Includes towns of origin in Galicia for emigrants (pp. 399-410).

Genealogies of 1,208 families of Spanish America and the Philippines.

Broadly interpretive survey that covers the periods from 1492 to 1950. Emphasizes the Cantabrian migration to Cuba and Mexico in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Includes letters written by emigrants to their families in Spain. This view of daily life from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego provides a counterbalance to official accounts. For the genealogist, it provides family details that may exist nowhere else. Includes a general index and personal and place name indexes.

Provides 2,203 names from the Archivo Diocesano de Badajoz. Indexes by more than forty towns of origin, by towns of destination, and by occupation.

A history, spanning five centuries, of the millions of people who crossed the Atlantic from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas. The various periods of emigration differ greatly due to the number and type of emigrants, as well as for the causes and consequences of their emigration.

Collection of research papers presenting specialists' reflections on the close links between migration and personal documents, especially considering the complexity of the topic of historical migrations. Also explores the following questions: What role has historiography given to personal documents? How can we use these kinds of sources in our research? What is the role of other pictorial sources, such as maps, photographs, portraits, etc., in the effort to provide more precision and quality to such research?

Statistical data on emigration from Gijón. Alphabetical list of natives or residents of Gijón who traveled to America between 1700 and 1825. Entries include place of birth, parents' names, spouses' names, and the year of emigration. Details of profession, reason for emigration, and activities in America are included when appropriate. A few documents concerning inheritance and permission to emigrate are published in full.

Contains name index.

Describes Spanish migration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period defined by the crucial transformations of the Progressive Era in the U.S. and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in Spain.

An alphabetical list of emigrants from Spain's northern coastal provinces covering the 16th to the 18th centuries. Entries include place of birth, spouse, brief biography, and place of burial. The first part of the book studies reasons for migration.

Index to 67,397 manuscript bundles containing records of Spaniards and Spanish Americans who served in the military. Information includes advancement throughout military service. When appropriate, notes military orders, coats of arms, and other data.

Study of emigration and its effects on emigrants, as well as on Álava, the southernmost province of the Basque country. Lists of individuals include place of residence in Álava, age, profession, document from which these data are taken and the location of the document, emigrants' destinations in America, and reason for emigration. Many entries include the port of departure, name of the ship, name of the ship's owner, price of passage, accompanying persons, and duration of the voyage. There is a 15-page name index, a 12-page bibliography, and a 9-page list of local archives in Álava giving names of notaries (escribanos, protocolos notariales) consulted by the authors, and the years covered by each notary's records.

Volume 1 analyzes emigration statistically. Volume 2 lists names of 11,349 natives of Castile and León who emigrated between 1517 and 1700 and, when possible, provides names of parents; town of birth; profession; accompanying individuals, with family relationships if known; the name of the expedition with which the emigrant sailed; and noteworthy events in which the emigrant participated. Notes complete citations for the sources of the information. General index and an index by town and province of origin. Expeditions listed are those of Montejo, Diego de Tovilla, Nuño de Guzmán, Pedro de Heredia, Rodrigo Durán, Simón de Alcazaba, la Armada de los alemanes, Rodrigo de Contreras, Pizarro y Almagro, Juan del Junco, Felipe Gutiérrez, Mendoza, Martín de Lezama, Hernando de Soto, Rodrigo de Abornoz, Pedro de Alvarado, Bartolomé de Zárate, Pascual de Andagoya, Cabeza de Vaca, el maestro de Roa, Fray Tomás de San Martín, Vasco de Quiroga, Alderete marqués del Cañate, Conde de Nieva, Lucás Vásquez de Ayllón, Lope García de Castro, Vásquez de Coronado, Gastón de Peralta, el virrey Enríquez, Francisco de Toledo, Pedro Hernández de Serpa, Alvaro de Mendaña, Gonzalo Ronquillo, Lorenzo Suárez de Mendoza, Toribio de Mogrovejo, Luis de Carvajal, el virrey Velasco.

Based on the thesis that most Spanish immigrants to Chile were Basques, and that their culture absorbed that of the Castilians, Extremadurans, and Andalusians in Chile, this work serves as a reference for history, language, and etymology of surnames for Basques everywhere. The historical and geographical descriptions of Guipúzcoa, Vizcaya, Alava, Navarra, Benabarre, Laburdi, Zuberoa, the mountainous regions of Burgos and Santander, and the description of Basque archaeology up to 1930 are told by describing each village in detail. There follows a sketchy 24-page outline of Basque grammar and vocabulary and a 364-page dictionary of etymologies of Basque surnames that gives a history of each family and describes its coat of arms when appropriate.

Biographies of the 296 men and 65 women who emigrated to America from the city of Llerena, Extremadura, during the 16th century. Includes a study of the political and economic reasons for leaving, photographs of the city, and diagrams of the churches. Entries vary from three lines to several pages and give all information available on emigrants' families, professions, activities, and church of baptism. Some include letters from the emigrants, printed or reproduced in the original handwriting. Full citation of sources. Fifteen documents relating to emigration are printed in full and contain additional names of persons not from Llerena. Includes bibliography and personal and place name indexes.

Names, dates, and biographies of Extremeños who participated in the following actions and/or served with the following officers: Christopher Columbus, Don Nicolás de Ovando, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Hernán Cortés, the conquest of Yucatán under Francisco Pizarro, crossing of the Andes under Gonzalo Pizarro, exploration of the Amazon under Francisco de Orellana, civil wars in Peru, supporters of Almagro, and the exploration of Florida under Hernando de Soto. Also includes names of: Extremeños who received encomiendas, miscellaneous conquistadores, clergy and the religious, administrators, writers, artisans, and industrialists. Contains a general index, a personal name index, and a place name index.

History of Galicians in America from the beginning of Spanish exploration. Biographical and genealogical information on many individuals, but contains no name index. Includes 18-page bibliography and many footnotes.

Galicians who achieved high office in America in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Includes a 27-page name index and 18-page bibliography

Highlights of achievements by Galicians in the Antilles, Río de la Plata, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela, and Colombia. Includes an 8-page name index and 18-page bibliography.

Note: this bibliographical record is for two non-consecutive volumes: Vol. 9 and vol. 13.
Vol. 9 lists names of emigrants for the years 1534-1690. These sparse entries give name, place of birth, destination, marital status, year of emigration, and persons accompanying the emigrant. The rest of the volume reproduces documents relating to the emigrants and to laws on emigration. More names appear in these papers. The documents are summarized in an index.
Vol. 13 continues the entries and reproduces laws that affect lay and religious emigrants and foreigners. These documents contain many additional names and are summarized in the index. There are 16 black and white illustrations, along with comments.

Useful to historians, linguists, and genealogists. Statistical tables show precise number of immigrants from each European region and the percentage from each region that settled in each colony of North and South America. Tables list numbers of emigrants from even minor towns. This is almost equivalent to a road map for those who know where an ancestor lived in Europe but not where he or she settled in America.