A massive digitization project has made archival documents, including nearly 300-year-old San Antonio property records, publicly accessible for the first time.
For decades, they sat in a vault at the Bexar County Archives: property deeds, naturalization records, minutes of commissioners court meetings dating to the governing body's inaugural gathering in 1837. The oldest of the documents is from 1736 — a land sale record for settlers from the Canary Islands , the earliest civilian colonists in San Antonio . Now, those and millions of other records are publicly accessible online for the first time.
The database could have broader appeal to the public, especially those looking to trace their family trees and identify ancestors. Before, county staff would have to descend to the vault and rifle through paper records to find an old will or death certificate, said Racquel Montalvo, chief deputy of operations for the Bexar County clerk. Now, they can do a keyword search.
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