Mexico Resources

Date: 2022
Surnames/tags: Mexico Latin America Latin_American_Roots

Latin America Project ● Mexico Project ● Resources by Country

This page is for listing Mexico resources. Please add your resources here!

• México and Mexican History

Contents 1 Misc Resources 2 WikiTree Resources 2.1 Existing Categories 2.2 Related Free Space Pages 2.3 Other Wiki Tree Pages and Categories 2.3.1 Surname/Family Pages 3 Cemeteries 4 Free Resources 5 Paid Resource Sites

Misc Resources

• 'Mexico and the Southwest USA - Native Y-DNA', an article on Family Tree DNA (FTDNA). https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/mexico-amerindian/about/background
• Consiga su Arbol Genealogic Es el primer paso para su historia familiar o la de una persona que quiere, o la de un personaje que aprecia.
• ARCHIVO GENERAL DEL ESTADO DE COAHUILA
• The Bexar Archives are the official Spanish documents that preserve the political, military, economic, and social life of the Spanish province of Texas and the Mexican state of Coahuila. Both in their volume and breadth of subject matter, the Bexar Archives are one of the most important sources for the history of Hispanic Texas up to 1836
• UT Arlington Library's Special Collections has built a diverse research collection and collects materials in virtually all formats and makes them available to researchers.
• Indigenous Peoples of Mexico and Mesoamerica on Wikipedia
• The Indigenous People of Central Mexico By John P. Schmal on houstonculture.org website
• The Spanish Conquest of México (The Indigenous People of Central Mexico, 2, by John P. Schmal
• History of Mexico by John P. Schmal
• Tlaxaltec Indians
• Coahuila on history.com Website
• Tlaxcalteca

WikiTree Resources

• The Background Images Category contains pages that you can find a large variety of background images on. Most of them are tiled (repeatable) images.
• Editing Tips This page shows basic markup that can be used on WikiTree profiles and Space pages. Please remember not to use tables on profiles.
• Example Profiles This is a guideline on how the profiles can look.
• Mindy's Help Pages covers several general WikiTree help topics
• Pasajeros a Indias
• Spanish Vital Record Translations will help you learn to translate vital records from Spanish speaking countries.
• The WikiTree Browser Extension now includes functions from prior individual extensions.
  • WikiTree AGC This addon is to clean up gedcom 'clutter' once we've connected to existing profiles. It is awesome at cleaning up the gedcoms and putting the source information together. (Tutorial)
  • WikiTree BEE This addon is great for a lot of things, but the main help for the Challenge is the 'auto-bio' button that it puts on the profiles. This will give you basic narrative you can add to.There is a WikiTree BEE extension available for Chrome and Firefox users. (Tutorial)
• The WikiTree Sourcer helps you easily create narrative and complete source citations for any public or open profile. (Tutorial)

Existing Categories

• Nueva España
• Spain
• España
• Mexico
• México
• Spanish History
• Mexican History
• Texas History
• Texas

Related Free Space Pages

Provinces of New Spain

• Space: Province of Coahuila
• Resource Page Provincia of Nueva Santander
• Resource Page Provincia of Nueva León
• Resources Page Province of Nueva Vizcaya
• Resources Page Provincia of Durango
• Resources Page Provincia of Sonora
• Resource Page Baja California

Other Wiki Tree Pages and Categories

Spanish Colonies Home Page links to the other Spanish Territories of Texas, Florida, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and resources relevant to Spain and

Surname/Family Pages

• Garza Name Study
• Guerra Name Study
• Salazar Name Study
• Sanchez Name Study
• Soto Name Study
• Torres Name Study
• Trevino Name Study
• Space: Montemayor Name Study
• Category: Quintanilla Name Study
• Category: Cisneros Name Study
• Space: Tremiño Name Study

Cemeteries

• Wiki Tree, Coahuila, Cemeteries
• Coahuila Cemetery Listings (esp) on serviciosfunerarios.mx/municipios.php
• Find A Grave website Find A Grave has some cemetery listings but their international listings (at least for Mexico) is (or can be a little frustrating) since their search feature only allows the first three -four letters of the name of the cemetery. Most of the cemeteries in Mexico all begin with either Panteon or Cementario followed by the place name so if a person enters Pant then all cemeteries in Mexico that start with Panteon will be displayed.

Free Resources

• Rootsweb
• Familysearch.org

Genealogía de México

John D. Inclan's 66 Family Trees

John P. Schmal

Crispin P. Rendon

raullongoria.net

Nuestro Ranchos.com

Portal Archives of Spain (esp, sp)

Catalogue of the National Archives of Mexico

Mexican Military Archives 1821-1921 in spanish

The Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research

Biblioteca Digital Daniel Cosío Villegas Diccionario Geográfico, Histórico y Biográfico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Antonio García CubasDictionary of Places in Mexico

Archives Portal Europe

sologenealogia.com

Some Genealogical Societies are on social media such as facebook - For Example Rio Grande Valley Genealogical Society, South Texas Land Grant facebook pages (do a search and a few will come up).

Paid Resource Sites

• Ancestry.com

• Mexican Genealogy Research Online: A Guide to Help You Discover Your Ancestry

• Genealogy Services

• Find Your Mexican Ancestors in the Worlds Newspapers Using Eliphind