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Yucatan on Microfilm: Existing Collections and Finding Aids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

David Block
David Block*
Affiliation:
Cornell University
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Over the past two decades, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the University of Alabama, the University of Texas at Arlington, and the Universidad de Yucatán have produced microfilm copies of primary source materials in the Yucatán. While their films only begin to tap the rich documentary resources of the peninsula, the combined holdings put a large corpus of materials for reconstructing the Yucatecan past within the reach of scholars in the United States. This brief essay will describe the four microfilm collections as they existed in the fall of 1984 as well as the finding aids that have been developed to assist researchers in accessing them.

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , 1986 , pp. 152 - 159
Copyright
Copyright © 1986 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

*

I would like to thank Tom Holloway of the Department of History at Cornell. His critique of an earlier version of this essay resulted in its submission to LARR.

References

Bibliography of Finding Aids

ALABAMA, UNIVERSITY OF, LIBRARIES 1972 A Catalog of the Yucatán Collection on Microfilm in the University of Alabama Libraries. Compiled by Marie Ballew Bingham. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1972.Google Scholar
Arrigunaga Coello, Maritza. 1983 Catálogo de las fotocopias de los documentos y periódicos yucatecos en la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Texas en Arlington. Arlington: University of Texas at Arlington Press, 1983.Google Scholar
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. 1978 Preliminary Survey of the Mexican Collection. Finding Aids to the Microfilmed Manuscript Collection for the Genealogical Society of Utah, no. 1. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.Google Scholar
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. 1978 Supplement to the Preliminary Survey of the Mexican Collection. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1978.Google Scholar
Robinson, David James. 1980 Research Inventory of the Mexican Collection of Colonial Parish Registers. Finding Aids to the Microfilmed Manuscript Collection of the Genealogical Society of Utah, no. 6. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1980.Google Scholar