Finding Your Mexican Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide (Finding Your Ancestors) - Hardcover

Ryskamp, George R.; Ryskamp, Peggy Hill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1630263354 ISBN 13: 9781630263355

Publisher: Ancestry.com, 2007

Synopsis

Finding Your Mexican Ancestors is essential to any researcher looking to trace their heritage across the Rio Grande. In it, authors George and Peggy Ryskamp show how easy Mexican American research can be providing detailed descriptions of parish records, civil records, and other types of records common in Mexico.

About this title

About the Author

George R. Ryskamp, J.D., AG, teaches Latin American and southern European family history at Brigham Young University, where he also serves as director of the Center for Family History and Genealogy and the Immigrant Ancestor Project. He is a fellow of the Utah Genealogical Association, a Miembro Academico of the Acedmia Americana de Genealogia, and a corresponding member of the Academia Real Matritense de Genealogia y Heraldica.

Peggy Hill Ryskamp has done Hispanic family history in the United States and on numerous trips to Spain and Mexico for more than twenty years. Coauthor of A Student's Guide to Mexican-American Genealogy, a speaker at local and national conferences, and former coeditor of The Genealogical Journal, she juggles client work and writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ancestry.com
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1630263354
• ISBN 13: 9781630263355
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224