Research Foundations
Step 1: Hometowns and names
- Getting Started (FamilySearch Wiki Article)
- Gazetteers (FamilySearch Wiki Article)
- Vaya con Dios: Hispanic immigration to Latin America
- 5 essential sources for your Spanish genealogy research (in Spanish)
- 5 essential sources for your Spanish genealogy research P2 (in Spanish)
- The disconcerting use of surnames by Spaniards (in Spanish)
- Spanish and Portuguese Surnames
Step 2: Spanish Archives
- PARES: The gateway to the Spanish archives - Introduction (in Spanish)
- PARES: The gateway to Spanish archives - How to search (in Spanish)
- PARES: The gateway to Spanish archives - How to locate an archive (in Spanish)
- PARES: The door to the Spanish archives - A summary (in Spanish)
- PARES: The door to the Spanish archives - How to find an immigrant (in Spanish)
Step 3: Civil Registration and Catholic Church Records
- The Ecclesiastical Records of Spain (in Spanish)
- The importance of pre-civil registration for genealogy
- The Spanish Civil Registry (in Spanish)
- Finding Echeverria in Spain and France - Introduction; Church Records; Civil Registration
- Learn about the baptismal record format (from the 16th century to the present day) (in Spanish)
- History of the Civil Registry and the double surname in Spain (in Spanish)
Other Record Types
Probate and Cemetery Records
- What Tombs Tell: Symbols, Beliefs, and Eternal Memory (in Spanish)
- How to obtain wills from Spanish ancestors (in Spanish)
Related Content
Spanish
- Reading Spanish Handwriting
- Paleogra-what?! Deciphering Spanish Handwriting – Introduction
- Paleogra-what?! Deciphering Spanish Handwriting – Spanish Alphabet
- Paleogra-what?! Deciphering Spanish Handwriting – Spanish Names
- Paleogra-what?! Deciphering Spanish Handwriting – Spanish Dates
- Paleogra-what?! Deciphering Spanish Handwriting – Spanish Records
- Paleogra-what?! Deciphering Spanish Handwriting – Key Terms: Births and Baptisms
- Paleogra-what?! Deciphering Spanish Handwriting – Key Terms: Marriages
- Paleogra-what?! Deciphering Spanish Handwriting – Key Terms: Deaths and Burials
- Paleogra-what?! Deciphering Spanish Handwriting – Online Resources
Additional Classes
- How Crypto-Jewish Genealogy is Different (in Spanish)
- My experience working on Spanish and Portuguese nationality cases based on Sephardic origin (in Spanish)
- How to build your family story based on your genealogy? Examples and case studies (in Spanish)
- Family history without borders: research from wherever you are (in Spanish)
