this collection.
- Note the call number and bring with you to the Special Collections!
The collection includes books, manuscripts, archives, artifacts and media and spans the history, development and culture of Latin America, the Caribbean, Miami and South Florida. Primary source materials are available in the reading room for discovery and research.
In addition, they are committed to increasing access to their collections through digitization.
Cuban historian Levi Marrero, author of the multi-volume History of Cuba, donated a large manuscript collection of the documents used to write his history to Florida International University (FIU.) In addition he donated other research materials, items selected for inclusion in his books and correspondence. This archive represents the personal papers donated to FIU.
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. See our Newspapers Page.
The principal collections from which digital content is drawn are the East Florida Papers, the Joseph Byrne Lockey Collection, the John Batterson Stetson Collection,
the Papeles de Cuba, and Spanish Colonial St. Augustine.
University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection include published works such as rare and contemporary books, journals, artists books, and newspapers, as well as archival materials including personal papers, organizational records, correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, maps, works on paper, audiovisual content, ephemera, and growing born-digital and digitized collections.
The National Archive of the Republic of Cuba was founded on January 28, 1840, under the name of the General Archive of the Royal Treasury. It was the fifth of these institutions created in Latin America. They have documentation in 221 collections of the successive colonial and neocolonial administrations and some of the revolutionary period. Also those generated by public notaries, advisory bodies, societies, companies, institutes, museums, and universities.
The José Martí National Library of Cuba (BNCJM) was founded in October 1901 by a notable group of Cuban intellectuals and is promoted by a rich and cultured tradition of the love of reading, and of care and preservation of libraries.
University of Central Florida
Be sure to also check out our Spanish Florida pages, starting here.
The Florida Historical Quarterly
A leading scholarly publication and journal of record in Florida history. Published four times a year by the Florida Historical Society.
St. Augustine Historical Society (SAHS) Research Library
6 Artillery Lane
St. Augustine, Fl. 32084
(904)825-2333
Contact: bobnawrocki@sahs1883.com
Library Collections
Online Catalog
Other Resources
“El Escribano” (The Scribe or Notary)
Publication of SAHS since January 1955. It is sent to members and libraries.
El Escribano on WorldCat
PARES (Spanish Archives)
Propiedades de Floridanos a los Britanicos – 1772
Description: File of the sale of real and private property of San Agustin de la Florida after its delivery to the English crown – Feb / Mar 1772 (Folios 658-691)
Slave Societies Digital Archive at Vanderbilt University
The Slave Societies Digital Archive (formerly Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies), directed by Jane Landers at Vanderbilt University, was launched in 2003. It is dedicated to identifying, cataloging, and digitally preserving endangered archival materials documenting the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World.
In 2014, The Historic St. Augustine Research Institute funded further digitization work in Matanzas and Ceiba Mocha, Cuba.
All these records focus on Africans and Afro-descended individuals, but the Catholic Church also sometimes recorded Europeans, indigenous, and Chinese individuals in the same volumes.
Baptisms, Burials and Marriages – 16th & 17th Centuries
Description: Baptisms, Burials and Marriages contains records created in Florida during the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. All records in Box 1 contain information on indios, negros, and españoles. It has the earliest baptismal, marriage, and burial records of the collection. All of these records seem to have originally comprised a bound volume due to the presence of a title page that reads “Libro de baptismos y matrimonios y entierros hechos en la ciudad de San Agustin de la Florida.”
The baptismal records range from 15 June 1594 to 8 January 1616 and comprise folios 4r-41v. The burial records range from 162[1] to 1631 and comprise folios 81r-83v. The marriage records have two separate date and folio ranges. The first set of marriage records ranges from 2 February 1594 through 14 June 1616 and comprises folios 84r-96v. The second set of marriage records ranges from 23 November 1643 to 27 December 1676 and comprise folios 3r-6_v.
Other Sources
USGenWeb Archives
Archive.org
- Florida Militia Muster Rolls, Seminole Indian Wars. 10 Vols. Also available on dLOC