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When the Notary’s Hand Recorded Her Life: Reading Spanish Colonial Notarial Acts as Biographical Sources

June 25, 2026 by The Kinstructure Company

The Spanish colonial notarial archive in New Orleans is one of the most underused biographical record sets in Louisiana genealogy. A four-step method for reading the acts as biographical sources, with free public archive access included.

Filed Under: Genealogy Gems, Genealogy Research, Louisiana Heritage, Research Methodology Tagged With: archival research, biographical research, colonial New Orleans, Francisca Montreuil, free archives, free women of color, New Orleans genealogy, notarial records, Pedro Pedesclaux, primary sources, research methodology, Spanish colonial Louisiana

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