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AER Records at Ancestry.com


 

Joseph,

Below is a copy of what I found today on one of my ancestors in Ancestry.com.  The original entry in Ancestry.com that I printed out back in August 2004 said "Extracted from documents in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, copies of which are among the holdings of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City".  Now I notice that this entry has that sentence truncated after "copies of".  I wonder why they did that?  Did they not want the public to know that the FHC has those records, or did the FHC make them eliminate that part?  They only give some book as a resource. 
 
That time that I tried to navigate the AER online, I got as far as getting a password and I pulled up any old record, and it was amazing!  The actual photo of the document from the 1500s appeared on the screen and it had all kinds of info, but the destination was also "Nuevo Espana" (like in the one below) not any particular state in Mexico because there probably weren't any states yet. When I tried to find my particular surnames, I had no luck in navigating to that point (too mensa).  Only Ancestry.com gets me to my surnames, but alas, they don't have the actual scans of the AER documents.
 
Emilie Garcia
Port Orchard, WA --

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Recordinfo
about Sebastian De Olague

Name: Sebastian De Olague
Year: 1568
Place: New Spain
Source Publication Code: 3456.9
Primary Immigrant: Olague, Sebastian De
Annotation: Date of application for emigration with intended destination. Continuation of nos. 8870-8872, indexed in PILI 1985 and 1989. For further volumes, see nos. 1623.1-1623.2 above. Extracted from documents in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, copies of
Source Bibliography: IRUELA, LUIS ROMERA, and Ma. del CARMEN GALBIS DIEZ. Catalogo de Pasajeros a Indias Durante los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII. (Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla.) Seville, Spain: Ministerio de Cultura. Vol. 5, book 1 (1567-1574). 1980, pp. 1-543.
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