Hispanic Heritage Project · Since 1998
Building the research tool colonial genealogy has always needed.
Panes is a free, open archive of colonial Spanish American records — parish registers, marriage dispensas, census rolls, notarial protocols, and Inquisición files from Nueva España, the Spanish Caribbean, and the Iberian peninsula, 1571 to 1875. Rebuilt from scratch. No paywall.
- Parral Fondo Colonial — 4,138 records indexed
- Dispensas — 38,600+ records · Guadalajara and Valladolid
- Colonial Families — Durango · 924 families · interactive atlas
- Colonial Families — Chihuahua · interactive atlas
- Census Records — 132 padrones · 1649–1864
- Protocolo Notarial — 1,626 instruments · 1600–1705
- Inquisición Records — 220 documents · AGN microfilm
- Reference Catalogs — AHMP, AHAD, AGHMD
- Full archive migration — 82,504 files to R2
- Site rebuild — bilingual EN/ES · search, browse, finding aids
- $2,500 Jalisco Colonial Families — interactive atlas
- $5,000 Person-level search across the full corpus
- $7,500 Durango Colonial index — document-level records
- $10,000 Cross-document linking — connect families across archives
Browse
Walk the corpus by Audiencia, Localidad, and document type. Finding-aid hierarchy.
Search
Full-text search across titles, places, and metadata. Diacritics are optional.
Research
Tools, conventions, and notes for working with the colonial Spanish American record set.
Donation
Support the Hispanic Heritage Project and read the institutional acknowledgement letters.
Coming soon
Persons
Directory of named persons across the corpus. Faceted by honorific, place, century, and organisation.
Relationships
Graph view of person-to-person edges and source-record traces. Phase 2 in build.
Disambiguation
Reviewer queue for resolving same-name candidates and merging duplicate person records.
Featured book
Updated monthly · Carlos Yturralde curates