Ecclesiastical Records

Santa Clara/Las Villas Province

About Santa Clara/Las Villas Churches Collection

As of March 2023, we have 2 churches represented.
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About the Province

Santa Clara was known as Las Villas after 1940. It is a historical province of Cuba. After 1976, its territory was divided into the modern Cuban provinces of Villa Clara, Cienfuegos, and Sancti Spíritus.

Cuban Church Records and Archives

A presentation on Cuban Church Records and Archives given by Fr. Juan Luis Sanchez on July 14, 2008 is offered here for dissemination with his permission.

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A recording of this presentation is available for members on the Members Only-Videos Page

Alphabetical Index Supplement for the Provinces of Habana, Las Villas and Pinar del Rio, Cuba
Source:  REVISTA (the quarterly publication of the Cuban Genealogical Society)
An alphabetical index of all the transcriptions from the various parishes of La Habana, Guanabacoa, Cienfuegos, Las Villas, and San Matias de Rio Blanco in Pinar del Rio that was published in REVISTA from 2000 to 2007. This index supplements the previous indices for the provinces of Habana and Las Villas that were published in 1995. In addition, it has the Province of Pinar del Rio, which did not have an index published previously. The first few pages explain how to read the entries in the index.
All of the REVISTA editions are available on CubaGenWeb.

British Library's Endangered Archives Programme

Other
Resources

Slave Societies Digital Archive at Vanderbilt University

The Slave Societies Digital Archive (SSDA), 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.
Slave Societies teams digitally captured ecclesiastical records of more than 750,000 individuals during almost three years of intensive work in Cuba and Brazil. Beginning in 2007, another grant allowed the group to preserve additional records at new project locations in Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba.

Visit SSDA

La Purísima Concepción Cathedral in Cienfuegos, Cuba

The church is currently located at Ave. 56 #2902 between 29 and 31 in the city of Cienfuegos, province of Cienfuegos.

Church Documents on SSDA

View Files - La Purisima Concepcion

Alphabetical Index of the Parish Registers of Las Villas, Cuba by the Cuban Genealogical Society*

This alphabetical index includes all the transcription from the Cathedral of the city of Santa Clara, and the city of Remedios. This index includes all the transcriptions available for the province of Oriente, which were made by Francisco Xavier de Santa Cruz and his associates.

The transcriptions were published in a number of issues of REVISTA, the quarterly publication of the Cuban Genealogical Society, since 1988. The information contained in the following index has the same format as the listings published, with the exception of the source number, to which it has been added the number of the REVISTA where it appeared first.

The format consists of the following information:
First column is Surmame; Second column is Name; Third column is Sex; Fourth column is Date of the event or ceremony; Fifth column is Type of event: M=marriage, B=baptism, D=death, C=confirmation,
G=related to the person performing the ceremony, usually a parent or previous spouse, or a witness to the ceremony; Sixth is the Source Number which consists of the following codes: 6 digits of source; (,) 5 digits of book and page or page only; (#) entry number; (R) REVÍSTA volume and issue number.

When finding a name that you are interested in, make note of the Source Number, date, and parish, then refer to the REVISTA issue that has the entry published with all the members of the families in question together as an entry. This process will give you the names of all the persons involved in the ceremony.

Note:
The surnames and given names have been kept in the form that appeared in the original transcription, even though it was sometimes obvious that the spelling was not the one used in modern times.
In order to find a surname that you are interested in, please consider and check all the possible spellings for that name. For Example: Jiménez and Ximenez; Avalo and Abalo, etc.

*The Cuban Genealogical Society is now defunct. We are grateful to Mayra Sanchez-Johnson for her work.

San Juan Bautista de Remedios Church in Remedios, Cuba

The Parish Church of San Juan Bautista, located in the heart of Remedios, is composed of the main church, Parroquial Mayor de San Juan Bautista, and a chapel known as Ermita del Buenviaje. The two religious structures are magnificent examples of Spanish colonial architecture in the Caribbean. The history of the main church dates to the late sixteenth century, but the current architectural core was constructed in the first half of the eighteenth century in a Moorish Renaissance style with baroque features. It is renowned for its polychrome coffered ceiling and gilded altar. The neoclassical bell tower was added in 1850, and a second level to the sacristy in the early 1900s. Ermita del Buenviaje is a single-nave neoclassical chapel with a bell tower, but reflects Moorish and Spanish influences. A chapel occupied the site as early as the sixteenth century, though the current design dates to 1819 and was rebuilt in 1867 after a fire.

The main church was declared a National Monument in 1949, and the same designation was extended to the entire town of Remedios in 1980. The church is located at Plaza Isabel II Remedios, Cuba.

Alphabetical Index of the Parish Registers of Las Villas, Cuba by the Cuban Genealogical Society*

This alphabetical index includes all the transcription from the Cathedral of the city of Santa Clara, and the city of Remedios. This index includes all the transcriptions available for the province of Oriente, which were made by Francisco Xavier de Santa Cruz and his associates.

The transcriptions were published in a number of issues of REVISTA, the quarterly publication of the Cuban Genealogical Society, since 1988. The information contained in the following index has the same format as the listings published, with the exception of the source number, to which it has been added the number of the REVISTA where it appeared first.

The format consists of the following information:
First column is Surmame; Second column is Name; Third column is Sex; Fourth column is Date of the event or ceremony; Fifth column is Type of event: M=marriage, B=baptism, D=death, C=confirmation,
G=related to the person performing the ceremony, usually a parent or previous spouse, or a witness to the ceremony; Sixth is the Source Number which consists of the following codes: 6 digits of source; (,) 5 digits of book and page or page only; (#) entry number; (R) REVÍSTA volume and issue number.

When finding a name that you are interested in, make note of the Source Number, date, and parish, then refer to the REVISTA issue that has the entry published with all the members of the families in question together as an entry. This process will give you the names of all the persons involved in the ceremony.

Note:
The surnames and given names have been kept in the form that appeared in the original transcription, even though it was sometimes obvious that the spelling was not the one used in modern times.
In order to find a surname that you are interested in, please consider and check all the possible spellings for that name. For Example: Jiménez and Ximenez; Avalo and Abalo, etc.

*The Cuban Genealogical Society is now defunct. We are grateful to Mayra Sanchez-Johnson for her work.

The Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami, Florida, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit designated organization founded in February of 2001.

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