Spanish Archives Material: Not Just for Hispanics by Pamela Boyer Porter; Session part of 1998 National Genealogical Society Conference in the States; Porter grew up in Taos, New Mexico which gave her a base of knowledge of Spanish colonization in New Mexico and elsewhere in the United States, and the fact that looking for non-Hispanic records is much harder in these areas, as original Spanish colonial New Mexico ancestory records are extensive for those with that ancestry. No easily accesible single source of information about records of non-Hispanic settlers in the US in verious Spanish archive materials. If you're not Hispanic, why and how would these records help you with your own family history?: if you are from California or Texas they are especially relevent, but other states might not make sense. The history of the United States (as they are know now) started far before the Pilgrims with Spanish colonization; Spanish colonizers like Coronado explored the East Coast, South, Southwest, and some of the Mid-West like Kansas, Missiori and Nebraska, and the West Coast, as well through 1500s-1700s- even up in Alaska. Albuquerque was founded in 1706; The Spanish crown sent finacial help and even troops during the American Revolution from Florida. Spain sold the Lousiana Purchase to France, which was then sold to the United States, and then Flordia was sold to the US from Spain. Then all remaining Spanish territory (the Southwest) was in possession of Mexico, which the US then won and those records have non-Hispanic records for the Anglo settlers in those areas. 375 years of history and ancestry records. Spanish records available to genealogists: land records, church records, wills, censuses, legal records, births, marriges, deaths, immigrant records, etc. Records of enslaved Africans in Spanish records, with names and where they were taken. There are Native American records recorded in Spanish archival materials, as well, including slavery records, marriage records, etc. Look at local and state sources first! Genealogy; MP3 Converted, 1998

Spanish Archives Material: Not Just for Hispanics by Pamela Boyer Porter; Session part of 1998 National Genealogical Society Conference in the States; Porter grew up in Taos, New Mexico which gave her a base of knowledge of Spanish colonization in New Mexico and elsewhere in the United States, and the fact that looking for non-Hispanic records is much harder in these areas, as original Spanish colonial New Mexico ancestory records are extensive for those with that ancestry. No easily accesible single source of information about records of non-Hispanic settlers in the US in verious Spanish archive materials. If you're not Hispanic, why and how would these records help you with your own family history?: if you are from California or Texas they are especially relevent, but other states might not make sense. The history of the United States (as they are know now) started far before the Pilgrims with Spanish colonization; Spanish colonizers like Coronado explored the East Coast, South, Southwest, and some of the Mid-West like Kansas, Missiori and Nebraska, and the West Coast, as well through 1500s-1700s- even up in Alaska. Albuquerque was founded in 1706; The Spanish crown sent finacial help and even troops during the American Revolution from Florida. Spain sold the Lousiana Purchase to France, which was then sold to the United States, and then Flordia was sold to the US from Spain. Then all remaining Spanish territory (the Southwest) was in possession of Mexico, which the US then won and those records have non-Hispanic records for the Anglo settlers in those areas. 375 years of history and ancestry records. Spanish records available to genealogists: land records, church records, wills, censuses, legal records, births, marriges, deaths, immigrant records, etc. Records of enslaved Africans in Spanish records, with names and where they were taken. There are Native American records recorded in Spanish archival materials, as well, including slavery records, marriage records, etc. Look at local and state sources first! Genealogy; MP3 Converted, 1998, Box: 1. Albuquerque Bernalillo County Special Collections Library.

Spanish Archives Material: Not Just for Hispanics by Pamela Boyer Porter; Session part of 1998 National Genealogical Society Conference in the States; Porter grew up in Taos, New Mexico which gave her a base of knowledge of Spanish colonization in New Mexico and elsewhere in the United States, and the fact that looking for non-Hispanic records is much harder in these areas, as original Spanish colonial New Mexico ancestory records are extensive for those with that ancestry. No easily accesible single source of information about records of non-Hispanic settlers in the US in verious Spanish archive materials. If you're not Hispanic, why and how would these records help you with your own family history?: if you are from California or Texas they are especially relevent, but other states might not make sense. The history of the United States (as they are know now) started far before the Pilgrims with Spanish colonization; Spanish colonizers like Coronado explored the East Coast, South, Southwest, and some of the Mid-West like Kansas, Missiori and Nebraska, and the West Coast, as well through 1500s-1700s- even up in Alaska. Albuquerque was founded in 1706; The Spanish crown sent finacial help and even troops during the American Revolution from Florida. Spain sold the Lousiana Purchase to France, which was then sold to the United States, and then Flordia was sold to the US from Spain. Then all remaining Spanish territory (the Southwest) was in possession of Mexico, which the US then won and those records have non-Hispanic records for the Anglo settlers in those areas. 375 years of history and ancestry records. Spanish records available to genealogists: land records, church records, wills, censuses, legal records, births, marriges, deaths, immigrant records, etc. Records of enslaved Africans in Spanish records, with names and where they were taken. There are Native American records recorded in Spanish archival materials, as well, including slavery records, marriage records, etc. Look at local and state sources first! Genealogy; MP3 Converted, 1998, Box: 1. Albuquerque Bernalillo County Special Collections Library. https://nmarchives.unm.edu/repositories/9/archival_objects/536118 Accessed November 22, 2024.