How long does it take to read Guía Familiar de Baja California, 1700-1900?
Pablo L. Martínez
Guía Familiar de Baja California, 1700-1900 by Pablo L. Martínez takes about 18 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 18 hours 41 minutes
A long haul
First published 1965. 1,019 pages, about 280,225 words.
38 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 31 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 18 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It is principally a listing of the handwritten mission records for Southern Baja California between the years of 1700-1900. The records include baptisms, marriages, and funerals. There are few records from the first 100 years, as immigration to Baja and Alta California was not permitted by the Spanish government. Still, there were a few exceptions, mission soldiers' families and such. After 1824, the Mexican government permitted immigration, and the number of citizens grew rapidly. There are also some interviews of live citizens of Baja Sur who know their ancestry way back on the peninsula. There is a bit of history of the early days of the peninsula. That part and the interviews are bilingual in Spanish and English. I have found the book in the state archives for Baja California Sur in La Paz, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley.
Subjects: Biography, Genealogy, history Baja California Sur
