Spain

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.

Catholic parish records are among the richest resources for family history research in Spain and Latin America. Catholicism has been the predominant religion in these countries for centuries. As a result, the local parish priest recorded the happiest and saddest events of the lives of our ancestors, from their baptism as an infant to their final resting place. Come learn about the history, use and content of parish records to flesh out the lives of your ancestors. Tips and strategies will be presented which will facilitate your success in locating and searching these records. Stories from parish records will be shared to highlight the richness of the records. All the videos together will take you 39:16 to complete.

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 lesson will teach you to use the website Dokuklik to search online for the parish records indexes for the three provinces of the Basque country (País Vasco) in Spain. You will also learn about the Hispanic surname system and several successful search tips and techniques.

At the end of this presentation you will know what information is needed to get your ancestor across the pond what U.S. record types could supply that information what kinds of records and resources you might expect to search once you’ve crossed the pond and where to find help when you need it.

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.

In this segment you will learn what information you need in order to get across the pond.

This segment will review the types of records you might encounter when researching internationally.

In this segment we will conduct a mini case study.