Laws of the Indies: Spanish Colonial laws and the records they produced
Judy G. Russell, JD, CG®, CGL®, FUGA
Content
Welcome
1m 47s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 29s
Introduction
6m 40s
History
8m 54s
Laws
8m 38s
Town Planning
3m 30s
Women's Rights
6m 19s
Native Populations
2m 57s
Land Ownership
2m 43s
Where are the records?
16m 4s
Announcements / prizes
4m 23s
Questions / answers
6m 56s
About this webinar
From town planning to native relations, “Las Leyes de Las Indias” (Laws of the Indies) governed Spanish colonies of North America and beyond, and created unique records for research for anyone with ancestral ties to Spanish America.
About the speaker
A genealogist with a law degree, Judy G. Russell is a lecturer, educator and writer who enjoys helping others understand a wide variety of genealogical issues, including the interplay between genealog...
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Comments (30)
Thank you!
Today's topic was very insightful and necessary for researchers interested in documenting Native Americans. Although I knew most of the resources for California, it never occurred to me that court records may be useful for finding clues for Indian women. It was a very good topic.
What a great seminar so interesting and informative but also a great history lesson! As always Judy did a great job of presentation. Thank you so much
I don't have early Spanish territory ancestors, but Judy makes anything so interesting. I love listening to her, and her handouts are always great.
Learn many new resources about Spanish influences in land, court, women's rights, land grants, particularly in town planning. I recognize it when I visited Puerto Rico.
Judy was a delight to listen to and her animated expression of speech made the topic very interesting and the time fly by!!!
It is Judy Russell, what more needs to be said. Even with not Spanish heritage, I still learned from the program.
Judy Russell is so very good at explaining these unique and unusual record sets, where to find them and why we should invest time in digging them out!