http://www.houstonculture.org/mexico/states.html
Please visit the site for a good reading experience on discovering your family history.
For those of us looking into areas of Mexico for our family history, there are a lot of maps and images out there labeling the states and cities of Mexico. This map here, provided by the Houston Institute for Culture is one of my favorites. This map is not just an image, but by clicking the various states names, it takes you to a history of that state. Also, there are other links that provides information on the various languages and also on the Aztec Empire.
http://www.houstonculture.org/mexico/states.html Please visit the site for a good reading experience on discovering your family history.
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All my genealogy searching has been completed online through various websites and sources. Until lately when I have been stuck at my brick wall on my fathers side with my 5x GGrandfather.
I visited one of the LDS Research Centers for the first tine today, here in my area, and although I was still unsuccessful, it was a nice experience. The aids and the librarian were very friendly and willing to help and I did learn how to use the microfilm machine. Once again, due to my age, the ladies were surprised at what I have accomplished and asked how long I have been researching. When I told them about 8 years, they just stared at me with an odd expression. It was very nice to receive compliments for my work I have done and even to be told that I was “scholarly”. Although my visit today did not help with my brick wall, I will go back or visit a different LDS center for assistance. --Originally posted on Tumblr on Aug 27, 2013 http://fickettstgenealogy.tumblr.com Whether you are a seasoned genealogist or a family researcher attempting to gather information on family history, taking a class or two is not a bad idea. There’s a wide variety of classes and courses available and the choices keep growing.
Here is a short list of Online classes available in the genealogy field. Some of these classes are for certificate, degree or non-credit. Please check with the site prior to registering for a course.
There is such an excitement for genealogists and historians to do grave hunts. At least there is for me. Not only can you gather information and add that information to your already growing family tree, but you are literally stepping on the ground where your ancestors once were. Is there also disappointment in grave hunts? Sure. If there are no tomb stones, there is no additional information. There is then only hope that the office at the funeral home or mortuary has as much information they can give you as possible. This is what happened to me on one of my trips to look for my great grandmother and her baby. I ventured out looking for her grave filled with excitement and camera in hand and papers at the ready with the information I had. My first stop was at the office at the mortuary, where the very helpful clerk showed me the direction I needed to go. After wandering around for a while, finally, there they were, mother and child, right next to each other. There were these two empty spaces of grass between other spaces of markers and headstones right up against a chain link fence. Following the directional numbers between the headstones, I knew that was my great grandmother and her son. Very sad. So I left that day feeling a little empty handed, but quite fulfilled in the knowledge that I was there with them, even if it was just for a moment. At the time of their burial, they couldn’t afford the headstones, but they were buried together, as they passed away together. So that is where they rest, in a beautiful cemetery, together, forever. I am glad I made that journey. Having been an Ancestry.com member for a number of years now, I have made my family tree both public and private throughout the years. I’ve now had it public for a while and once again recently changed it to private. This change was prompted by a couple different members using some of my documents and information that I had discovered and very proudly added to my family tree. So here is the question: is this right? Is this fair? Is it ok for other members of Ancestry.com to look at what other members have done on their trees and attach it onto their own? Why am I so frustrated by this? For this reason, the documents that the other users have attached to their trees are records that have taken me an endless amount of hours researching through the online records on FamilySearch.com and translating and dissecting the 19th and 18th Century Spanish handwriting, especially since I am not fluent in Spanish. So for someone to just come along and attach it to their tree, then to not even do the extra step and add the links that I included that referenced the sources, is very frustrating. So I made the decision to change my family tree to private. Now, I am aware that by doing this, this is not contributing to the genealogy community, but at the same time, were those other members contributing to the community by basically copying and pasting other genealogists’ work? That is my question I am posing here. I suppose I am actually posing a few questions: 1) Is that fair? 2) Public or private ? 3) Does this create community contribution limits or no ? I had already began placing watermarks on my images I was posting on my family tree online, I wonder if the other users have noticed that yet? Maybe that should be question 4. Watermarks or no watermarks? Public tree or private, which do you prefer and why? Nancy Ellen Carlberg’s book “Beginning Mexican Research” is a must have book for anyone doing Mexican research. The table of context is huge and the information is fantastic. There is everything in this book. There is the basic how-to guide on how to fill out a pedigree chart and family group sheet to listing the different days of the week in Spanish and in Latin. If you are uncertain about how to use maps or how to read record symbols, the author includes a list of common symbols found in records and what they translate to. For maps and gazatteers, she lists the references the researcher can go to for added assistance. This book gives a nice, huge list of varied resources for the reader. It just depends on what the reader is looking for. By the time this book is fully read, there will be sticky notes and highlighter marks throughout the whole thing. There are web and street addresses and book references throughout. There are are charts, translations, lists, abbreviations translated from Spanish to English and many more that cannot be covered in this simple review here. As a genealogist and a researcher of Mexican Genealogy, I highly recommend this book. When it comes to organization I consider myself a slightly organized person. I have my bookmarks for health websites, for family websites, and I have my genealogical bookmarks. I have lots of folders on my desktop that have folders within folders. When I went on vacation to Europe, I have my photos in labeled folders. The problem is, I have pictures on my desktop, on my phone and on my iPad. I also have bookmarks on my desktop, on my phone, and guess what, my iPad as well. Maybe I am not as organized as I thought I was. I am new to the world of Evernote, but in the short time that I have began using it, I absolutely love it. I use it primarily for my genealogical research, but it is also good for anything. Household accounts, family business, etc. The user can either create an account online or download the app onto their device and that is it. So simple. Nothing to purchase, it is free. There is an option to upgrade, but so far, personally, I have no need for that. Once inside Evernote, create a Folder, and inside the Folder create a Note. That is where your information is stored. and that is it. The information is saved. The user can than access that information anywhere. It is absolutely fantastic. Also, it is not only text notes, that can be saved, but also web links, images and sound recordings as well. It allows the user to keep their information in one place, where it is easily accessed at any time. Brilliant. Example: I can find a document I have been searching for at home on my desktop, but need to step away for a while, but know I will need to access it later in the day. So I would place it into a new Note in a new Folder in Evernote. Later on I can then open my phone or iPad and open the app, and there the document will be. Very simple. As a genealogist and a wife and family member, I highly recommend using Evernote. If there is ever anything that you need to remember, this will assist. 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AuthorMy name is Kristine, I am the creator of this site and have been researching the Roman and Perez family names for about 8 years and have enjoyed every frustrating minute of it. Archives
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