South and Central America

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Last Updated: 12 Feb 2022

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SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA

• Slave Societies Digital Archive – “The Slave Societies Digital Archive…preserves endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to Africans and African-descended peoples in slave societies. SSDA holdings include more than 700,000 digital images drawn close to 2,000 unique volumes dating from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries that document the lives of an estimated four to six million individuals. This collection contains the most extensive serial records for the history of Africans in the Atlantic World, and also includes valuable information about the indigenous, European, and Asian populations who lived alongside them.”

• British Settlers in Argentina and Uruguay – studies in 19th and 20th century emigration – “An indexed collection of records from Argentina documenting the presence of thousands of British and other English-speaking residents there. Records include baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials from the Anglican, Scots Presbyterian and Methodist churches, transcripts from the National Archives in Buenos Aires and London, Argentine census returns and contemporary publications.”
• CEMLA (Centro de Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos) – “The purpose of the Center for Latin American Migration Studies (CEMLA) is to promote and disseminate academic production related to the study of migration in, to and from Latin America, and the promotion of activities aimed at a greater understanding of the problem of migrants in the whole of society. CEMLA has the first specialized library dedicated exclusively to migrations in Argentina, which today has more than four thousand volumes between books and serial publications.”
• Entrada de Pasajeros a Argentina (Passenger entry to Argentina, XIX century) Database
• Ships Arrived to Argentina: List of ships arrived to the Port of Buenos Aires between 1882 and 1960
• Society for Irish Latin American Studies
  • Irish Passengers to Argentina (1822-1929) Database – “The…list includes 7,159 passengers. It is a published version of the Irish Passengers to Argentina Database, which was compiled from diverse sources.”
  • Irish Settlers in Argentina Database – “This list includes 4,348 Irish settlers in the country.”

• Arquivo Publico Do Estado De São Paulo – “The Public Archive of the State of São Paulo (APESP) makes available in its Digital Repository documents, albums, photographs, periodicals, books, newspapers, magazines, and maps, among others.”
  • Documentos Pessoais (Personal documents) – “Baptism, birth and marriage certificates, booklets, photos, passports, and original tickets, among other documents that trace the history of immigrant families, are located in document sets from the most diverse origins.”
• Projeto imigrantes (The Immigrants Project): Descubra seus Antepassados – “Currently, the database of the Immigrants Project has more than 2.8 million names of immigrants, coming since 1737, through the ports of Rio Grande do Sul to Espirito Santo.”

• Cuban Genealogy Center – “CubaGenWeb is an on-line bi-lingual depository of resources and data dedicated to Cuban Genealogy. It is intended to facilitate the search for your Cuban roots by providing as much information as possible to get you started in your research and help fill in some of the missing blanks.”

• The Genealogy of Mexico