Completing Edits to D de M Book & Working on Santa Fe Founding Families
Sent a couple of e-mail messages to friends, colleagues, and people who will be interested in the Domínguez de Mendoza book, the first public announcement that the book is nearing publication after almost 70 years since its inception, and over 80 years since the records were uncovered.
I also finished reviewing the files sent by the copy editor for the forward, preface, introduction (historical narrative), and the translations of the military service records). The next set of files should be arriving this week.
The focus of the book is the military service records for Juan Domínguez de Mendoza spanning a sixty-year time period beginning in the 1640 and including a record of limpieza de sangre (proof of purity of lineage) dated 1625.
The collection of documents that Scholes located consists of fifty-one records dating from 1625 to 1701 and represent the only such records for a single individual that lived in New Mexico in the 17th-century. Scholes referred to Juan Domínguez de Mendoza “as the most prominent citizen-soldier of his century and the only person of his rank and social status for whom we have a significant body of documentation.”
In addition to the fifty-one records, the book contains an additional 27 relevant documents from the 17th century.
I’m also working on a comprehensive historical and genealogical account of the founding families of Santa Fe as a follow up to the shorter pieces published in ‘La Herencia.’ To date, I’ve published on the Martín Serrano and Madrid families, in ‘El Farolito,’ the quarterly journal of the Olibama López Tushar Hispanic Legacy Research Center (www.hispaniclegacy.org). Parts 1 and 2 of the López Holguín were published in 'El Farolito' (2010) and Part 3 is on the way this month.
Since 1995, I’ve extracted numerous references to individuals and families of seventeenth-century New Mexico, mainly from records of the Inquisition that are now part of the Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico. This research has yielded plenty of new information that adds substance to the names known through genealogical research, and in some cases has provided corrections or clarification to genealogical relationships. Specific citations for sources are included in the studies.
Stay tuned for more details.
I also finished reviewing the files sent by the copy editor for the forward, preface, introduction (historical narrative), and the translations of the military service records). The next set of files should be arriving this week.
The focus of the book is the military service records for Juan Domínguez de Mendoza spanning a sixty-year time period beginning in the 1640 and including a record of limpieza de sangre (proof of purity of lineage) dated 1625.
The collection of documents that Scholes located consists of fifty-one records dating from 1625 to 1701 and represent the only such records for a single individual that lived in New Mexico in the 17th-century. Scholes referred to Juan Domínguez de Mendoza “as the most prominent citizen-soldier of his century and the only person of his rank and social status for whom we have a significant body of documentation.”
In addition to the fifty-one records, the book contains an additional 27 relevant documents from the 17th century.
I’m also working on a comprehensive historical and genealogical account of the founding families of Santa Fe as a follow up to the shorter pieces published in ‘La Herencia.’ To date, I’ve published on the Martín Serrano and Madrid families, in ‘El Farolito,’ the quarterly journal of the Olibama López Tushar Hispanic Legacy Research Center (www.hispaniclegacy.org). Parts 1 and 2 of the López Holguín were published in 'El Farolito' (2010) and Part 3 is on the way this month.
Since 1995, I’ve extracted numerous references to individuals and families of seventeenth-century New Mexico, mainly from records of the Inquisition that are now part of the Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico. This research has yielded plenty of new information that adds substance to the names known through genealogical research, and in some cases has provided corrections or clarification to genealogical relationships. Specific citations for sources are included in the studies.
Stay tuned for more details.
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