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Getting started with Mexican research
Welcome to the México page! FamilySearch Wiki is a community website dedicated to helping people throughout the world learn how to find their ancestors. Through the México page you can learn how to find, use, and analyze Mexican records of genealogical value. The content is variously targeted to beginners, intermediate, and expert researchers. The México Page is a work in progress, your contributions and feedback are essential!
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Jurisdictions - States
- All records collections for Mexico available on FamilySearch.org.
- Join our group of Mexico researchers on Facebook
- Locating Place of Origin for Mexican Immigrants
- Looking 4 Kin Genealogy & Family History Network - Mexico
- Spanish Letter Writing Guide
- Spanish Genealogical Word List
- Mexican Genealogy - A website to educate and provide its readers with resources to locate their Mexican Ancestors, whom at one point lived in Mexico. Also on Facebook.
- Mexican Research Outline
- Research Guide:BYU Research Outline for Mexico
- Mexico Civil Registration Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- See the tutorials in FamilySearch.org pertaining to Latin American research.
Wiki articles describing these collections are found at:
- Central America, Colonial Census Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Mexico, Baja California and Baja California Sir States Catholic Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Mexico Baptisms (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Mexico 1930 Census (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Mexico Civil Registraion Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Mexico Deaths (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Mexico, Distrito Federal, Catholic Church Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Mexico Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Mexico, Mexico State Catholic Church Records (FamilySearch Historica Records)
- Mexico, State of Mexico Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Mexico, State of Morelos Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Mexico, State of Quintana Roo Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records
- Mexico, State of San Luis Potosi Civil Registrations (FamilySearchHistorical Records)
- Mexico, San Luis Potosi Historical Archive Miscellaneous Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Mexico, State of Sonora Civil Registrations (FamilySearch Historical Records)
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- Land records are primarily used to learn where an individual lived and when he or she lived there. They often reveal other information, such as the name of a spouse, heir, other relatives, or neighbors. You may learn where a person lived previously, his or her occupation, and other clues for further research. Read more...
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