1: Getting Started: Home, Family, And Internet Searches
2: Finding And Working With Mexican Records
Family history library catalog
Working with Mexican records
Reading Spanish-language documents
3: Civil Registration Records
Civil registration birth records
Civil registration marriage process
Civil registration death records
Parish confirmation records
Parish research using the international genealogical index and Mexican vital records index
5: Finding The Place In Mexico
Political divisions of Mexico
Catholic Church divisions
Looking for jurisdictional information at the FHLC
Geographical dictionaries, atlases, and gazetteers
Church guides and directories
6: Beyond The Parish: Church And Government Records
Archives: the place to find original records
Record types within Mexican archives
7: Beyond The Parish: Notarial Records
Organization, indexing, and formatting of protocols
Where can I find notarial documents?
8: Searching For Your Mexican Surnames
Searching for individuals
Searching for family histories and biographies online
Searching for histories or descriptions of your surname and its origin
9: Searching For Your Ancestors In United States Records
United States federal censuses
World War I military draft registration
Alien registrations of 1940
Catholic Church parish records in the United States
United States vital registration records
Other United States record sources
10: Research In Mexican Colonial Records
Mexican colonial records and jurisdictions
Locating other colonial records of genealogical value
Appendix B: Timeline of Mexican history
Appendix C: Research forms
Appendix D: Archives of the states of Mexico
Appendix E: Researching in the Archivo General de la Nacion from the United States
Appendix F: Internet sites for Mexican genealogy
General Hispanic genealogy Websites
General archives and history Websites
Mexican and Mexican American Websites
