The Centro Ciudadano Valle de Guerra will host this Thursday (17 July), at 18:00 hours, the presentation of volume II of Documentos para la Historia de Tegueste, Tejina, Bajamar, Punta del Hidalgo and Valle de Guerra. The work, the result of the work of several authors, not only compiles the genealogy of the northeastern region during the 17th century, but also allows us to retrace the evolution of its villages and to learn about the legal acts that brought people before the notary public, such as marriage dowries or proofs of blood purity.

This collective work, published by Le Canarien Ediciones and with the collaboration of the Cultural Heritage Department of La Laguna, has benefited from the participation of Sergio Oliva, Francisco Cejas-Fuentes, Carlos Hernández, Elías de León, Juan Elesmí de León and María del Pilar Vallejo. In addition, the work has been prefaced by Roberto J. González Zalacaín, professor of Medieval History at the University of La Laguna and director of the Institute of Canarian Studies, Roberto J. González Zalacaín.

The Councillor for Cultural Heritage, Adolfo Cordobés, points out that “this meticulous research work represents an essential advance in the understanding of the historical and patrimonial wealth of La Laguna, a valuable tool to bring us closer to our roots, discover new perspectives and reinforce our identity as a community. We trust that this publication will become a symbol of our collective memory and a recognition of all the people who have contributed to forging the villages of the northeast of La Laguna and Tegueste, a town with which we share deep cultural and emotional ties”.

This work is the continuation of the book published last year, which covered the earliest available documentary references to the region and ended in 1605. Once again, it has become a rigorous and practical tool for genealogical research which, on this occasion, focuses the study on the 17th century and incorporates Valle de Guerra.

This edition compiles an enormous amount of documentary sources that allow us to approach the private life of a very significant part of the people who lived in the 17th century in this territory, thousands of references collected by researchers in different archives and which, until now, remained in oblivion.

It brings together hundreds of pages of data from books of baptisms, marriages, deaths, wills, etc. from the parishes of the Northeast and the whole island, as well as references from other documentary collections, such as the Provincial Historical Archive, the Diocesan Historical Archive of San Cristóbal de La Laguna and the Zárate Cólogan Archive.