Guide to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations Secretaries' Files: Guatemala Mission

Numbering of folders within this RG begins with 1 at the beginning of each series rather than each box, creating multiple folders with the same numbers within a box. The researcher must therefore specify the series, not just the box and folder number, when requesting materials.

The researcher should be advised that part of the collection, from about 1960 onward, contains a great deal of material in Spanish, relatively little of which has been translated.

Before 1940, the BFM used a classification scheme for its records. The researcher will see hyphenated numbers on the documents in the collection. The following is a guide to the numbers after the hypen:

1 Minutes, estimates, appropriations
2 Reports--station, educational, narrative, etc.
3 Corespondence with those who were not regular missionaries
4 Cables
5 Letters from the BFM to the various missions (numbered)
6 Correspondence with mission secretary
7 Personal labor reports
8 Statistical summaries
9 Property
10 Correspondence with mission personel. At times each correspondent was given a number so the numbers continued beyond 11.

Collection processed: 1982
Robert Goldstein and Frederick J. Heuser, Jr, Assistant Archivist

Finding Aid prepared: 1982
Frederick J. Heuser, Jr, Assistant Archivist

Finding aid revised: May 1992
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist