Groundbreaking Book for Genealogists with Hispanic Roots

Groundbreaking Book for Genealogists with Hispanic Roots

English-speaking researchers and historians working with a Spanish-language document face two hurdles—understanding the handwriting and vocabulary, and grasping the record’s institutional, historic, social, and cultural context.  This book’s unique and detailed content fills both needs.  With images, charts, transcribed documents and in-depth commentary, Mastering Spanish Handwriting and Documents: 1520-1820 addresses fundamental handwriting concepts and challenges[…]Read more

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Hispanic Family Histories

Hispanic Family Histories

Most genealogists know—or learn belatedly—that they should be on the lookout for existing accounts of their ancestors, whether published in a printed book or online. While the information in older books about any family must be examined for possible errors and their findings compared against original sources, published family histories frequently save the genealogist much[…]Read more

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