This full updated comprehensive record of the original Spanish families of New Mexico in the 17th and 18th centuries marks the two distinct periods of colonisation.
Fray Angélico Chávez was an American Franciscan priest, historian, researcher, author, poet, and painter. As archivist for the Santa Fe Archdiocese, he undertook the cataloguing and translating of Spanish archives that allowed for a re-evaluation of the history of New Mexico.