Hispanic Heritage Project

Panes holds 244 documents across 141 places, dated 1571 to 1875. The corpus spans censuses (padrones), parish registers, marriage dispensas, notarial protocol books, wills, and Inquisition lineage records, drawn from Nueva España, the Spanish Caribbean, the Iberian peninsula, and the colonial borderlands of what is now the southwestern United States.

Detail from a 16th-century engraved map of Hispania Nova showing the colonial frontier between the Audiencia de Guadalajara and the Audiencia de México. — Detail from a 16th-century engraved map of Hispania Nova, showing the colonial frontier of the Audiencia de Guadalajara and the Audiencia de México. Source: panes.info masthead, scraped 2026-05-09.

The Hispanic Heritage Project is the institute Carlos Yturralde founded to preserve this archive and make it accessible. His wife Nancy has curated the collection since 1998, identifying, digitising, and cataloguing each document across nearly three decades of work.

Panes is the digital surface of that work. The Phase 1 rebuild moves the archive from legacy WordPress hosting to a static-site stack on Cloudflare Pages and R2, with client-side search across the corpus. Phase 2 will introduce a four-layer model (document, record, person, relationship) and cross-document correlation.