This should be of special interest to researchers who are looking for info of the southwest, Spanish territories of New Spain. I am passing it along FYI. Hope it helps someone.. glory bee Richhart > DRSW Master Index on web > > Documentary Relations of the Southwest (DRSW) in the Arizona State > Museum at the University of Arizona has now placed its Master > Bibliography and Index online. > > The Master Index is a finding aid for researchers using Spanish > colonial documents concerning northern New Spain from the 1500s until > the > 1820s. It contains more than 17,000 records about what is now the > southwestern > United States and northern Mexico. In all, the Master Index summarizes > an > estimated 500,000 pages of colonial documents. > Each record contains detailed information about a document or a > group of related documents in archives around the world. The documents > summarized come from a total of thirty-one archives in Europe and the > Americas. > Copies of most of these documents are available on microfilm in DRSW or > elsewhere in Tucson. > > A link to the new, online searching is available from DRSW's > webpage: > http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/drsw > Just enter a search term, such as, "Sinaloa", and you will see a > list of all the records that contain that term (in this case, there will > be > 762 matches). Click on a title, and your screen will display the full > record. > You can select records to save, print, or email. > We would appreciate your feedback about this new service - > especially since we are still writing the "help" page. Also, please do > not > hesitate to ask for help. > > In the future we plan to make at least four more databases > searchable simultaneously with the Master Index: 1) the Biofile, a > collection of > 19,000 biographical descriptions; Biodex and Biodex2, compilations of > index > entries from secondary sources; and the SMRC Books & Articles, an > annotated > bibliography with about 14,000 items. > We would like to thank the University of Arizona Libraries for > donating staff time and expertise in putting these databases online. In > particular, Metadata Librarian Jeremy Frumkin has overseen this process. > > Happy hunting! > Tracy > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Tracy Duvall, Ph.D. > Documentary Relations of the Southwest > Arizona State Museum > University of Arizona > Tucson, AZ 85721 > duvallt@u.arizona.edu > tel: (520)621-6280 > fax: (520)621-2976 > > --