The parish archive contains records from the Archivo de la Parroquia de San Francisco located in Tzintzuntzan. The archive has separate registries for baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and deaths.Ý The earliest records date from the late 1700s (after 1788) and continue with relatively little interruption to the present, except in the case of death records that ceased to be recorded at the parish around 1960.Ý Prof. George M. Foster copied all of the parish registers by hand and/or by photocopier during the 1960s and these paper copies are currently located at SMU in Dallas.Ý Subsequently, beginning in the early 1990s, Kemper organized an effort to record all of the information in these registries into computer files (using Microsoft Works, Spanish version).Ý This work is being done by local residents who have trained to do data entry on portable computers.
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999
19:35:12 +0100
From: Maria del Carmen
Pastor Cuevas <carmen@maria.lllf.uam.es>
To:
drwhite@orion.oac.uci.edu
Subject: Franciscan
archives from Morelia, Mejico
Dr. White
ÝÝÝ The parish archives that you are looking for must be preserved
at the Archive of
Archbishopric of Morelia (Michocan until 1922), that
is situated on the
Morelia's cathedral and on La Casa de Morelas in the
same city (there are
records from the 16th to the 20th century).
ÝÝÝ There is one CD-ROM made by the Instituto Nacional de
Antropologia e
Historia de Mejico that
include a descriptive guide of the documentary
series of those archives.
ÝÝÝ If the records that you look for they are the parish archives
of the
village of
Tzintzuntzan, they are preserved in the parish church of
Nuestra SeÒora de la
Natividad in that town (documentation from 1712).
Bibliography:
Garibay Alvarez,
Jorge, Guia de fuentes documentales parroquiales de
Mejico, Madrid,
Fundacion Historica Tavera, 1996, pp. 53-56.
ÝÝÝ I hope this information helps you in the
inquiry.
ÝÝÝ Yours sincerely
ÝÝÝÝÝÝÝ Maria del Carmen Pastor Cuevas.