An Introduction to Researching Your Mexican Ancestors

Lecture Description

This overview lecture covers key U.S. records and strategies for identifying when and where your Mexican ancestors immigrated, and for identifying their hometown in Mexico. It also reviews the main record collections for tracing those family lines further back in Mexico.

This class is ideal for anyone new to researching their Mexican lines, as well as those still relatively new to genealogy in general. Learn how even a non-Spanish speaker can be successful at this research.

Lecture Summary

• Length: 60 minutes, including Q&A
• Audience: Genealogists and family historians, educators, and students

Related Lectures

You might also want to consider booking my other Mexican & Hispanic lectures.

• The American Southwest: Digitized Collections & Archival Finding Aids
• Getting to Know Mexican Church & Civil Registration Records
• An Introduction to Researching Your Mexican Ancestors
• An Introduction to Researching Hispanic Ancestry
• Social History: Painting a Bigger Picture of Your Hispanic Ancestors’ Lives
• The Suspect Centenarian: Using a Common U.S. Source to Build an Immigrant Life Story
• Working More In-Depth with Mexican Civil Registration Records
• Working More In-Depth with Mexican Parish Registrations
• Your 19th & 20th Century Mexican Ancestors in the U.S.
  (available as of March 2020)