Hispanic Research & Heritage

Family History Research & Methodology

Tips, tutorials, and tools to assist your research efforts.

Announcing My Monthly Hispanic SIG with the Virtual Genealogical Association
ColleenGreene.com
Our goal is that this SIG will help you advance your Hispanic research from the comfort and convenience of your home or wherever you have an internet connection. Join us on the 3rd Tuesday of each month (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Pacific).

Join Me for the 2019 Ohio Genealogical Society’s 2019 Annual Conference
ColleenGreene.com
The Ohio Genealogical Society has opened up registration for its 2019 Conference in Mason, Ohio this coming May. I am giving two traditional one-hour lectures, as well as teaching a two-hour workshop that will allow us to go more in-depth with those particular collections.

Latin America’s lost histories revealed in modern DNA
Science
"If you walked the cobblestone streets and bustling markets of 16th and 17th century Mexico City, you would see people born all over the world: Spanish settlers on their way to mass at the cathedral built atop Aztec ruins. Indigenous people from around the Americas, including soldiers who had joined the Spanish cause. Africans, both enslaved and free, some of whom had been among the first conquistadors. Asians, who traveled to Mexico on Spanish galleons, some by choice and some in bondage. All these populations met and mingled for the first time in colonial Latin America."

The Genetic Legacy of the Spanish Inquisition
The Atlantic
"In the case of conversos, DNA is helping elucidate a story with few historical records. Spain did not allow converts or their recent descendants to go to its colonies, so they traveled secretly under falsified documents...The designation applied not just to converts but also to their descendants who were always Catholic. It came with more than a whiff of a stigma."

Looking for your roots? For Asians, blacks and Latinos, DNA tests don't tell whole story
USA Today
"And the proportion of people with non-European ancestry buying the tests is increasing every year. That in turn is causing the heavily Euro-centric companies to scramble to add people from Africa, Asia and the Americas to their reference panels, the groups of people whose DNA is used to establish baseline ethnicities."

Jewish Inquisition Records for Mexico
Mexican Genealogy
Background information from Moises Garza about the Spanish Inquisition, and Jewish ancestry among those of Mexican descent, with tips on where to find records pertaining to the Inquisition in Mexico.  

Here’s When You Can Watch Season 5 of “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr.” (Premiers January 8th)
Family Tree Magazine
"In “Finding Your Roots,” historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents well-known Americans with their family histories in all their fascinating complexity and diversity."

5 Overlooked Things on FamilySearch
Amy Johnson Crow
"FamilySearch has billions of records for us to use in our genealogy. But there are 5 often-overlooked sections of the website that can be beneficial to our research. "

About that copyright notice
Judy Russell, the Legal Genealogist
"So… what’s this all about if, in fact, anything legally published in the United States before 1923 is officially once and for all forever and ever amen out of copyright?"

Revisiting the rules
Judy Russell, the Legal Genealogist
"So we need to remember, always, before we republish materials from a genealogical website — or, in fact, from any website — check the terms of use."