The books titled Diccionario Biografico del Occidente Novohispano by Thomas Hillerkuss contain a treasure trove of genealogical information.
I first came aware of them a few years ago while researching some ancestors out of Zacatecas.
As far as I am aware of, there are four volumes covering the last names
The books titled Diccionario Biografico del Occidente Novohispano by Thomas Hillerkuss contain a treasure trove of genealogical information.
I first came aware of them a few years ago while researching some ancestors out of Zacatecas.
As far as I am aware of, there are four volumes covering the
In this post, you will find a great resource that contains information on some of the first conquistadors and land titles of Jalisco, Mexico.
This resource is a book titled "Ameca, Protufundacion Mexicana: historia de la propiedad del valle de Ameca, Jalisco y circunvecindad".
Ameca is a municipality
In this blog post, Researching Early Church Records for Mexico you will learn how to find your ancestors in some of the earliest church records created in Mexico.
For a while, I had several ancestor names in my tasks (records to get) that I needed baptism records for but I …
In this post, you will learn how to find your ancestors using genealogy indexes. Indexes are vital to every family historian and genealogist alike.
A genealogical index is basically a listing by alphabetical order or yearly order of a record set or collection for a …
The House of Cabrera in Cordoba is a book that P. Francisco Ruano wrote back in 1756 and published in 1779. Its Spanish name is “Casa de Cabrera en Cordova: Obra Genealogica Historica”.
With this post, I am sharing with you the Google Books scanned copy. You can find the …
In this post, I will show you why it is important to analyze the marriage records that you find. Nowadays indexes have made it so easy for us to find marriage dates for our ancestors.
Tools like books, FamilySearch, and ancestry make it so easy for us. Many times we …
The book by Marc Simmons "The Last Conquistador Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest" is an excellent book. I highly recommend it to anyone that has ancestors that went with Onate to New Mexico.
You will not find much genealogical information on them but you
The book Moctezuma's Children: Aztec Royalty under Spanish Rule 1520–1700 is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to find out more about the descendants of Moctezuma.
Through, my research I have not come across any books that focus on the genealogy of Native Americans or Indigenous Natives of Mexico,
A few weeks ago I ran across some books that will interest you. The Golden Book of the Spanish Nobility is actually a six-volume set.
It is free to download and it has been an invaluable resource for researching the ancestors of my 13th great-grandparents Lope de Sosa and Ines …
I recently came across two books that document The Genealogy of the Oldest Families of Mexico. Both were written by Don Ricardo Ortega y Perez Gallardo in 1908. They are titled Historia Genealogica de las Familias Mas Antiguas de Mexico.
Don Ricardo’s focus is the genealogy of the titled and …