Finding Your Mexican Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide
Finding Your Mexican Ancestors is essential to any researcher looking to trace their heritage across the Rio Grande. In it, authors George and Peggy Ryskamp show how easy Mexican American research can be providing detailed descriptions of parish records, civil records, and other types of records common in Mexico.
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Finding Your Mexican Ancestors is essential to any researcher looking to trace their heritage across the Rio Grande. In it, authors George and Peggy Ryskamp show how easy Mexican American research can be providing detailed descriptions of parish records, civil records, and other types of records common in Mexico.
Introduction ixNotes xiiiGetting Started: Home, Family, and Internet Searches 1The Home Search 1Talk to Family Members 7Internet Searches 8What Next? 9Finding and Working with Mexican Records 13The Family History Library Catalog 13No Matching Places Found 17Working with Mexican Records 18Reading Spanish-Language Documents 23Civil Registration Records 25Indexes 26Civil Registration Birth Records 27The Civil Registration Marriage Process 28Civil Registration Death Records 32Parish Records 37Reading Parish Records 37Parish Record Format 38Parish Baptismal Records 41Parish Confirmation Records 43Parish Marriage Records 43Parish Death Records 46Parish Research Using the International Genealogical Index and Mexican Vital Records Index 50Notes 53Finding the Place in Mexico 55Political Divisions of Mexico 55Catholic Church Divisions 56Historical Changes 58Looking for Jurisdictional Information in the FHLC 58Geographical Dictionaries, Atlases, and Gazetteers 61Church Guides and Directories 67Where Do I Go from Here? 67Notes 67Beyond the Parish: Church and Government Records 71Archives: The Place to Find Original Records 72Record Types Within Mexican Archives 77Notes 85Beyond the Parish: Notarial Records 87Organization, Indexing, and Formatting of Protocolos 88Where Can I Find Notarial Documents? 94Notes 96Searching for Your Mexican Surnames 99Searching for Individuals 99Searching for Family Histories and Biographies Online 100Searching for Histories or Descriptions of Your Surname and Its Origin 103Searching for Your Ancestors in United States Records 107Border Crossing Records 107United States Federal Censuses 113Social Security Records 118Naturalization Records 118World War I Military Draft Registration 119Alien Registrations of 1940 119Military Service Records 119Railroad Pension Records 121Catholic Church Parish Records in the United States 121United States Vital Registration Records 122Other United States Record Sources 122Notes 122Research in Mexican Colonial Records 125Mexican Colonial Records and Jurisdictions 126Catholic Church Records 126Using Government Records 131Civil Legal Documents 134Military Records 136Race in Colonial Times 136Locating Other Colonial Records of Genealogical Value 139Notes 142Glossary 145Timeline of Mexican History 165Research Forms 171Research Log 179Archives of the States of Mexico 181Researching in the Archivo General de la Nacion from the United States 185Published Indexes 191Internet Sites for Mexican Genealogy 195General Hispanic Genealogy Websites 195General Archives and History Websites 195Mexican and Mexican American Websites 196Bibliography 199Index 205About the Authors 209
