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Please email the webmaster here with any dead or outdated links.
Please note that some sites are in Spanish. You can use this website - http://babelfish.altavista.com/ - for translations, however please note that this is simply a translation engine, and not very accurate. It is simply a way for you to try to read the content in some way.
East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court's Website
A 20 year index of genealogy for Terrebonne Parish - http://www.rootsweb.com/~laterreb/20years-02.htm
Huge, searchable national database on the Civil War - http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
The US Library of Congress has recently made available an interactive on-line index to the more than 15,000 names included in the 88 volume work Enciclopedia Heráldica y Genealógica Hispano-Americana of Alberto and Arturo Garcia Carraffa. The index also encompasses the continuation work by Endika de Mogrobejo, and displays a list of the libraries in the US that have the Carraffa work in their collection. By using this search engine you can find the names, volume and page number where the names appear in the Enciclopedia. The index is located at: Index to the Enciclopedia Heraldica Hispano-Americana of Alberto and Arturo Garcia Carraffa. . We have added this information to our Lookup Your Surnames web page.
Index of deaths from the Baton Rouge Gazette 1820-1853 - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brgazette/deaths.htm
Paul Newfield's Brass Cannon Site - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brasscannon/
Genealogy index of the Falcon family - http://gw.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=falcanary&lang=en;m=N;v=falcon
An article detailing the many varied repositories and sources that are available for researchers in the Canary Islands. (En Espanol) - http://nti.educa.rcanaria.es/culturacanaria/f_documentales/fuentes_documentales.htm
Genealogy index for the Terrebonne parish genealogical group. Many Canary Island names are indicated - http://www.rootsweb.com/~laterreb/
Hispanic genealogy site (En Espanol) - http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/1132/indice.htm
An index of Spanish names with their coat of arms and a brief description (En Espanol) - http://heraldicahispana.com/BIB/BiblioA.htm
A site on palaeography (study of reading old handwriting), useful for deciphering old documents - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/
An excerpt from "The Regiment of Louisiana and the Spanish Army in the American Revolution.", by Thomas E. DeVoe, and Gregory J. W. Urwin. - http://members.cox.net/spanishlouisiana/history.htm
A beautifully written story of one of the ancient heroes of the Canary Islands, a chief named Doramas, and how his name has come down to us in the 21st century. The site also includes genealogical charts for the Doramas family. (En Espanol) - http://webpages.ull.es/users/joramas/apellido/doramas.htm
Brief history of the Canary Islands migration to Spanish America along with ship passenger lists - http://www.rootsweb.com/~prhgs/passengers_01.htm#Migration
Information about Spain's involvement in the American Revolutionary War, including information about Galvez and the Canary Islanders in Louisiana. - http://www.sar.org/mxssar/spinvo-1.htm
Information on Captain Joseph M. Gonzales, grandson of an Islenos soldier at Galveztown - http://www.civilwarfamilyhistory.com/new_page_16.htm
An article about the history and ways of the Islenos by a man in the St. Bernard area - http://www.louisianafolklifefest.org/Articles/2002f2.htm
History of Lanzarote - http://www.webdelanzarote.com/1400e.htm
LIBRO - Library of Iberian Resources Online - http://libro.uca.edu/title.htm
Louisiana historical timeline for the year 1779 - http://www.enlou.com/time/year1779.htm
This shows the flag of the Louisiana Infantry Regiment, used during the Spanish period. It would have been our ancestors' regimental flag - http://flagspot.net/flags/es^1779.html
Somos Primos - An online publication dedicated to past and present articles, events and information concerning Hispanic heritage issues - http://www.somosprimos.com/
A list of Spanish language manuscripts in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley collections of LSU libraries - http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/guides/spancoll.html#G
Documents from the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas (1576-1803). Contains information on some Islenos. - http://www.archives.nd.edu/mano/default.htm
Information about the Archivo General de Indias - http://www.sar.org/mxssar/spflor.htm
The Regiment of Louisiana Flag and Uniform (Requires Adobe Acrobat) - http://www.canaryislanders.org/39.pdf
Information on the Nunez History Lecture Series, including a schedule of upcoming lectures - http://www.historylectureseries.com/
Canary Islanders Descendants Association (St. Bernard) - http://www.canaryislanders.com/
*The link above is a PDF file that requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you have problems viewing it, you can download the reader here.
Coastal area of Tenerife covered here, historical discussion of persons in the XV & XVI centuries (En Espanol) -http://usuarios.arsystel.com/pedrobaez/ingenios/personajes.htm
An archive of old photographs from the Canary Islands. (En Espanol) - http://www.fotosantiguascanarias.org/index.cfm
Informational site on the island of Tenerife - http://www.puntoinfo.idecnet.com/index.php?idioma=2
Tenerife News - http://www.tennews.com/
Flags of the Canary Islands - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/3642/index_en.htm
Pictures of the Canary Islands (lots of really great pictures here!) - http://www.bamjam.net/Canarias/
An online magazine about the Canary Islands. Has some good cultural information (En Espanol) - http://www.bienmesabe.org/
A link to a Canary Islanders Heritage Society in Puerto Rico (En Espanol) - http://groups.msn.com/BoricuasCanarios
State Archives Online Multimedia Archives - http://sos.louisiana.gov/multimedia/
Friends of the Canary Islands - Canary Islands heritage society in San Antonio, Texas - http://www.friendsofthecanaryislands.org/
MORE COMING SOON...
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