Corrine, Arturo and all,

A few years ago I participated in extracting passport registers from Spain
for a project undertaken by Brigham Young University. An online, searchable
database was created for passports issued from 1790 onward. The link to the
website is:
http://immigrants.byu.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=4&tabid=19

Maria Cortez

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> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 08:45:09 -0700 (PDT)
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> Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] PARES
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> Corrine:
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> You are correct that all of the records that used to be on AER are now
> accessible through PARES. The system is actually much more functional than
> the old one. What is the exact problem you are having?
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> I think the search you are doing is not going to give you any results. The
> Casa de Contratacion only kept track of people migrating to the Americas
> through the 1700s. By the mid-1800s Mexico was an independent country and
> therefore Spanish authorities had no control over who could migrate there.
> I know that for later years there are immigration records at Archivo
> General de la Nacion (in Mexico City) which has some records online as well,
> but the mid-1800s may be a lacuna in terms of available immigration records.
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