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Subject: [Zacatecas] Re: Mexican Research -- Zacatecas
Date: 29 Sep 2002 09:42:18 -0600
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ANNOUNCEMENT:
HISPANIC RESEARCH METHODS CLASS
LOS ANGELES FAMILY HISTORY CENTER
OCTOBER 19, 2002
Instructor: John P. Schmal
On October 19, 2002, at 11:a.m., John Schmal will teach the "Hispanic Research Methods Class" at the Los Angeles Family History Center in Westwood, California. This library is located at 10741 Santa Monica Blvd., on the same grounds at the Mormon Temple, is less than two miles east of the 405 (San Diego Freeway) on Santa Monica Blvd.
This one-and-a-half hour class – which is free to all persons who choose to attend – will show people how to start tracing their family tree in the Southwestern USA or Latin America. The class will discuss the great detail of Mexican and Puerto Rican records. The availability of church and civil records in Mexio and other Latin American countries will be the focus. Many people believe that the records for their towns were destroyed during the wars and revolutions in Mexico. For the most part, however, they are wrong, and more than 154,000 microfilms for Mexico's church and civil records are available through the Family History Library.
There will be more than 20 handouts, including a beginner's outline, border-crossing documents, naturalization and alien registration records, as well as baptism and marriage records from Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Mexico.
The utilization of the IGI (International Genealogical Index), a powerful database containing almost 30 million extractions of births, baptism, and marriages from Mexico, will also be discussed. Sample searches will be done for those attending.
John Schmal has been teaching this class for three years and has a great deal of experience in researching Mexican, Guatemalan, and Puerto Rican records. He is the coauthor of "Mexican-American Genealogical Research: Following the Paper Trail to Mexico" (with Donna S. Morales). This book, consisting of 148 pages and 62 documents, is divided into the following chapters:
1. Following the Paper Trail
2. Finding Vital Records
3. Other Sources of Vital Information
4. Naturalization Records
5. Alien Registration Records
6. Crossing the Border
7. The Best Records in the World
8. Passengers to the Indies
9. The Indians of Mexico
10. In the Service of Their Country
11. Getting Prepared
The 62 documents include obituaries, funeral records, marriage records, Alien Registration, Naturalization documents, border-crossing records, Mexican Church records, Mexican Indian records, and military records. It can be purchased at the CD-Store of Heritage Books website at...
heritagebooks.com/
If you are interested in attending this class, you can contact John Schmal at or 818 734 3509. The phone number of the library is (310) 474-9990 and 310-474-2202.
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