The National General Archives (Archivo General de la Nación – AGN) received the first of thousands of valuable historic documents on the early Spanish colonization days that had been stored at the Archivo General de las Indias and other historic archives in Spain. Roberto Cassá, director of the AGN, received the documentation for the AGN.
Also present was Dominican Ambassador in Spain, Olivo Rodriguez Hertas, and Jose Marmol, communications director for Grupo Popular, the bank group that will be funding the effort with a EUR325,000 donation. As part of the initiative, thousands of documents will e-digitalized as they arrive at the local national archives. The digitalization opens these historic documents for public research.
Cassá said that the donation of the documents opens the doors for Dominicans to study early Dominican history. “It is something transcendental that opens our history to the past, to the possibility of systemic research of the past,” he said as reported in Diario Libre. In the past, to study this period, historians needed to travel to Spain to research the original documents.
20 May 2019