GENUSpedia has completed a major database expansion, integrating more than 1,000,000 digitized manuscript pages into the primary-source repository and AI search index.

This update incorporates comprehensive collections from the Real Audiencia y Chancillería de Valladolid, the Real Chancillería de Granada, the Consejo Real de Navarra, and early colonial Notarial Protocols of Mexico City.

Researchers, genealogists, and institutional members can now query, cross-reference, and extract verbatim citations across the following newly cataloged manuscript series:

I. Crown of Castile: Royal Chancellery of Valladolid (Sala de Hijosdalgo)

The Sala de Hijosdalgo of the Real Chancillería de Valladolid exercised exclusive judicial jurisdiction over nobility status, hidalguía privileges, tax exemptions (alcabalas), and lineage litigation for the northern territories of the Crown of Castile.

• Reign of King Charles I (1516–1556) / Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
  • Pleitos de Hidalguía (1501–1516): Pre-Imperial court filings and transitional nobility trials during the regency of Queen Joanna I (“La Loca”) and Cardinal Cisneros.
  • Pleitos de Hidalguía (Granada Jurisdiction): Early 16th-century claims processed through Valladolid prior to structural territorial reassignments.
  • Pleitos de Hidalguía (1543–1555): Mid-16th-century ancestral proofs, coat of arms claims (escudos de armas), and majorat (mayorazgo) declarations under the Chancery of Valladolid.
• Reign of King Philip II (1556–1598)
  • Pleitos de Hidalguía (1556–1573): Comprehensive legal proceedings from the early Golden Age, detailing blood purity records (limpieza de sangre), military service exemptions, and ancestral seat origins (casas solares).
• Reign of King Philip III (1598–1621)
  • Pleitos de Hidalguía (A–Z Alphabetical Series): Complete run of early 17th-century nobility lawsuits, covering estate inheritances and municipal council seating rights (cabildos).
• Reign of King Philip IV (1621–1665)
  • Pleitos de Hidalguía: High-Baroque lawsuits regarding nobility validation, majorat entails, and aristocratic tax-exempt status.
• Reign of King Charles II (1665–1700)
  • Pleitos de Hidalguía (17th Century): Late-Habsburg court filings containing detailed genealogical trees, baptismal and matrimonial depositions, and noble estate inheritance records.

II. Kingdom of Navarre: Royal Council of Navarre (Consejo Real)

• Procesos de Hidalguía (16th Century): Complete collection of nobility and peerage lawsuits heard by the Consejo Real de Navarra. Documents include armería disputes, palatial rights (palacios cabos de armería), seat calls in the Cortes Generales (Military Estate), and tax immunity petitions under Navarrese customary law (fueros).

III. New Spain: Notarial Archives of Mexico City

Primary colonial records integrating early transatlantic migrations, notary protocols (protocolos notariales), estate inventories, and commercial transactions from early Viceroyalty history.

• 16th-Century Notarial Protocols (Siglo XVI): Early colonial legal acts, powers of attorney (poderes), dowry agreements (cartas de dote), land grants, and estate settlements executed by the first generations of Spanish settlers and conquistadors in Mexico City.
• 17th-Century Notarial Protocols (Siglo XVII): High-colonial notarized contracts, founding majorat deeds (fundaciones de mayorazgos), institutional trust funds (capellanías), and commercial partnership agreements throughout New Spain.

Querying the New Datasets in GENUSpedia

All 1,000,000+ newly ingested pages have been cataloged and indexed. Members can query these collections immediately via:

1. Hybrid Keyword & Paleographical Search: Filter by surname, year, notary, or geographic jurisdiction.
2. Ichiban AI Agent: Request direct summary abstracts, genealogical extraction, and verbatim citation generation across the entire Sala de Hijosdalgo and Protocolos series.