Episcopal News Service: Virginia Humanities awards grant to digitize colonial era vestry books. “The project, entitled Laying the Leavy & Keeping the Poor: Lynnhaven & Elizabeth City Parish Records, 1723-1831, will digitize and make public the content of vestry books of two parishes in Virginia’s Tidewater: Lynnhaven Parish (established pre-1643) and Elizabeth City Parish (established […]
El Paso Matters: Historical archives of Juárez cathedral catalogued, digitized. “From indigenous burials and marriage ceremonies to the evangelization of the Franciscans to births and deaths since colonial times, the historical archives of the Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe capture the history and culture of the region. For the first time in its more than 360-year history of […]