Caribbean Studies

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Online Finding Aids for Archives

To find archives on your topic online, try these platforms.

• ArchiveGrid
• UNESCO Digital Library
• WorldCat

Selected Online Archives and Online Guides to Archives

• Censo-Guía de Archivos de España e Iberoamérica, Gobierno de España, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. 
• Hispanic Division Collections, Library of Congress.
• Guide to Archives Collections at the Centro, Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY.
• Guide to Puerto Rican Records in the National Archives New York City, National Archives and Records Administration, 2013.
• Puerto Rico Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress.
• Guía breve de los fondos procesados del Archivo National. Archivo Nacional de Cuba
• Latin American history and culture an archival record. Series I, The Yale University collection of Latin American manuscripts. Yale University. Dept. of Manuscripts and Archives.1701-1936
• Tracing your Caribbean ancestors : a national archives guide. London : Bloomsbury 2012

• The archives of Cuba/Los archivos de Cuba, edited by Louis A. Pérez, Jr. and Rebecca J. Scott. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2003.
• A guide to records in the Winward Islands. Oxford: Blackwell, 1968.
• Fuentes manuscritas para la historia de Iberoamérica : guía de instrumentos de investigación, edited by Sylvia L. Hilton and Ignacio Gonzalez Casasnovas. Madrid : Fundación MAPFRE America, Instituto Histórico Tavera, c1995.
• Guía al Archivo General de Puerto Rico. San Juan, 1964. 
• Guide des sources de l’histoire de l’Amérique latine et des Antilles dans les archives françaises. Paris: Archives nationales, 1984.