Office of Ethnohistorical Research
Other Databases and Links

The following are tools for researchers interested in the history of northern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest:

DRSW holdings (partial):

Archivo General de Indias (AGI) holdings on microfilm (partial)

Regional Bibliography!

A massive bibliography on the archaeology, history, ethnology, and linguistics of this region, thanks to Julio Montané, a researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, in Hermosillo, Sonora.

Download the compressed bibliography (609k), which will "unzip" when you double-click on it. It is in "rtf" format, which almost any word-processing program can read.

Related websites:

• Web de Anza Spanish exploration and colonization of "Alta California", 1774-1776
• Mission 2000 A searchable database taken from parish records in Sonora.
• Handbook of Texas Online
• Ministerio de Cultura (Spain) This site includes the Archivo General de Indias (AGI) and other Spanish national archives.
• Archivo Franciscano collection at the Biblioteca Nacional in Mexico City
• Online Archives of New Mexico Search across finding aids for a variety of collections.
• New Mexico State University's Rio Grande Historical Collections
• Archivo Histórico de la Universidad Iberoamericana Torreón This site includes, among others, the parochial archive of Parras, known colloquially as "Maria y Matheo."
• Archivo General de la Nación (AGN) - Artes e Historia
• Latin American Network Information Center - LANIC
• Biblioteca Nacional of Spain
• Spain, United States, & the American Frontier A Library of Congress web-exhibition.