General Subdirectorate of State Archives

Its mission is to elaborate, direct and coordinate all those actions aimed at the custody, conservation and dissemination of the documentary heritage. It is responsible for the management of the archives of State ownership and management attached to the Ministry of Culture and Sport; the creation, endowment and promotion of archives of State ownership; the advice regarding the archives of State ownership dependent on other Ministries; the coordination of the Spanish Archives System; the promotion of the conservation of its documentary heritage, its promotion and national and international dissemination; and the planning, development and maintenance of the Central Archive.

Name of the resource	Extreme dates	Number of records	Observations
Ibero-American migratory movements		15/20,000	It is a project coordinated by the General Subdirectorate of the State Archives of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport, developed with the aim of promoting and facilitating access to documentary funds related to Spanish emigration to Ibero-America in contemporary times. · The personal references of emigrants that appear in this Portal are extracted from the following documentary series: · Lists of passengers and emigrants from the Consulate of Spain in Veracruz (General Archives of the Administration, Spain) · Shipping License Files to the Island of Cuba and Puerto Rico (Archivo General de Indias, Spain) · National Registry of Foreigners in Mexico (Archivo General de la Nación de Mexico) · Applications for residence permits in the Dominican Republic (Archivo General de la Nación de la República Dominicana). · Montevideo Police Passenger Books (General Archive of the Nation of Uruguay). · Registro de Nacionalidad del Consulado de España en Rosario (Fundación Complejo Cultural Parque de España, Argentina). With the Spanish War begins a new wave of migration that leads to exile numerous Spaniards fleeing Franco’s repression. Mexico, under the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas, welcomed and rescued between fifteen and twenty thousand Spanish republican exiles from the refugee camps in France, becoming one of the main receiving countries.
PAIRS 2.0	1936 1975	42.031 ("Spanish Civil War") 164.905 ("Francoism")	The Spanish Archives Portal (PARES) is the main platform for the dissemination of Spanish Documentary Historical Heritage, created and managed by the General Subdirectorate of State Archives, of the Ministry of Culture and Sport. It contains descriptive files and digitized images of the documentary funds preserved in the State Archives. However, PARES does not yet contain all the documentation of our files, due to the huge volume of it. The contents of PARES are increasing as the archival works of identification, description and digitization of the documents develop Terms of its Registry of Authorities such as the Spanish Civil War or Franco’s Regime return hundreds of thousands of documents mainly from the Documentary Center of Historical Memory, the General Archive of the Administration and the National Historical Archive.

Name of the resource

Extreme dates

Number of records

Observations

Ibero-American migratory movements

15/20,000

It is a project coordinated by the General Subdirectorate of the State Archives of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport, developed with the aim of promoting and facilitating access to documentary funds related to Spanish emigration to Ibero-America in contemporary times.

· The personal references of emigrants that appear in this Portal are extracted from the following documentary series:

· Lists of passengers and emigrants from the Consulate of Spain in Veracruz (General Archives of the Administration, Spain)

· Shipping License Files to the Island of Cuba and Puerto Rico (Archivo General de Indias, Spain)

· National Registry of Foreigners in Mexico (Archivo General de la Nación de Mexico)

· Applications for residence permits in the Dominican Republic (Archivo General de la Nación de la República Dominicana).

· Montevideo Police Passenger Books (General Archive of the Nation of Uruguay).

· Registro de Nacionalidad del Consulado de España en Rosario (Fundación Complejo Cultural Parque de España, Argentina).

With the Spanish War begins a new wave of migration that leads to exile numerous Spaniards fleeing Franco’s repression. Mexico, under the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas, welcomed and rescued between fifteen and twenty thousand Spanish republican exiles from the refugee camps in France, becoming one of the main receiving countries.

PAIRS 2.0

1936 1975

42.031 ("Spanish Civil War")
164.905 ("Francoism")

The Spanish Archives Portal (PARES) is the main platform for the dissemination of Spanish Documentary Historical Heritage, created and managed by the General Subdirectorate of State Archives, of the Ministry of Culture and Sport.

It contains descriptive files and digitized images of the documentary funds preserved in the State Archives. However, PARES does not yet contain all the documentation of our files, due to the huge volume of it. The contents of PARES are increasing as the archival works of identification, description and digitization of the documents develop

Terms of its Registry of Authorities such as the Spanish Civil War or Franco’s Regime return hundreds of thousands of documents mainly from the Documentary Center of Historical Memory, the General Archive of the Administration and the National Historical Archive.

Information extracted from the Ministry of Culture and Sport. General Subdirectorate of State Archives.

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Date of update: 01/13/2023