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Letters of Immigrants to New Spain

Published by arturoramos -

Has anyone heard or seen this book? Has anyone used such publications for genealogical research?

Author: Otte, Enrique
Title: Cartas Privadas de Emigrantes a Indias, 1540-1616

Published by arturoramos - Fri, 2006-07-14 13:08 | Permalink

I just found the book on Abe Books in Spanish. It appears there are tons of used editions of what appears to be an English version of the book or at least a derivative work thereof. They appear to be leftovers from some sort of Mexican colonial history course or something.

I will definitely scan in the name index when I get the book and put it in the reference files section. You can see most of it in the preview provided by Google Books:

http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9681639758&id=-zOcAD_LhD8C&prints…

Published by cnndominguez - Fri, 2006-07-14 11:00 | Permalink

Arturo,
I have the book....it's absolutely excellent! It's filled with
lots of letters (mostly LONG ones) from those in Mexico to their
loved ones in Spain, usually with very descriptive identifiers
for the parties involved (i.e. for the sender and recipient).
It is indexed and I'd be glad to do lookups.

The letters are an awesome source for the genealogist because
they're very personal. They contain requests for loved ones to
join them (or not, because of dangers), they tell what they're
up to, where they've been, ask about family members back in
Spain. Several I've read explain that they have sent money with
so and so, who's arriving at such & such port, and this is money
for passage for the rest of the family.

Definitely worth it! I bought mine in Juarez. Don't know where
it's available, but if you can get your hands on it, I think
you'd find it worthwhile for research of that time period.

Let me know what you need.

Sincerely,

Connie

Connie Dominguez
El Paso, TX, USA

Your book sounds wonderful!
And it's very generous of you to offer to do look ups.

Can you share the index with us?

I'll bet there's at least one Romo, or Rangel ancestor of mine in there.

Have a good weekend. My dad was from El Paso. Ysleta to be precise, although the city and my father are just memories now.

This book is available at:

CARTAS PRIVADAS DE EMIGRANTES A INDIAS, 1540-1616 HISPANIC GENEALOGY Item
#1044 CARTAS PRIVADAS DE EMIGRANTES A INDIAS, 1540-1616 Author: Enrique Otte
...
www.borderlandsbooks.com/
ourbooks.asp?catid=1&sortid=ItemAuthorLast&alphabetvar=O

Check it out....

Josie in San Antonio

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Your book sounds wonderful!
And it's very generous of you to offer to do look ups.

Can you share the index with us?

I'll bet there's at least one Romo, or Rangel ancestor of mine in there.

Have a good weekend. My dad was from El Paso. Ysleta to be precise, although
the city and my father are just memories now.

I was wondering if there was anything on any Robles or Pedro Sepulveda, or ANdres Tapia, or Alonso ALbernoz de Sosa or Bernabe de las Casas?

I have a book that may interest others. "The Econmenderos of New Spain 1521-1555" by Robert Himmerich y Valencia. The book is available from Borderland Books in San Antonio. I am willing to do lookups.

Esther Herold

Genealogy Research