Research tools
Research tools
External resources for reading colonial-era Spanish handwriting, decoding archival abbreviations, and locating supporting institutional collections.
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BYU Department of History and the Center for Family History & Genealogy
Link points to the Center for Family History and Genealogy. The Department of History sits at history.byu.edu.
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California Frontier Glossary: Vocabulary Words of the Mission and Presidio Era
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Diccionario de abreviaturas novohispanas (FamilySearch)
The dictionary is hosted by UNAM Instituto de Investigaciones Filologicas. The original WP label listed FamilySearch as the host, which is incorrect.
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Deciphering Secrets – Unlocking the Manuscripts of Medieval Spain
Destination URLs were verified on 2026-05-09 against authoritative institutional sources. The audit log is at .paof/reports/qa/t1_research_tools_url_audit_2026-05-09.md. The original resource names are preserved from data/raw/wp_pages.json under the research-tools slug.