This section of the presentation teaches about El Camino Real, a major pathway for migrants from southern Mexico up in to present-day New Mexico.
Are you new to family history research and have ancestors from Mexico? If so, this class highlights four important collections in Ancestry.com that will help you get started. It also includes tips and strategies for using these collections to improve your chance for success.
This class will teach you various ways to search the historical records collections of FamilySearch for Hispanic ancestors in order to improve your search results. You will learn how to search by name and relationships. You will also learn how to apply filters, browse images and use the catalog to find other records for your ancestors.
This section of the presentation discusses the importance of jurisdictions and how knowing the history of an area can help you to locate the records of your ancestor.
This section of the presentation highlights migration paths from northern Mexico into Texas and Louisiana.
This section of the presentation highlights some helpful resources for locating records of immigrants to New Spain.
This section of the presentation presents some of the varied reasons an immigrant might have come to New Spain.
This presentation highlights the objectives of the series which are: Understand migration patterns in New Spain and how they impacted record keeping. Learn how you can use these migration patterns to locate records for your Hispanic ancestors in the northern hemisphere.
This class will help you to find information to identify the ancestor in the records of his hometown. The Mexico-United States border crossing information and their content is analyzed during this class.
We will go over what happens if you have exhausted the online sources and what to do next.
In this section we will go over some of the internet resources that are available for the Mountain West as well as some sources for Newspapers.*The websites found at 0:42.1:50, 2:52-4:03, and 6:30-7:04 are outdated screenshots. Some of the information about these sites is also outdated. Albeit these sites are outdated, these sites are still helpful with your research.*
In this section we will discuss the Military records for the Mountain West.
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