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Benjamin Andres Garcia
Benjamin Andres Garcia ✭
February 26, 2021 edited January 20, 2022 in Search
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  • Brett .
    Brett . ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 26, 2021

    @Benjamin Andres Garcia​ 

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    Benjamin

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    As an aside ...

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    I am "Tagging" this (General) 'Question' of yours in this "Community.FamilySearch" Forum, to some specific 'Groups' in the Forum being:

    (1)  "African American Genealogy Research"; and,

    (2)  "Southern States Family History Research" ... which includes: Alabama

    (3)  "Latin American Genealogy Research" ... which includes, Cuba

    in the hope that, the members of those groups may be able to answer/assist you.

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    Those Groups, are "Public", which you can join, if you wish. 

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    Brett

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    @African American Genealogy Research​ 

    @Southern States Family History Research​ 

    @Latin American Genealogy Research​ 

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  • Jenna Smith
    Jenna Smith ✭✭
    February 28, 2021

    @Benjamin Andres Garcia​ - In my experience finding vital records (and especially African American vital records) in Alabama is difficult before the 1930s. If you look in the FamilySearch catalog under Mobile County, Alabama - the birth records don't begin until 1920-1940.

     

    I don't know much about Cuban records but maybe a marriage or death record could be found in the records online (https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Cuba_Genealogy)

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  • LegacyUser
    LegacyUser ✭✭✭✭
    March 1, 2021

    Thank you. So far, I have only been able to find my father's (Andres Garcia) Cuban birth certificate, listing his father my grandfather's name Andres Garcia and my Grandfather's parents Andres ? and Ablaena Teresa. And nothing else from Cuban records. From family memories, my grandfather appears to have been a commercial diver and lost his life in a diving accident in Cuba in 1963. He was allegedly born in Alabama in 1897. I have a photograph of his headstone and pictures of him with my Jamaican born grandmother in Cuba. I also have a picture of him, a very handsome guy.

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  • DeborahCarl
    DeborahCarl ✭✭✭
    March 23, 2021

    Try here https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/African_American_Genealogy

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