Spanish Louisiana Books on FamilySearch

Looking for books regarding Spanish Louisiana history? Family History Books is a collection of more than 40,000 digitized genealogy and family history publications from the archives of some of the most important family history libraries in the world. The collection includes family histories, county and local histories, genealogy magazines and how-to books, gazetteers, and medieval histories and pedigrees.

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The Odyssey of the Canaries in Texas and Louisiana

Jose Balbuena's book "Odyssey of the Canary Castilian Texas and Louisiana", is not only a publication about facts of this historical epic of the Canarian colonial America, but also serves as a picture of their offspring born in this large American territory, which have expressed pride, heritage, have been able to convey generosity. Its author is a well known and excellent journalist who joined the newspaper The Province in 1972, writing many interesting features, interviews and chronicles of travel, making it one of the first journalists of the Canary Islands in the dissemination of specialized tourism issues.

See: http://www.anroart.com/catalogo/227 (Spanish)

Index to the Vicente Sebastián Pintado Papers

A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress.

Surveyor general of Spanish West Florida. Correspondence, bills of sale, court

transcripts, testimonies, surveys, notebooks, plats, land grants, maps, petitions, and other papers

relating principally to Pintado's duties as alcalde, commandant, and surveyor general.

See http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2008/ms008036.pdf (PDF)

Subjects

Deeds--Alabama.

Deeds--Florida.

Deeds--Louisiana.

Deeds--Mississippi.

Land grants--Alabama.

Land grants--Florida.

Land grants--Louisiana.

Land grants--Mississippi.

Land tenure--Alabama.

Land tenure--Florida.

Land tenure--Louisiana.

Land tenure--Mississippi.

Real property--Alabama.

Real property--Florida.

Real property--Louisiana.

Real property--Mississippi.

Places

Vicente Sebastián Pintado Papers 2Alabama--Maps, Manuscript.

Alabama--Surveys.

Florida--History--Spanish colony, 1784-1821.

Florida--Maps, Manuscript.

Florida--Surveys.

Louisiana--Maps, Manuscript.

Louisiana--Surveys.

Mississippi--Maps, Manuscript.

Mississippi--Surveys.

Spain--Colonies--America.

Looking for old maps of the Mississippi River, New Orleans, and surrounding areas? Check out the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library. They are dedicated to the creative educational use of its cartographic holdings, which extend from the 15th century to the present, including many Louisiana maps.

See: http://maps.bpl.org

Jose's Malaga Research

For those interested in the Malaguenos in Spain which sailed to Louisiana and founded New Iberia, José Manuel de de Molina works on this research in Spain and can be contacted. On his website he states:

"My webpage I offer my professional services as Historian, Archivist and Genealogical Professional. I have a wide experience and a comprehensive academic studies, providing legal services according with Spanish Law. You can read the different pages in the left menu including my references and activities tracing history and genealogy in Lousiana to Spanish ancestors. If you are looking for your family line in Spain and you need a professional genealogist service, I can help you. "

See: http://www.demolina.es/ (Spanish and English)
Email: jmdemolina@darrax.es

In Search of Galveztown

Rob Mann is Louisiana’s Southeast Regional Archeologist with a professional expertise in historical American archeology. He can identify the teacup and other artifacts unearthed from the Cambre greensward— fragments of French faience and coarse Spanish earthenware, brick rubble, nails, chunks of coal, pieces of bone— as evidence of daily life of the residents of Galveztown, a Spanish colonial community perched at the confluence of Bayou Manchac and the Amite River between 1779 and
1806.

See http://maryannsternberg.com/files/Galveztown.pdf (PDF)

NOLA.com: Delacroix, LA

A four part series on the Canary Islanders of Delacroix Island, Lousiana.

Today Delacroix and other fishing villages are either ghost towns, reclamation projects for sportsmen, or temporary boom towns for the BP disaster response. Some commercial fishermen still dock along the bayou, but they are commuters, driving in from communities on the protected side of the levees. Families that lived along the bayous for hundreds years have given up, chased away not just by the violence of recent storms, but the certainty of more to come. If there's new construction, it's largely by city anglers building recreational retreats.

See Part 1

See Part 2

See Part 3

See Part 4