If you’re interested in the Archives of the Indies I want to recommend an excellent book:
Discovering the Americas: Archives of the Indies.
It’s a recent over-sized volume and gives a great overview of the archive itself and its contents, including pictures of original documents, sketches and drawings and actual samples of materials sent from New Spain and other territories, including samples of silk and other fabrics that look brand new, rather than five hundred years old.
I regret that I never made it to the Archives of the Indies in Seville.
I was a royal scholar at the Instituto de Cooperacion Iberoamericano in the Moncloa in Madrid during the summer of 1986, and enjoyed a wealth of acculturation. Every Friday our art professor took us to the nearby Prado Museum where we spent an entire morning experiencing hundreds of masterpieces.
We went on field trips to Toledo where we visited El Transito Synagogue and many other places of interest.
I also got to go to El Escorial. And the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid. And a magnificent Egyptian Temple relocated piece by piece from Egypt ahead of the rising waters of the Aswan High Dam.
But not the Archives of the Indies:(
Even when my sister and I visited Seville for Expo ’92, we somehow missed the archives.
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ARchives of the Indies
Hi Joseph,
I am not quite tired of trying to register with the archives, but I would appreciate if someone could let me know what they used for identification in lieu of a passport?
I will try again in the day time sometime.
Thanks,
--
Esther A. Herold
-------------- Original message from Joseph Puentes : --------------
> Let me know if you get totally fed up with trying to register. I'll take
> a crack at registering you in with your email address. It might or might
> not work from my computer I've never tried it before. Let me know. I do
> remember that it was quite tricky.
>
> joseph
>
>
> ayalarobles wrote:
>
> >Joseph, What do you use as an identification do you use when registering? I
> don't have a passport. Also what hours are they available.
> >I tried registering late at night and got a window saying "not available now
> try later".
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Esther
ARchives of the Indies
I used my driver's license number. I imagine that any series of numbers
would work. Passport numbers are not standardized so there is no way of
them verifying that the series of numbers you enter is not a passport
number.
2006/9/12, eaherold@att.net :
>
> Hi Joseph,
>
> I am not quite tired of trying to register with the archives, but I would
> appreciate if someone could let me know what they used for identification in
> lieu of a passport?
>
> I will try again in the day time sometime.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Esther A. Herold
>
>
> -------------- Original message from Joseph Puentes :
> --------------
>
>
> > Let me know if you get totally fed up with trying to register. I'll take
> > a crack at registering you in with your email address. It might or might
> > not work from my computer I've never tried it before. Let me know. I do
> > remember that it was quite tricky.
> >
> > joseph
> >
> >
> > ayalarobles wrote:
> >
> > >Joseph, What do you use as an identification do you use when
> registering? I
> > don't have a passport. Also what hours are they available.
> > >I tried registering late at night and got a window saying "not
> available now
> > try later".
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >Esther
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ARchives of the Indies
Esther,
I think I used my driver's license number. I did not want to enter my Social Security Number.
Emilie Garcia
Port Orchard, WA --
----- Original Message -----
From: eaherold@att.net
To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 2:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] ARchives of the Indies
Hi Joseph,
I am not quite tired of trying to register with the archives, but I would appreciate if someone could let me know what they used for identification in lieu of a passport?
I will try again in the day time sometime.
Thanks,
--
Esther A. Herold
-------------- Original message from Joseph Puentes >: --------------
> Let me know if you get totally fed up with trying to register. I'll take
> a crack at registering you in with your email address. It might or might
> not work from my computer I've never tried it before. Let me know. I do
> remember that it was quite tricky.
>
> joseph
>
>
> ayalarobles wrote:
>
> >Joseph, What do you use as an identification do you use when registering? I
> don't have a passport. Also what hours are they available.
> >I tried registering late at night and got a window saying "not available now
> try later".
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Esther
ARchives of the Indies
Esther,
I used driver's license when I registered. The only problem I had was my phone number. I forgot to use " . " rather than hyphen between the groups of numbers.
David in Albany, CA
-----Original Message-----
>From: eaherold@att.net
>Sent: Sep 12, 2006 5:07 AM
>To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
>Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] ARchives of the Indies
>
>Hi Joseph,
>
>I am not quite tired of trying to register with the archives, but I would appreciate if someone could let me know what they used for identification in lieu of a passport?
>
>I will try again in the day time sometime.
>
>Thanks,
>
>--
>Esther A. Herold
>
>
>-------------- Original message from Joseph Puentes : --------------
>
>
>> Let me know if you get totally fed up with trying to register. I'll take
>> a crack at registering you in with your email address. It might or might
>> not work from my computer I've never tried it before. Let me know. I do
>> remember that it was quite tricky.
>>
>> joseph
>>
>>
>> ayalarobles wrote:
>>
>> >Joseph, What do you use as an identification do you use when registering? I
>> don't have a passport. Also what hours are they available.
>> >I tried registering late at night and got a window saying "not available now
>> try later".
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> >Esther
>> >-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>> >Nuestros Ranchos Research Mailing List
>> >
>> >To post, send email to:
>> >research(at)nuestrosranchos.org
>> >
>> >To change your subscription, log on to:
>> >http://www.nuestrosranchos.org
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>