Sources, images, footage and music
5:12 · eight chapters · music-led film
The film follows surviving records from the Canary Islands to northern New Spain, the Río Grande frontier, Laredo and San Antonio. Original Revilla manuscripts, the 1825 land petition and Pedro Herrera’s service cards anchor parts of the story; other links depend on studies, indexes or earlier record readings. Gaps remain between generations, and the 1585/1583 marriage-year dispute stays visible. The historical timeline ends in 1940; Carlisle is the 2026 retelling frame.
“Bailar (Choory Vazquez Remix)” — Deorro feat. Elvis Crespo; remix by Choory Vazquez. Artist-posted download.
https://soundcloud.com/deejay-choory-vazquez/deorro-bailar-feat-elvis
Artist-posted free download; no blanket reuse licence is asserted over the separate music recording or composition.
Canary Islands, 1528 proceeding [Official archival publication]
AHPLP, Princesas Canarias, PDF pp. 9, 16–17. Describes the 31 August 1528 proceeding and 1529 outcome preserved in a later notarized copy. Not the untouched 1528 original.
Dara/Ara family on Tenerife [Published archival study]
González Marrero’s Dara/Ara family study, printed pp. 20–23, follows wills and property records. Individual original manuscripts are not all reproduced or independently checked.
https://www.segeheca.com/.cm4all/uproc.php/0/Publicaciones/LECTURAS%20AISLADAS.pdf?cdp=a
Alternative 1583 marriage transcription [Published transcription]
Somos Primos reports a parish-certified 1583 transcription; González Marrero gives 1585. The film retains the unresolved marriage year.
https://www.somosprimos.com/spjul01.htm
Francisco: mining and municipal office [Published archival history]
Cavazos Garza, printed pp. 80–81: the 1616 mining discovery and 1 October 1646 appointment. These are published archival findings.
https://humanitas.uanl.mx/index.php/ah/article/download/1869/1756/2966
1630 identity statement: translation [Published translation]
Raphael, reported p. 225: indexed translated text supports Francisco’s parent names and approximate ages. The Spanish manuscript was not inspected for this edition; page locator is carried from earlier research.
1650 residence testimony [Published archival transcription]
Mendirichaga Cueva, printed p. 254: testimony of 29 May 1650 reports over 35 years’ residence. It does not supply an exact sailing date.
https://humanitas.uanl.mx/index.php/ah/article/download/1878/1765/2975
Saltillo marriage, 5 February 1736 [Published extraction]
The 5 February 1736 Saltillo marriage names José Herrera and Ángela Josefa Gutiérrez. Working original locator: film 605094, image 234, entry 4; original not re-inspected.
https://www.scribd.com/document/674207629/scmv2-Families-of-Saltillo-vol-II-1723-1736
Plácido baptism index, 12 October 1753 [Parish index]
Plácido Herrera’s 12 October 1753 indexed baptism names Joseph Herrera and Ángela Gutiérrez. Index-level evidence; no original register image is shown.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6DKQ-J7YD
Jesús baptism, 3 December 1781 [Parish image reference]
The film carries an earlier original-image reading of 3 December 1781 naming José Plácido Herrera as father. Not freshly re-inspected; maternal surname uncertainty remains.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-D55V-B9
Laredo petition, 22 August 1825 [Primary manuscript]
Spanish Archives of Laredo, SMLBL_02-75-15: José Jesús de Herrera’s 22 August 1825 land request and separate 25 August provisional action. Final ownership is not established.
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth869162/
Historical Bexar marriage return, 1940 [Primary record reference]
Bexar County, instrument 126548, affidavit 26531, Book 74, p. 252. Earlier image reading distinguishes 15 October license, 18 October ceremony and 21 October recording in 1940. Historical endpoint only.
https://bexar.tx.publicsearch.us/doc/16002305
Revilla household and livestock inspection [Primary archival image]
AGN · Escandón 56, f.228v · UNAM; Archivo General de la Nación, México; manuscript facsimile and transcription presented by UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Poblar el Septentrión. Actual manuscript images. The second household-list locator is 241f, not 241v; Tadeo’s affiliation is not inferred.
https://www.septentrion.unam.mx/vistaFoja.php?foja=228v&vol=56
Revilla second household list [Primary archival image]
AGN · Escandón 56, f.241f · UNAM; Archivo General de la Nación, México; manuscript facsimile and transcription presented by UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Poblar el Septentrión. Actual manuscript images. The second household-list locator is 241f, not 241v; Tadeo’s affiliation is not inferred.
https://www.septentrion.unam.mx/vistaFoja.php?foja=241f&vol=56
Pedro Herrera muster abstract [Primary archival image]
NARA RG 109 · M323 roll 162 · via ACPL / Internet Archive; digital scan contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Recorded service endpoints only; no particular battle or personal presence in New Orleans is established.
https://archive.org/details/compiledservicer0162unit/page/n1764/mode/1up
Pedro Herrera surrender-roll abstract [Primary archival image]
NARA RG 109 · M323 roll 184 · via ACPL / Internet Archive; digital scan contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Recorded service endpoints only; no particular battle or personal presence in New Orleans is established.
https://archive.org/details/compiledservicer0184unit/page/n1104/mode/1up
1880 Webb County census roll [Census roll / incomplete image locator]
NARA T9, roll 1332 contains Webb County. The household statement is carried from an earlier image reading; this link opens the whole roll.
https://archive.org/details/10thcensus1332unit
Exact ED, sheet and frame remain to be captured. The 1900–1910 interval also comes from the earlier census sequence; precise image citations are not newly displayed.
Internal Provinces of New Spain · 1807
Library of Congress · Pike · 1807
Item reference: https://www.loc.gov/item/99446138/
Rights recorded: Public-domain historical LOC map, as recorded in the production source notes.
Film changes: Selected excerpt or framed detail with factual film captions.
Evidence limit: Map date is geographic context. It does not establish earlier borders, a family travel track or an 1825 property boundary.
Laredo, Gateway to and from Mexico · 1892
Library of Congress · 1892
Item reference: https://www.loc.gov/item/75696601/
Rights recorded: Public-domain historical LOC map, as recorded in the production source notes.
Film changes: Selected excerpt or framed detail with factual film captions.
Evidence limit: Map date is geographic context. It does not establish earlier borders, a family travel track or an 1825 property boundary.
City market, San Antonio · 1905
Rotograph Co., City market, San Antonio (1905), Library of Congress, item 2006686255.
Item reference: https://www.loc.gov/item/2006686255/
Rights recorded: Item terms apply; no blanket licence asserted.
Film changes: Selected excerpt or framed detail with factual film captions.
Evidence limit: Dated context; no family member or precise itinerary is identified.
A Storm at Sea · 1900
Edison Manufacturing Co., A Storm at Sea (1900), Library of Congress, item 00694309.
Item reference: https://www.loc.gov/item/00694309/
Rights recorded: LOC unrestricted-film collection statement recorded; item assessment remains with the publisher.
Film changes: Selected excerpt or framed detail with factual film captions.
Evidence limit: Sea footage dated 1900, centuries after the estimated crossing. It is not Francisco’s ship or voyage.
Revilla household and livestock inspection · 1757
AGN · Escandón 56, f.228v · UNAM; Archivo General de la Nación, México; manuscript facsimile and transcription presented by UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Poblar el Septentrión.
Item reference: https://www.septentrion.unam.mx/vistaFoja.php?foja=228v&vol=56
Rights recorded: Historical manuscript; digitizing institution’s reproduction terms apply.
Film changes: Selected excerpt or framed detail with factual film captions.
Evidence limit: Actual manuscript images. The second household-list locator is 241f, not 241v; Tadeo’s affiliation is not inferred.
Revilla second household list · 1757
AGN · Escandón 56, f.241f · UNAM; Archivo General de la Nación, México; manuscript facsimile and transcription presented by UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Poblar el Septentrión.
Item reference: https://www.septentrion.unam.mx/vistaFoja.php?foja=241f&vol=56
Rights recorded: Historical manuscript; digitizing institution’s reproduction terms apply.
Film changes: Selected excerpt or framed detail with factual film captions.
Evidence limit: Actual manuscript images. The second household-list locator is 241f, not 241v; Tadeo’s affiliation is not inferred.
Montaña de Gáldar · 1890–1895
FEDAC, Montaña de Gáldar, photograph 000667, dated 1890–1895.
Item reference: https://www.fotosantiguascanarias.org/oaistore/opac/ficha.php?codopac=OP003&idpag=1480613886&informatico=00000667MO&suposi=7
Rights recorded: Retain FEDAC attribution and the item reproduction statement.
Film changes: Selected excerpt or framed detail with factual film captions.
Evidence limit: Later Gáldar landscape; it does not depict the 1528 proceeding. This is the exact observed item reference, not the repository homepage.
View of Laredo, Texas in the early 1900 · early 1900s
Webb County Heritage Foundation, View of Laredo, Texas in the early 1900; via The Portal to Texas History, UNT Libraries, item metapth13268.
Item reference: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth13268/
Rights recorded: Item terms apply; no blanket licence asserted.
Film changes: Selected excerpt or framed detail with factual film captions.
Evidence limit: Town context dated early 1900s. No pictured person is identified as family.
Mesa del Mar waves 2 · 23 April 2023
Mike Peel, “Mesa del Mar waves 2” (23 April 2023), via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts with film captions and source labels.
Item reference: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mesa_del_Mar_waves_2.webm
Rights recorded: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Film changes: Selected excerpt or framed detail with factual film captions.
Evidence limit: Modern Tenerife coast, labelled 2023. No ancestral vessel, departure port or voyage is depicted.
José Jesús de Herrera land petition — scan 1 · 22 August 1825
St. Mary’s University, Louis J. Blume Library, Spanish Archives of Laredo, SMLBL_02-75-15; via The Portal to Texas History, UNT Libraries, item metapth869162, scan 1.
Item reference: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth869162/
Rights recorded: Item terms apply; no blanket licence asserted.
Film changes: Selected excerpt or framed detail with factual film captions.
Evidence limit: 22 August petition and 25 August provisional action are separate. Three physical pages and four scan canvases are catalogued. Final title is not established.
José Jesús de Herrera land petition — scan 2 · 22 August 1825
St. Mary’s University, Louis J. Blume Library, Spanish Archives of Laredo, SMLBL_02-75-15; via The Portal to Texas History, UNT Libraries, item metapth869162, scan 2.
Item reference: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth869162/
Rights recorded: Item terms apply; no blanket licence asserted.
Film changes: Selected excerpt or framed detail with factual film captions.
Evidence limit: 22 August petition and 25 August provisional action are separate. Three physical pages and four scan canvases are catalogued. Final title is not established.
Realejo de arriba, Tenerife · 1821
Alfred Diston, Realejo de arriba, Tenerife (1821), Yale Center for British Art, B1975.4.305. Museum image via Wikimedia Commons.
Item reference: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7795
Rights recorded: CC0 as recorded for the museum-image distribution
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Film changes: Selected excerpt or framed detail with factual film captions.
Evidence limit: Later geographic context; no ancestral person, house or departure port is identified.
View from Martianez, Port Orotava, Tenerife · 1819
Alfred Diston, View from Martianez, Port Orotava, Tenerife (1819), Yale Center for British Art, B1981.25.2826. Museum image via Wikimedia Commons.
Item reference: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7822
Rights recorded: CC0 as recorded for the museum-image distribution
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Film changes: Selected excerpt or framed detail with factual film captions.
Evidence limit: Later geographic context; no ancestral person, house or departure port is identified.
Canary Islands, Blaeu · 1667
Joan Blaeu, Insulae Canariae alias Fortunatae dictae (Amsterdam, 1667), in Atlas Van der Hagen, c. 1690. Hand-coloring attributed to Dirk Jansz van Santen. KB, National Library of the Netherlands, KW 1049 B 13, image 068. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Item reference: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlas_Van_der_Hagen-KW1049B13_068-INSULAE_CANARIAE_Alias_FORTUNATAE_dictae.jpeg
Rights recorded: Public Domain Mark 1.0
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Film changes: Selected excerpt or framed detail with factual film captions.
Evidence limit: European map of 1667; not an Indigenous map or a family voyage record.
Pedro Herrera muster abstract · 1862
NARA RG 109 · M323 roll 162 · via ACPL / Internet Archive; digital scan contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
Item reference: https://archive.org/details/compiledservicer0162unit/page/n1764/mode/1up
Rights recorded: Public-domain United States government record
Film changes: Complete-card crop and light deskew, with separate factual detail views.
Evidence limit: Recorded service endpoints only; no particular battle or personal presence in New Orleans is established.
Pedro Herrera surrender-roll abstract · 1865
NARA RG 109 · M323 roll 184 · via ACPL / Internet Archive; digital scan contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
Item reference: https://archive.org/details/compiledservicer0184unit/page/n1104/mode/1up
Rights recorded: Public-domain United States government record
Film changes: Complete-card crop and light deskew, with separate factual detail views.
Evidence limit: Recorded service endpoints only; no particular battle or personal presence in New Orleans is established.
Carlisle courthouse · 1861–1874
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Robin G. Stanford Collection, LOT 14110-19, no. 14, item 2016648855; photograph between 1861 and 1874.
Item reference: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016648855/
Rights recorded: No known restrictions on publication, as recorded by LOC.
Film changes: Selected excerpt or framed detail with factual film captions.
Evidence limit: Historic town context for the 2026 Carlisle retelling frame; not a modern migration record.
Six original locators use modern physical geography and public town reference points. Event labels are separate from map dates. Dotted connections identify broad endpoints, not a literal journey. Historical political borders are not drawn.
Across the Atlantic world
Natural Earth (public domain); GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).
Original map rendering plus event labels. Dotted connections show broad endpoints, not literal travel tracks.
By 1501 · Tenerife
Natural Earth (public domain); GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).
Original map rendering plus event labels. Dotted connections show broad endpoints, not literal travel tracks.
c. 1612 · An estimated Atlantic crossing
Natural Earth (public domain); GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).
Original map rendering plus event labels. Dotted connections show broad endpoints, not literal travel tracks.
1616 · Valle de las Salinas
Natural Earth (public domain); GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).
Original map rendering plus event labels. Dotted connections show broad endpoints, not literal travel tracks.
The Río Grande frontier
Natural Earth (public domain); GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). INEGI, Nomenclátor de Tamaulipas (1981), entry 1495.
Original map rendering plus event labels. Dotted connections show broad endpoints, not literal travel tracks.
1900–1910 · Laredo to San Antonio
Natural Earth (public domain); GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).
Original map rendering plus event labels. Dotted connections show broad endpoints, not literal travel tracks.
Natural Earth 1:10m physical land, public domain:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/master/geojson/ne_10m_land.geojson
Natural Earth 1:10m rivers/lake centerlines, public domain:
Natural Earth terms: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/
GeoNames cities500 gazetteer: https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/cities500.zip
GeoNames: CC BY 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Selected coordinate rows and IDs are preserved in the film’s source register.
INEGI, Nomenclátor de Tamaulipas (1981), PDF page 28, entry 1495: Guerrero Viejo, 26°46.6′ N, 99°20.4′ W.
The estimated Atlantic crossing has no established vessel, exact sailing date or landing port. A later landscape, map or photograph supplies dated context, not a depiction of an earlier family event. No face in a context image is identified as family.
The 1585/1583 marriage-year dispute remains open. The second Revilla household-list locator is 241f, not 241v; Tadeo’s parentage is not inferred. The unsupported 1685 Bernardo declaration quotation is omitted.
The public historical timeline ends with the 1940 Bexar County marriage return. Carlisle is the 2026 place of retelling; it does not supply a modern family migration year.
