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From: Lorraine and Alan Perry <>
Subject: 170,000 Cuban names !!!
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 02:57:21 -0400


Are you interested in researching your Cuban ancestors?

Would you like to be able to search, on line, a list of 170,000 Cuban
soldiers who fought in the war of 1895-1895? A list which includes
their first names, first and second surnames, parents' names, rank, date
of enlistment, and the regiment in which they served?

A group of volunteers, only 15 of us so far, but we hope many more will
sign up soon, have just begun to transcribe the Indice Alfabetico y
Defunciones del Ejercito Libertador de Cuba, also called the Roloff
Military Index, an approximately 2,000 page book published in 1901,
which includes all the above information. When it's complete it will be
published on line for all of us to use.

I have already found three entries who are definitely part of my family,
plus three more who might be related, and when the whole 170,000 names
are published, I'm sure there will be more.

So, what I want to ask is that you click on

http://www.cubagenweb.org/mambi.htm (in English) and then click on
"Instructions for transcribers" or click on
http://www.cubagenweb.org/e-mambi.htm (in Spanish) and read the
information there about this great project and decide to help us by
becoming a volunteer.

What will happen then is that you'll receive a package of about 10 pages
from the book by US mail, which you'll type into Excel, or into any word
processor, and then e-mail back to Maria de la Torres or Ed Elizondo.
Couldn't be easier. If you have a problem, such as not being able to
read a name on your list, or any other question, e-mail Maria and she'll
answer your question by return.

It's not necessary to be a fast typist. Care and accuracy are much more
important, but even then it doesn't take long. I did my first page in
less than an hour and I'm sure it'll get better as I go on. And it
doesn't matter if your native language is Spanish or English or neither,
it's just retyping names. Like I said, couldn't be easier.

I hope you'll help. Personally, I see this as a way to help repay the
members of this list who have helped me so generously over the years
<being serious>. Plus I want to be able to search the whole list for
those missing relatives <grin>.

Please forgive this being written only in English. If somebody would
like to translate it into Spanish and repost it, it would be most
appreciated.

Alan

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