We work with Mexican Catholic parish registers, civil records, and other archival documents to make Spanish-language records readable, understandable, and meaningful for families and researchers.
Shaped by personal family history research, this project developed through sustained, close work with Mexican religious and civil records. That work evolved into a careful, document-based approach to transcription, translation, and interpretation, an approach now used to help others trace, understand, and document their own Mexican family histories.
A careful, document-based approach to Mexican family history and archival research.
If you’re new to working with historical records, this is a good place to begin.
NEW TO RECORDS
Learn how religious and civil records are structured and how to read them.
RESEARCHING YOUR FAMILY
See examples of records, interpretations, and historically grounded stories.
LOOKING FOR GUIDES AND TOOLS
Explore courses and reference materials for careful work with historical records.
This work began with personal research and grew into an approach designed to help others trace, interpret, and understand Mexican family records with care and context. You can explore the records yourself, or work with us to apply this approach to your own family history.
