GENEALOGY--GENERAL

--  MEXICO  and the Borderlands  --

Towns (& Parishes) Extracted Vital & Church Records

• Select Area t/b researched below..
• NOTE: Only those states that have been researched at this time have LINKS to the IGI Batch Nos....
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 Search Engines for MEXICO.

PRECISA to search Government (in Spanish) resources, etc...

LANIC (WWW-Virtual Library) for searching (in English) web resources, etc... 

Collections of various Search Engines for Mexico.

MEXICO

(Facts & Map) -- (Large Map).

-- Adminstrative Divisions:  31 states (estados, singular - estado) and 1 federal district* (distrito federal);

Review (& Links) of Latin America Electronic Resources -- GREAT

Bancroft's Latin America Collections & Resources Site.(UCB) -- GREAT

Univ. Texas Unique Border History Special Collections & Microfilm -- GREAT

• Mexico Gen Web.
• Cyndi's List for Hispania, Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Mexico-Web (Culture & History).  (GREAT, just enter the Mexican State of interest).
• Archivo General Guatemala (also use for the southern Mexican states).
• Collegio de San Francisco Javier (Contains some early Mss of the Conquest of Mexico, etc...)
• Interactive maps of Mexico (Very Detailed).
• National Archives: Archivo General de la Nacion (Mexico City)  {in Spanish}
• • Guide to the Archivo General de la Nacion (ETEXT).  (to use Babel fiche).
  • Guide to the Archivo General de la Nacion's Census holdings.
• National Library: Biblioteca de Mexico (Mexico City)  {in Spanish}
• • Special Collections sites:
  • • Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia
    • Biblioteca Nacional de México. Archivos y manuscritos e Iconoteca
    • Biblioteca Nacional de México. Colecciones de obras raras y valiosas
    • College of Mexico Pedregal de Santa Teresa, México El Colegio de México
• Universities in Mexico (Web Browser listing)

• Various Resource Sites for Mexico
• • El Archivo Histórico de Notarías - (Estado Archivo in Mexico City).
  • The Land Laws of Mexico.
  • Iberoamerican University Mexico City, México
  • El Archivo del Poder Judicial - Estado Archivo in Pachuca).
  • El Archivo Historico del Estado de Mexico
  • Genesis University Monterrey, México
  • ITESM Monterrey, México
  • Regiomontana University Monterrey, México
  • Archivo General del Poder Ejecutivo (Estado de Oaxaca).
  • University of the Americas - Puebla Puebla, México
  • Palafoxiana Library Puebla, México
  • ITESM - Querétaro Querétaro, México
  • Instituto Zacatecas de la Cultura Ramon Lopes Velarde.(IZC)
  • Mexiquense College Toluca, México

• Genealogical & History Resources for Mexico:
• • History of Coahuila site. (Spanish).
  • Mission Church of the Sonoran Desert. (English)
  • ON-line newspapers and periodicals for Mayan Regions (Spanish).

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• THE BORDERLANDS:
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•  (Borderlands defn: Those US STATES which were under the Spanish/Mexican Rule, from California to Florida).
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• 1797 Map of North America (Morse).
• February 2, 1848
  Treaty of Guadalupe Hildaldo signed which ends the Mexican War, assures Texas statehood, and recognizes the Rio Grande as southern boundary of Texas.
  For $15 million, Mexico cedes a large portion to US that later makes up all of California, Nevada, and Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming.

1. History of the Borderlands.
2. La Frontera and the Borderlands.

The Eastern States (those East of the Mississippi):

• LASER -- Latin America Studies --Southeast Resources Center Site.
• • Latin American & Caribbean Center Collections. (Florida International Univ.)
• The Western States (those West of the Mississippi):
• Arizona/US Borderlands
• • Ariz. State Museum's DRSW Documents of the Southwest -- GREAT.
  • Tucson's Hispanic Community.
  • Genealogical Links & Resources, (some early)...
• California/US Borderlands.

1. 1. (Early Alta California) Spanish & Mexican Land Grants,  AND 1855--1875 Maps. {U.S.Surveyor General for CA ,(Sec./State)}
   2. Ranchos of California. {inc. list of Ranchos by County}
   3. Historical Journals on California Settlement. and Historical Books on California...
   4. The Discovery & Earliest Exploration of the Gulf of California. {S.D.H.S.}
   5. Spanish Exploration & Colonization of Alta California, 1774-1776. {Web de Anza Site}
   6. Pioneer Spanish Families of California. {ETEXT} click on 'Next Page' to continue to read text....
   7. Los Pobladores -- 1st families of Los Angeles, and members of the early ANZA expedition to LA.
   8. The Colonization of Monterey.
   9. The people who colonized San Diego. {S.D.H.S.}
   10. First Picture of San Francisco Settlement (1806).
   11. Bibliographies of CA Missions & other Hispanic Sites.
   12. Soc.Hispanic Hist.&Ances. Research.{SHHAR} Spanish inCA{bd}
   13. Family-Related Papers (Bancroft Finding Aids):  { A - C }  {D - G }  {H - L }  { M-O }  { P-S }  { T-Z }.

• New Mexico/US Borderlands.
• • Origins of N.Mexico Families in the Spanish Colonial Period (ON-Line).
• Texas/US Borderlands.
• • Resource Center for TX Colonial Period 1585-1836. (UT-Austin)
  • Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
  • Hispanic Genealogical Society.
  • Spanish & Mexican Land Grants (TX G.L.O.)
  • Catholic Archives of Texas (in Austin)