International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences. Among others, this prize has been granted to: Genealogical records This institution, in collaboration with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had contributed during the microfilming process of the main Mexican Catholic Church records (1953–71), archiving the amount of 72,000 film rolls (86 million pages). Thanks to a contract among the aforementioned institutions, a whole copy of these microfilms were kept in possession of the Academia Mexicana de Genealogía y Heráldica; nowadays such copies are located in the Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico City), and are available for public consultation under the guidelines and regulations of the same institution. The AMGyH had signed collaboration documents with the historical archives of the Mexican states of Aguascalientes (2006) and Michoacán (2007) to contribute with the digitalization and preservation of their most valuable files. Colloquia (1987) I Coloquio sobre Arte, Religión y Genealogía (Pinacoteca Virreinal de San Diego, Mexico City, 25–27 August). The lectures were presented to general public and were given by: –"La Estirpe y Linaje de José María Morelos", by Ignacio Francisco González-Polo y Acosta –"La Casa de Echave de Laurcain; los tres pintores Baltasar de Echave (padre, hijo y nieto)", by Dolores Echave de Elguero –"Los padres Medina Picazo, los Condes de Medina y Torres y su huella monumental", by Francisco Javier de Castaños y Cañedo –"Una dinastía de Pintores Novohispanos, los Juárez y los Rodríguez Juárez, seis pintores en los siglos XVII y XVIII", by Alicia Enríquez de Pinal-Icaza –"En torno al retrato dieciochesco de un personaje virreinal, don Francisco Ignacio de Iraeta, del pintor Andrés Islas", by Salvador de Pinal-Icaza y Enríquez –"La Benemérita madre María Ignacia de Azlor y Echevers, hija de los Marqueses de San Miguel de Aguayo, fundadora de La Enseñanza", by Virginia Armella de Aspe –"Eulogio G. Gillow, Arzobispo de Oaxaca y la Casa Marquesal de Selva Nevada", by Mercedes Meade Esteva de Angulo –"Pintoras mexicanas del Siglo XIX", by Leonor Cortina de Pintado (1988) I Coloquio Hablemos de Heráldica (Pinacoteca Virreinal de San Diego, Mexico City, 10–18 February). The lectures were presented to general public and were given by: –"Heráldica en General, differencias nacionales", by Salvador de Pinal-Icaza y Enríquez –"Heráldica Religiosa", by Virginia Armella de Aspe –"Originalidad de la Heráldica Carolina en Indias", by Teodoro Amerlinck y Zirión –"Escudos de las Entidades Federativas Mexicanas", by Mercedes Meade Esteva de Angulo (1997) II