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Hispanic Local History and Genealogy in the United States: Selected Titles at The Library of Congress

XVII. Catalogs and Archives

  • The Bexar Archives at the University of Texas Archives. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1989-1991. 172 microfilm reels.
    LC call number: Microfilm 20,302 <MssRR>
    LC control number: 90956369
    Catalog Record
    This collection, also called "The Spanish Archives," contains 80,795 documents on military, civil, political, social, and religious life between 1699 and 1836 in the Spanish province of Texas, the Mexican state of Coahuila and the Spanish colony of Louisiana. Genealogists will find family relationships, activities of ancestors such as duels and love affairs, places of residence, occupations, and connections between families. Printed guides accompany the collection.

  • The Bexar Archives translations. Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1989. 26 microfilm reels.
    LC call number: Microfilm 89/8816 (C) <MicRR>
    LC control number: 89894719
    Catalog Record
    Translations into English of the documents in the "Bexar Archives." Each reel begins with a table of contents that describes and dates all documents on the reel and ends with a name and subject index.

  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Genealogical Dept.
    Preliminary survey of the Mexican collection. Susan M. Cottler, Roger M. Haigh, Shirley A. Weathers. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1978. xlvii, 163 p. Ill.
    LC call number: CD3678 .A1 G46 1978
    LC control number: 78071761
    Catalog Record
    Finding aids to the microfilmed manuscript collection of the Genealogical Society of Utah; no. 1.

  • Documentary relations of the Southwest. [Tucson, Ariz.: Available from DRSW Project Director, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, 1974-198 . To date 98 negative microfiches.
    LC call number: Microfiche 89/9032 (Z)
    LC control number: 86892652
    Catalog Record

  • Moya, Salvador de.
    Bibliografía heráldico-genealógica. São Paulo: Revista Genealógica Brasileira, 1955-. Facsims.
    LC call number: Z5313 .L37 M69 CS95
    LC control number: 79104405
    Catalog Record

  • Spain. Dirección General de Archivos y Bibliotecas.
    Guía de fuentes para la historia de Ibero-América conservadas en España. 2 vols. Madrid, 1966-69.
    LC call number: CD941 .G83 vol. 4 Hisp RR
    LC control number: 72321760
    Catalog Record

  • Tapia y Rivera, Alejandro, editor.
    Biblioteca histórica de Puerto-Rico que contiene varios documentos de los siglos XV, XVI, XVII y XVIII coordinados y anotados. 2. ed. San Juan de Puerto Rico, 1945. 612 p. 1 l. incl. tables (2 fold.).
    LC call number: F1973 .T17 1945
    LC control number: 46002220
    Catalog Record

  • Ulibarri, George S., and John P. Harrison.
    Guide to materials on Latin America in the National Archives of the United States.Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1988. x, 489 p.
    LC call number: CD3028 .L37 U54 1988 <Alc MRR>;CD3028 .L37 U54 1988 <HispRef>
    LC control number: 87600201
    Catalog Record

  • University of Texas at Austin.
    The Béxar Archives, 1717-1836: a name guide. Compiled and edited by Adán Benavides, Jr. 1st edition. Austin: Published by the University of Texas Press for the University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, 1989. xxii, 1,171 p. Maps.
    LC call number: CD3539 .A888 B46 1989
    LC control number: 88037676
    Catalog Record

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