Chibas’ family roots go back to Catalonia, Spain, and several ancestors — Eduardo Agramonte and Ignacio Agramonte — were among Cuba’s founding fathers in the fight for independence from Spain.

An extensive set of family trees, civil records and sacramental documents is now available on the Internet. It references thousands of Hispanic surnames and gives everyone from the Abadias to the ...

Ruth Behar mines family lore for 'Letters From Cuba,' a book for readers ages 8-12 about a pre-teen Polish-Jewish girl's solo journey to life in remote sugar plantation town ...