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Learn how to use the instructions and links of a Mexico State page on the Wiki to locate and use civil registration records.

Learn how to use the instructions and links of a Mexico State page on the Wiki to locate and use Catholic church records.

A case study demonstrating how to compile the records for one Mexican family in Catholic church records.

A case study demonstrating how to compile the records for one Mexican family in civil registration records.

For each State of Mexico, the Wiki has created an instructional page with all the links you need to find church records and civil registration records for that State.

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.

This section of the presentation highlights migration paths from northern Mexico into Texas and Louisiana.

The Mexico Genealogy main page is the “gateway” to all the features of the Wiki that help with Mexican genealogy: topic articles, strategy tools, research tools, language lessons, online records, and instructional pages specific to each state.

Learn how to write to a Mexico civil registration office or church to ask for records, using the Spanish Letter Writing Guide.

To use the records of Mexico, you must know the exact town where your ancestor lived. Learn how to search for that information in vital records, census records, cemetery records, obituaries, military records and Social Security records.