Mexican Genealogy Resources

Searching for ancestors in Mexico? This online course presented by Debbie Gurtler and FamilySearch will introduce you to the online resources you need to know.  Learn about the best databases and online archives and discover websites to help you with localities and immigration records.

Find more research guides for Mexico on FamilySearch's Learning Center and Wiki.

Online Resources for Mexico

Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month!

FamilySearch recently uploaded a new free webinar on Online Resources for Mexico. The webinar includes tips for finding online church directories and gazetteers as well as some great databases and online archives.

FamilySearch offers lots of webinars for Mexico, Latin America, and general Hispanic genealogy.

Books for National Hispanic Heritage Month

Discover some of our great print resources for Hispanic research in the Genealogy & Local History Room:

Hispanic American Genealogical Sourcebook
Discover basic genealogical records for Hispanic Americans, the major archives and organizations devoted to Hispanic research and understand the history of Hispanic emigration.

Finding Your Hispanic Roots
Learn about basic research techniques, records, and sources for all major Hispanic countries.

Hispanic Surnames and Family History
An exhaustive collection of Spanish surnames in Latin America and the US with resources for finding family history research for those names.

Census Records for Latin America and the Hispanic United States
A survey of census collections for Latin America and the Hispanic US. Explains where to find them and what information is included in each census. Extremely helpful for Spanish colonial records!

National Hispanic Heritage Month

September 15-October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Start finding your Hispanic ancestors with this class from FamilySearch: US Hispanic Immigrants: Finding Their Place of Origin.

You can find more online courses in Spanish on FamilySearch. They have courses specifically for Latinoamérica as well as classes that cover the basics for all of Spain, Latin America, and Mexico.

Mexican Genealogy

Celebrate your Mexican American heritage this Cinco de Mayo! Here are some websites to help you find your Mexican ancestors.

Hispanic Genealogy Blog The blog doesn't get updated incredibly frequently but you can still find plenty of great links and information on the site.

HISPAGEN, Asociación de Genealogía Hispana Hispanic genealogy organization with articles and genealogy indexes.

The Genealogy of Mexico An older website but still useful with genealogies of some of the first Europeans in Mexico.

Mexico Genealogy Forum A forum to discuss Mexican genealogy with other researchers.

Also search the National Archives of Mexico and the National Archives of Spain. The Spanish Archives have passenger lists from Spain to Latin America 1500s-1700s.

Many of these sites are in Spanish but you can always translate them with Google Translate.