During the first days of the first state of alarm in Spain in March, I published a Tweed thread about Spanish Catholic Church with records online to work and do genealogy from home in times of coronavirus.
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A request to the king of Spain to change a surname in 1808
December 1808. Convulsive times. Spain had risen up in arms against the French enemy. And Manuel Godoy, Carlos IV’s favorite, was to blame for that war. On this day, 210 years ago, a canarian, also surnamed Godoy, ashamed, asked Fernando VII “to use only the surname of Verde”.
Archives I have consulted
Several weeks ago, I shared a news on Facebook about the Guide of the Spanish Archives that said there were more than 35.000 archives here in Spain. I can not stop thinking about it… so I have begun to make a list of the archives that I have consulted throughout years of historical and genealogical research. I…