Re: Convento Franciscano Colotlan

["v.h.villarreal" <raices_regias@...>]

"El Archivo Franciscano" is found at the National Library in México. 
Part of it is also found at the Public Library of Guadalajara.

Here's an interesting document (In Spanish):
http://www.ejournal.unam.mx/historia_novo/ehn09/EHN00907.pdf

In "Colecciones Mexicanas" from the "Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México" there's a link to "Archivo Franciscano"
http://www.coleccionesmexicanas.unam.mx/

HIH


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Arturo Ramos" <arturo.ramos2@v...> wrote:
> Prior to the foundation of the parrish of San Luis Obispo in Colotlan 
> c. 1720, the Franciscans ran a convent (monestary) in the city, where 
> marriages and baptisms were performed.  Apparently, there are archives 
> of the convent, as they are quoted in Esteban Valdes Salazar's book 
> Historia de Totatiche, Tomo II... which by the way is invaluable, since 
> it has a transcritption of the entire 1770 census as well as 
> transcriptions of the major land transactions that occured in the area 
> through that period, so that one can plot out the ownership of the land 
> and superimpose the residents on each of those plots.
> 
> Does anybody have any information on these Colotlan Franciscan archives?