There is a new exhibit opening up at SMU’s Meadows Museum, focusing on King Charles IV of Spain and his twenty year reign from 1788 to 1808, which included parts of Texas (when it was called New Spain). The exhibit runs for three months and consists of furniture, paintings, and other artwork from the era.<\/p>\n
Of particular interest to genealogy and history buffs, there is another exhibit at SMU running alongside this one, hosted by the DeGolyer Library at SMU. It’s the Mexico: Colony to Empire, 1519-1867<\/strong> and it’s running from February 11 – May 20, 2010. Part of the exhibition covers the large hacienda land grants that helped shape this part of North America.<\/p>\n Among the items being exhibited at the DeGolyer Library of interest to genealogists: Further Reading:<\/strong> There is a new exhibit opening up at SMU’s Meadows Museum, focusing on King Charles IV of Spain and his twenty year reign from 1788 to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,9,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Manuscript collections concerning viceroyalty documents
\n– Land grants
\n– Nobility applications referencing purity of blood\/lineage
\n– Catholic Church documents
\n– Assorted materials from the Mexican War and Texas Revolution
\n– Early Maps<\/p>\n
\n– Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University<\/a>
\n– DeGolyer Library at SMU<\/a>
\n– Dallas Morning News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"