Introduction -- Notes -- 1: Getting Started: Home, Family, And Internet Searches -- Home search -- Talk to family members -- Internet searches -- What next? -- 2: Finding And Working With Mexican Records -- Family history library catalog -- No matching places found -- Working with Mexican records -- Reading Spanish-language documents -- 3: Civil Registration Records -- Indexes -- Civil registration birth records -- Civil registration marriage process -- Civil registration death records -- 4: Parish Records -- Reading parish records -- Parish record format -- Parish baptismal records -- Parish confirmation records -- Parish marriage records -- Parish death records -- Parish research using the international genealogical index and Mexican vital records index -- Notes -- 5: Finding The Place In Mexico -- Political divisions of Mexico -- Catholic Church divisions -- Historical changes -- Looking for jurisdictional information at the FHLC -- Geographical dictionaries, atlases, and gazetteers -- Church guides and directories -- Where do I go from here? -- Notes -- 6: Beyond The Parish: Church And Government Records -- Archives: the place to find original records -- Record types within Mexican archives -- Notes -- 7: Beyond The Parish: Notarial Records -- Organization, indexing, and formatting of protocols -- Where can I find notarial documents? -- Notes -- 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 -- Border crossing records -- United States federal censuses -- Social Security records -- Naturalization records -- World War I military draft registration -- Alien registrations of 1940 -- Military service records -- Railroad pension records -- Catholic Church parish records in the United States -- United States vital registration records -- Other United States record sources -- Notes -- 10: Research In Mexican Colonial Records -- Mexican colonial records and jurisdictions -- Catholic Church records -- Using government records -- Civil legal documents -- Military records -- Race in colonial times -- Locating other colonial records of genealogical value -- Notes -- Appendix A: Glossary -- Appendix B: Timeline of Mexican history -- Appendix C: Research forms -- Research log -- Appendix D: Archives of the states of Mexico -- Appendix E: Researching in the Archivo General de la Nacion from the United States -- Published indexes -- Appendix F: Internet sites for Mexican genealogy -- General Hispanic genealogy Websites -- General archives and history Websites -- Mexican and Mexican American Websites -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors.
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