Recreating the Life of the Condesa de Merlin - Havana, Madrid, Paris
Last year in spring, before the volcanic ash made travel from London a nightmare, I went to Paris for a short break with my family. While there, I decided to search for the Condesa de Merlin’s final home in the Parisian Père Lachaise cemetery. Have you ever been to a cemetery that has avenues, chemins […]
I am living in eighteenth century Havana! All I seem to do is pour over street maps of the old city and track down houses and families in really arcane sources. Anyone interested in Cuban genealogy (yes there are actually multiple websites dedicated to this subject) knows about Historia de Familias Cubanas and its 9 volumes […]