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Monday, 3 November 2008
White Chocolate & Cranberry Muffins
18 comments:
- natalia said...
Ollie is really a beauty ! The muffins sound very good if I can find some cranberries I'll try them !
- 3 November 2008 at 15:32
- Arundathi said...
oh sorry to hear you're unwell. i hope you feel better soon!
- 3 November 2008 at 15:40
- Nic said...
Hope you are all better soon, my family have got it too, I have so far escaped.
White chocolate and cranberry go really well together and your muffins are lovely!
- 3 November 2008 at 15:52
- Finla said...
ollie has grown...
Good to hear that you are feeling much better now.
Muffins look great
- 3 November 2008 at 15:57
- Deborah said...
I hope you are feeling better! When I am sick, I can't even look at food, so I don't blame you for taking a break. These muffins look wonderful, though!
- 3 November 2008 at 16:09
- Maggie said...
Wonderful muffins, I love the flavour combo.
Ollie is very cute!
Pleased that you are feeling better, the lurgy is in this house too!!!
- 3 November 2008 at 17:58
- Nickki said...
Ollie is so gorgeous! Sorry to hear you've been unwell. I've had a bad cold and cough this week as well so I haven't been baking very much. I even missed sweet & simple bakes this month, which was disappointing but there's always next time :)
Those muffins look gorgeous, I love white choc & cranberry so I'll be trying these :)
- 3 November 2008 at 18:28
- Reeni said...
I love cranberries and white chocolate together! These look great. Glad your feeling better and getting back in the kitchen. I missed your goodies too. Ollie is such a little cutie!
- 3 November 2008 at 18:57
Sorry to hear that you've been sick. I'm starting the same sort of cold/flu thing and feeling decidedly miserable so you have my sympathies!
The muffins do look wonderful, and aren't cranberries a superfood? Full of amazing, health-giving properties? Coupled with the naturally cheering effects of chocolate and you practically have medicine there!
- 3 November 2008 at 19:19
- Beth Sachs (Jam & Clotted Cream) said...
Glad you're feeling better - these look delish
- 3 November 2008 at 20:58
- Maria said...
Glad that you are back. We have missed you! The muffins look awesome!! The kitty is cute too:)
- 3 November 2008 at 21:49
- Oh my! Apple pie! said...
Glad to hear your feeling better Maria, it's just that time of year isn't it.
White choc and cranberry are a match made in heaven, I always have cranberry and sour cream muffins over the Christmas period, I'll add chocolate this year.
- 3 November 2008 at 22:25
- Tina Butler said...
Glad you are feeling better, those muffins look so so good. I love cranberries. You kitty is just the cutest look at the expression.
- 3 November 2008 at 22:48
- AK Mom said...
These muffins look absolutely yummy!
I'll have to make a batch for my family.
I hope you are feeling better. When you feel up to it, please stop by my blog for a special surprise. (http://akbaking.blogspot.com)
- 4 November 2008 at 02:09
- Maria♥ said...
Thanks so much for the lovely comments and all your well wishes. I am feeling much better now and raring to go in the kitchen!
AK Mom, thanks so much for the lovely award ;o)
- 4 November 2008 at 12:13
- Anne said...
aw Ollie is getting big now and still as gorgeous!
- 6 November 2008 at 14:09
- Cookie said...
Glad that you are getting better now.
Not just your boys, I like to see more of your bake too!
Take care!
- 6 November 2008 at 16:55
- Bea Roque said...
Espero que te hays recuperado totalmente de tu gripe....hay que tener mucho cuidado ( especialmente este año) ya que hay una cepa muy virulenta ....así que, a mejorarse!!!! Tus muffins tienen un pinta deliciosa, pero prefiero comerme a Ollie, que está riquísimo, jijiji!!! Un beso. B
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Overclocking Extravaganza: GTX 275's Complex Characteristicsby Derek Wilson on June 4, 2009 5:35 AM EST
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After our in depth look at overclocking with AMD's Radeon HD 4890, many of our readers wanted to see the same thing done with NVIDIA's GTX 275. We had planned on looking at both parts from the beginning, but we knew each review would take a bit of time and effort to design and put together. Our goal has been to try and design tests that would best show the particular overclocking characteristics of the different hardware, and shoehorning all that into one review would be difficult. Different approaches are needed to evaluate overclocking with AMD and NVIDIA hardware.
For our AMD tests, we only needed to worry about memory and core clock speed. This gave us some freedom to look at clock scaling in order to better understand the hardware. On the other hand, NVIDIA divides their GPU up a bit more and has another, higher speed, clock domain for shader hardware. Throwing another variable in there has a multiplicative impact on our testing, and we had a hard time deciding what tests really mattered. If we had simply used the same approach we did with the 4890 article, we would have ended up with way too much data to easily present or meaningfully analyze.
We've kept a few key test points, as we will look at each clock at the highest speed we could achieve on its own (all other clocks set at stock speeds). We will also look at performance with all clocks set to the maximum we could hit. Beyond this, rather than looking at how performance scales over clock speed with memory and shader at their maximum and looking at how performance scales over shader speed with memory and core at their maximum, we decided it would be cleaner to look at just one more configuration. For this test, we chose core and shader speed at maximum with memory at stock.
As with the previous look at overclocking, we present our analysis based on percent increases in performance but provide the raw data as well. It's all pretty straight forward with the raw data, and we do include our highly overclocked 4890 as well as the 900MHz core clocked 4890 that can be picked up pre-overclocked from the manufacturer. For the bulk of the article, we will just be considering the impact of overclocking on the GTX 275, but our conclusion will compare AMD and NVIDIA on overclocking in this segment.
The clock speeds we were able to pull out of our GTX 275 were not to shabby as far as overclocks go. Our core clock speed could have been better, but otherwise we did pretty well. Here is what we will be looking at today:
Core: 702MHz (vs. 633MHz stock)
Memory: 1296MHz (vs. 1134MHz stock)
Shader: 1656MHz (vs. 1404MHz stock)
These are 10.9, 14.3, and 17.9 percent increases respectively. First up, we'll look at the impact of overclocking the memory, then we'll move on to core and shader. After that it's on to fully overclocked and our core/shader combined overclock.
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serrias - Monday, June 8, 2009 - linkSorry if its been posted, But the math is wrong :S...
Thats like saying.. you have 3 people (each one represents either memory,core or shader) they are all making wallets, and can each do 10 in an hour.
That means 3 people x 10 wallets per hour = 30 wallets a hour total.
Then you tell them each to work 10% faster...... Therefore..
Wallet maker one does 11 wallets a hour (1.1x10=11)
Wallet maker two also does 11 wallets a hour (1.1x10=11)
And Wallet maker Three also does 11 wallets a hour (1.1x10=11).
This equates to 33 wallets an hour (for a 10% increase from each wallet maker)
This is still overall just a 10% increase in performance.
Now onto the artical, It is impossible to get a performance increase above the amount overclocked... Right?.... The highest overclock here was about 17% on the shader if i remember right
(So by my math even if the core and memory were also 17% overclocks it would still just be 17% faster overall... From my example above)
.. This all makes it definatly impossible to get a 30%+ increase.
Sorry, But this artical is screwed up. Reply
Tigashark - Monday, June 8, 2009 - linkSerias you are making the assumption that the core , shader and mem are all performing the same job "Making wallets" and therefore the performance improvement should increase in a linnear fashion
Using your wallet maker example , changing the layout of their workspace by "10%" might lead to a 20% increase in efficiency and corresponding 20% increase in wallets per hour
the shader and core clocks obviously have a multiplicive relationship , not an additive one and the core and shader clocks are obviously helping eachother do their job more efficiently in some manner .
Im sure an Nvidia engineer would be able to answer the "why" of this ;)
Science is based on theory -> experiment -> observation ->conclusion (and maybe another round of experiments if the results dont fit your theory)
In this case your trying to say "but my theory must be right so the observed results are wrong"
Thats like saying "the world is flat so something else must be happening when people circumnavigate the earth , cos it couldnt possibly be that its not flat"
Bottom line you can throw as much theory at this as you like , the
Observed results speak for themselves .
Great article btw :)
Tigashark - Monday, June 8, 2009 - linkMeant to say
Science is based on theory -> experiment -> observation ->conclusion and if need be - > REVISION
(if the results dont fit the theory , you revise the theory untill it explains the results , THEN retest)
serrias - Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - linkYou are correct in how the core, shader and memory are seperate, and how those seperate things are unlinked and affect the framerates in very differnt proportions, I did originally think about this... But I just to make it more understandable... I used a simplified example to show it. It still is incorrect though.
The basic principal is the same, You cannot achieve a larger performance increase the the percentage you originally increased from.
The wallet making example was suitable for simple understanding , Using that example you are correct, If you did for increase workspace by 10% you may get a 20% increase in wallets per hour, the only case where this could happen is where the workspace is the limiting factor, and the increase is because perviously he could only fit say 90% of the needed materials on the desk, whereas now he can fit 100% and work at a much faster rate (seeing as he dosnt need to go back and get more materials half way through.)
But, This does not apply to a GPU efficiency because its just a differnt enviroment.
Im sorry but no matter what, It is definatly impossible to overclock three components by 17% 10% and 10% (or whatever the review said) and achieve a theoretical performance improvement of 50%, with a actual of up to 32%... Perhaps by freak occourance may happen to around 19-20%, But that would be driver issues and inperfections in architecture, No way would 32% be possible!!! Reply
serrias - Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - linkOh yeah, finally,
Its obviously ridiculous if the clocks have a multiplying increase
(xxx*xxx*xxx = total percentage is not right.)
Let me put this into simpler terms so you can understand....
That is the same as using your analogy...
if you decrease the clocks by 50% on each one you will come out with
So thats like saying if you run 50% of the speed youll get 12.5% of the performance
Or.. even more stupid...
If you run 20% of the original core speed you get 0.8% of the original performance
Or the other way round... a 50% clock increase on all components (actually possible on some GPU's) would be
1.5*1.5*1.5 = 3.375
So a 50% increase in clocks means a thoretical increase of 337.5% ..... :S
So can you see now how it is clear that you cannot multiply the percentage increase to determin theoretical MAXIMUM performance... (Maximum reffering to the pervious running at 20% of clock speeds = 0.8% MAXIMUM performance.... (Have to follow same rules for all equations) Reply
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helldrell666 - Saturday, June 6, 2009 - linkExtremely useful Data Mr. Derek.I just love your articles.Your one of the great guys at anandtech who keep anandtech unique in every single way.
KhadgarTWN - Friday, June 5, 2009 - linkA great review, but the problem is still there,
4890 perform far worse in reality than these canned benchmark
My 4890 has no change on par with GTX 275 at 1920x1200 on most of game.... I have them both on E8500 Reply
SiliconDoc - Saturday, June 6, 2009 - linkIf you notice the games also have some customized settings and the 4890 they used was a special for their eyes only manufacturer direct channel non retail version ! LOL
Yes of course, the red rooster BS here is so thick it's PATHETIC.
"We absolutely must caution our readers once again that these are not off-the-shelf retail parts. These are parts sent directly to us from manufacturers and could very likely have a higher overclocking potential than retail parts."
Yes, caution us way down into page 3 of the 4890 extravaganza review - but just COPY AND PASTE those special card numbers here and NEVER MENTION IT - and put a sappy 703 core on the GTX275 and call it "extravaganza!"
Yes, your 275 whomps the 4890 in real life - that's why they have to go through maxxing it out for 4890 here to get what they got - a specially OC'able card from manufacturer - specialized custom game settings and ati favorable games in the majority - a great oc on ati not even achievable retail, and a crappy oc on nvidia that RETAIL BEATS ! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...
Yeah, just really grewat and valuable data as hell666 says the next page... because he doesn't have a clue, he's bleeding out red rooster all over. Reply


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Giacomo Puccini's Turandot was the composer's final opera - he died in 1924 before it could be completed. The opera eventually had its premiere in 1926, one year and five months after Puccini's death, completed by Franco Alfano. Halfway through the third act the orchestra rested and conductor Arturo Toscanini turned to the audience announcing, 'Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died', before the performance segued into Alfano's ending.
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@RoyalOperaHouse @_paullay @ammonite: "Cosi" The lovers stay with their new partners, seize Alfonso and throw him into the ornamental lake. — Historylecturer (@Historylecturer) August 27, 2013
@RoyalOperaHouse an addition to the repertory, Rigoletto 2: A Father's Revenge. A Sweeney Todd -esque vendetta story. — Chris Curcuruto (@ChrisCurcuruto) August 27, 2013
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Amazing tech! frames wont be long coming i think....
I'm watching a machine print some dropouts. It's an expensive machine; if you want one for your shed you'll need to front about half a million pounds. It's printing them in super-hard 6Al/4V titanium alloy, and the design is such that they couldn't be produced any other way. They're optimised for the process, hollow, finite-element-analysed on the computer to be stronger and lighter than anything you could produce on a CNC machine.
Once they're finished they'll be off with Nick Larsen of Charge Bikes to Taipei, where they'll be welded into a cyclocross frame, the prototype for a run of 50 bikes that will be the first ever to use this technology. This is cutting edge stuff, and the resulting frames will be pricey, but the technology is only going to get cheaper. Is this the future of bike part production?
The machine in question is in an unremarkable brick building on the EADS Airbus site at Filton, one of a vast number of unremarkable brick buildings with fantastical things inside. Over the road is the wind tunnel; up the hill a composites lab where they're struggling with the problems of building and curing 35-metre wing structures to a tolerance of 1mm for the next generation of mass transit aircraft. Building 10K has a roller door and a couple of ice-encrusted Argon cylinders in a cage outside. Step inside and you're face to face with a process that may well revolutionise metal components. This is the Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing.
Printing titanium bicycle parts. A Charge Bikes collaboration with European Aeronautic Defence and Space from Charge Bikes on Vimeo.
We're in the company of Specialist ALM Engineer Andy Hawkins, who we've featured on road.cc before. Remember the printed plastic bike? The guys at EADS made that bike to showcase the possibilities of layer manufacturing processes. That was using a nylon powder, but since then they've mostly turned their attention to what can be achieved with metal, and specifically titanium.
Let's think about metal bikes, and how they're made. Historically there's a few processes that are used to create components. Tubes and spokes are drawn, pulled through dies to create their shape and manage their material properties, and some structures such as rims are extruded, pushed through a die rather than pulled. Most other components are forged, formed into shape using dies and huge pressures. More recently CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machines have been increasingly employed, milling components from a billet of material or from pre-forged parts. It's these latter two processes that the new technology, Direct Metal Laser Sintering, or DMLS, may well challenge in the future.
Both forging and CNC have their limitations and drawbacks. For a start, there's a limit to the kind of shapes that can be achieved with either process. CNC has a very high waste rate too; often 70% or more of the material ends up in the scrap bin. Forging has very high tooling costs: change the design of a part and you need new dies and a lot of downtime. DMLS addresses all these issues. It has the potential to produce incredibly complex parts with almost no wastage and no tooling costs other than the cost of the machine.
A DMLS machine works from a CAD representation of the finished part, and splits it into layers a few microns thick. The working area of the machine is a bed plate covered with a very fine metal powder - titanium in this case but the process can be made to work with aluminium, steel, gold, platinum, pretty much anything. A laser selectively melts the powder according to the design, then the bed moves down and a new level of powder is drawn over the top. Then the next layer is printed, melting into the layer below, and the process continues. So the machine effectively prints the part one slice at a time. When the build is finished the titanium powder gets recycled back into the machine for the next run.
This approach means that parts can be incredibly complex. It's possible to create hollow structures and remove unneccessary material from a part in a way that isn't an option with traditional methods, meaning that parts can be lighter, or stronger for the same weight. The finished part needs no additional treatment except a bit of oven time, and the resulting metal is isotropic (uniform material properties in all planes) with the same material strength as a solid billet. One of Andy's favourite demonstration pieces is a pen body that consists of a hollow tube with embossed writing surrounded by a lattice work outer layer. "It would be impossible to make it any other way," he tells us.
The process is especially suitable for titanium parts for a number or reasons. For a start, titanium is expensive, so anything that reduces wastage is a bonus. It's also poor at conducting heat, which means that the laser is able to very effectively and accurately melt the layers. Aluminium, which melts at a much lower temperature, requires twice the laser power because it's such an efficient conductor. Titanium, especially as a 6Al/4V alloy (6% aluminium and 4% vanadium) is extremely hard, and that makes it costly and time-consuming to machine. The additive layer process is so well suited to making small and complex titanium parts that it's already cost effective for some applications. "We recently ran a batch of parts for an aerospace project," Andy tells us. "By nesting them together on the plate we managed to produce 50 at once, all slightly different. In the end we couldn't have produced them as cheaply or as quickly any other way."
We're here to see not springs, but dropouts. Nick from Charge has invited us to see the sample production of a pair of dropouts for their new disc-equipped cyclocross bike. Peering into the machine, all you can see is a couple of squares of metal, surrounded by the powder; on each layer there's a burst of sparks as the laser etches the design before the bed drops infinitesimally (each layer is 0.03mm thick) and another layer of powder is dragged over the top before the laser fires again. As you can imagine, this isn't a quick process. When we arrived mid-morning the DMLS machine was most of the way through its run; it had finished the drive side dropouts and was busy printing the last bits of the disc tab on the non-drive dropout, but it wasn't until after lunch that we were able to open the oven door and see if they'd baked okay.
Getting the parts from the machine is a bit like an archaeological dig, carefully removing the loose powder around to reveal what's been made. Andy's suited and masked for this part of the process. Titanium powder isn't the greatest thing to be inhaling, and everyone's a touch nervous until we can see that the run has been a success. The dropouts are held in place by semi-solid support structures, made by printing on every other layer. The dropouts are transferred to an oven, where they get a few hours of heat to relieve internal stresses in the parts cause by the manufacturing process. Once the oven time is complete it's just a case of breaking the supports away and you have what's basically the finished part. The finish out of the machine is a bit sandpaper-like, so the final step is to tumble the parts in a polishing machine that's full of ceramic balls that gently smooth the surfaces and you end up with a sort of semi-polished finish. Once that's done, the titanium is so resistant to corrosion that nothing else is really needed; it's ready to go in the frame.
The total run time for producing the dropouts is about 18 hours; add to that the overnight cooking and a day of tumbling in the finishing machine to get everything nice and shiny, and you can see one of the current issues with making bike bits this way. It's not quick. And 'not quick' equals 'costly'. Nick wouldn't say exactly how much producing the dropouts this way would add to the frame, although he assured us that the finished article would be "reassuringly expensive". The reality at the moment is that there's only a few applications where this technology can produce cost-effective results. But that's not to say that it'll stay that way. Producing a batch of 50 dropouts would take 40 hours, reducing the per-unit time considerably. And that's with the current technology which, though impressive, is still very much in its infancy.
Rapid prototyping machines, that produce parts from plastics, used to cost as much as a DMLS machine does now not so may years back. Skip to the present and you can pick one up, albeit a basic one, for less than a grand; Cannondale, we're told, have one in the office for knocking out sample designs that you can hold in your hand. A poster on the door of the DMLS lab proudly trumpets EADS' innovation; the picture accompanying the blurb is of an entire plane being printed. Fantastical? Of course. But the machines will get bigger, faster and cheaper because that's what happens. How long until it's feasible to produce a whole frame using this process? The working area only needs to be about three times as big. Cue the ability to prototype a metal frame with similar material qualities as one produced by another method, hydroforming for example, without the massive cost of tooling up. Or the ability to take a set of custom rider measurements and print a frame to fit. You could have your name etched in the top tube too.
From there it would only be a case of mechanising the processes of removing, heat treating and finishing the parts' all of which is currently laboriously done by hand, and you have a realistic production line for knocking out layer-manufactured parts and the costs go tumbling. We were printing four dropouts; if you were printing 1,000 at a time and the heat treatment and finishing were automated, that might be enough to make it a viable option. One thing's for certain: this technology will improve and expand. This won't be the last time you hear about it.
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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If you read the article they've actually been using the process for aerospace engineering so I guess that got in there first...
Either way, the more the process is used and expands the cheaper it'll get until the point where you can press an entire bicycle in one go to any size specification you like. Custom frame sizes, custom geometry, custom seat/chain stays, custom engravings, the lot, in time it'll all be available at an increasingly affordable price.
In fact, it might not take long before you can design your own frame (from a preselection of parts/designs) and get it made to size.
Isn't there one called a RepRap that you buy as a kit?
Can that print in Ti?
Nope. Only in plastic and very low resolution.
I've been using machines like this at work for ten years now, it's a lot of fun designing parts and getting them in your hand same or next day.
Having done some work with RP technology at Uni (14years ago - Ouch) for my Engineering dissertation, it's really good to see the tech moving on. At that point state of the art, was Stereolithography, using laser cured Epoxy Resins! The layer thicknesses were so coarse you couldn't get smooth surfaces on lower angles, or curves, and wouldn't have been able to produce what you now see it Ti, fantastic.
It's directly analogous to computer graphics rendering, 14 years ago, C64 blocky graphics, now PS3 rendering.
Now all I need is a frame size printer in a shop somewhere, we we can go in, get sized, choose a design, and pick up the frame and fork the next day.
That's brilliant, and a great video. If you used this to create a frame, you're not limited to tubes, or carbon layup restrictions... there will be some wonderfully beautiful, and some wonderfully ugly, creations with this technology, but I look forward to seeing it used more.
This is an excellent article, about a genuinely innovative new technology. Thank you for bring it to the attention of your readers. One thing though, "etching" is a specific term referring to selective removal of a thin layer from a material, usually using acid. This process would seem to be the exact opposite.
It would be interesting to produce honeycombed tubing in this way. You could produce a titanium bike and forks in the classic thin style. The main problem I have with carbon is just how fat and overblown they look - especially in the bottom bracket area. A titanium bike that looks like the old Speedwell would be a dream machine.


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Chapter 12, "Optimizing the TopLink Application"
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- 1 Bed
- 2 Full
- 625 +/- Sqft
Property TypeResidential – Condo
SubdivisionEXPEDITION STATION
Listing Date02/12/19
Year Built1998
Property Description
This charming Expedition Station has been recently updated with granite counter tops with under mount stainless steel sink, stainless steel GE appliances and beautiful tile throughout the kitchen, dining and living room. The configuration of the floorplan is ideal for your family's enjoyment or as an amazing investment property. It currently sleeps 6 with its Murphy bed, sleeper sofa and private master bedroom. The ideal 2-shower bathroom configuration affords privacy and convenience.
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- Ground Floor Master
- Cable Tv
- City Sewer
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- Baseboard
- Common
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In the winter Keystone offers three challenging mountains on over 3,148 skiable acres, an 11.5-hour ski day and A51, one of the largest night terrain parks in North America. In the summer, visitors and locals enjoy two 18-hole championship golf courses, fly-fishing, horseback riding and countless other mountain activities. Year-round, Keystone features award-winning dining, and shops in River Run and Lakeside Village. Ski under the stars and lights, enjoy the Wine Jazz and Art Festival or relax along the seven miles of the Snake River that runs through town. Enjoy award-winning dining at the Ski Tip lodge, the Keystone Ranch, or the Alpen Stube.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
PARES - Portal de Archivos Españoles
Hands down the best website for Spanish genealogy is http://www.pares.mcu.es The website has great genealogical information and online records for the entire country of Spain. If you haven't visited the site yet, you are missing out on some great stuff. Granted it doesn't have every Spaniard that ever lived, but it is a great place to start.
A couple of weeks ago I was in Austin, Texas presenting a couple of classes at the Nosotros Los Tejanos confernece. One of my classes focused on finding immigrant ancestors from Spain. I quickly found myself adjusting my class to the audience...you can really divide Spanish emigration into two time periods 1) Early to 1821 2) 1821 to Present-more or less. Of the fifity plus that were in the class not one had ancestors that arrived after the Colonial period ended. The class that I had hard time preparing actually became fairly easy to teach, thanks to Pares.
I am not claiming that all Spaniards will be in the database, however, Spanish law before 1821 'forced' all those leaving to go through the port in Sevilla. How many actually followed that law compared to how many actually emigrated is another topic. The Archivo General de Indias maintains a collection called: Libros de Asientos: Pasajeros a Indias, and has published a series of books called Catálogos de Pasajeros a Indias, which is basically an extraction of the libros and the petitions to emigrate from the Sevilla port. Both of these are available through Pares (up to 1700 at least). The Catálogos de Pasajeros a Indias is important in this case, because it makes searching the libros de asientos possible. The libros de asientos on the site are the actual images listing the emigrants, which are not in the best shape, and for anyone trying to read Spanish handwriting from before the early 1600s knows how difficult it can be.
The best way to access the collections is to do a Búsqueda Simple or Avanzada. To narrow your search make sure that you specify a time period and select the appropriate archive...in this case that would be the Archivo General de Indias. You can browse the collection by selecting the Inventario Dinámico de Archivos and selecting Archivo General de Indias. To see the original images you will need to enter the Casa de la Contratación the extracted entries can be browsed by going to The Catálogos de Pasajeros a Indias.
Before you search you will want the essentials...at least the name of your immigrant ancestor and a fairly narrow date range of when he left Spain for the New World. Without at least this information you search might be in vain. Please keep in mind that I am not advocating that everyone that emigrated to the New World between the mid 1500s thru about 1821 will be found on the site. I am suggesting that you begin your search here though...searching the internet from home is a lot cheaper and faster than most other methods. Give the site a chance, I think you will be surprised how much genealogical and historical information the Ministerio de Cultura has added to the site. The site is free to use, and it has become a lot easier to use too.
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Dear Lynn,
I have a couple of questions which I was hoping you could answer. Did people to whom permits were given to set sail to Spain's overseas territories have to register anywhere at their port of arrival, or did they have to show their permit when they disembarked or anything else? Are there any archives which one can search for people arriving from the old world in the new world, just like one can search the PARES database for people leaving the old world?
I understand that illegal emigration from Spain to Spain's overseas territories was widespread. I remember having read somewhere, but I cannot remember where, that up to half of all people who emigrated to Spanish America did so illegally – so without getting a permit. What are your thoughts on this figure? Finally, could you recommend any books on emigration from Spain to the Americas during colonial times in general?
Thank you for your reply.
Oscar Leal
- August 14, 2008 at 11:10 AM


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