Finding your Mexican ancestors : a beginner's guide George R. Ryskamp, Peggy H. Ryskamp

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryskamp, George R.

Contributor:

Ryskamp, Peggy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexico--Genealogy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Mexico.

Mexican Americans--Genealogy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--Genealogy.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xiii, 209 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Provo, Utah : Ancestry Pub., 2007.

Summary:

From the Publisher: 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.

Contents:

Introduction

Notes

1: Getting Started: Home, Family, And Internet Searches

Home search

Talk to family members

Internet searches

What next?

2: Finding And Working With Mexican Records

Family history library catalog

No matching places found

Working with Mexican records

Reading Spanish-language documents

3: Civil Registration Records

Indexes

Civil registration birth records

Civil registration marriage process

Civil registration death records

4: Parish Records

Reading parish records

Parish record format

Parish baptismal records

Parish confirmation records

Parish marriage records

Parish death records

Parish research using the international genealogical index and Mexican vital records index

5: Finding The Place In Mexico

Political divisions of Mexico

Catholic Church divisions

Historical changes

Looking for jurisdictional information at the FHLC

Geographical dictionaries, atlases, and gazetteers

Church guides and directories

Where do I go from here?

6: Beyond The Parish: Church And Government Records

Archives: the place to find original records

Record types within Mexican archives

7: Beyond The Parish: Notarial Records

Organization, indexing, and formatting of protocols

Where can I find notarial documents?

8: Searching For Your Mexican Surnames

Searching for individuals

Searching for family histories and biographies online

Searching for histories or descriptions of your surname and its origin

9: Searching For Your Ancestors In United States Records

Border crossing records

United States federal censuses

Social Security records

Naturalization records

World War I military draft registration

Alien registrations of 1940

Military service records

Railroad pension records

Catholic Church parish records in the United States

United States vital registration records

Other United States record sources

10: Research In Mexican Colonial Records

Mexican colonial records and jurisdictions

Catholic Church records

Using government records

Civil legal documents

Military records

Race in colonial times

Locating other colonial records of genealogical value

Appendix A: Glossary

Appendix B: Timeline of Mexican history

Appendix C: Research forms

Research log

Appendix D: Archives of the states of Mexico

Appendix E: Researching in the Archivo General de la Nacion from the United States

Published indexes

Appendix F: Internet sites for Mexican genealogy

General Hispanic genealogy Websites

General archives and history Websites

Mexican and Mexican American Websites

Bibliography

Index

About the authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) and indexes.

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

ISBN:

9781593313074

1593313071

9781630263355

1630263354

OCLC:

74941086

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