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Mexican Catholic Parish Records, Part I: Baptisms, Confirmations & Burials

Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS
Jan 21, 2022
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Baptisms
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Confirmations
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Burials/Deaths
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Finding the Records
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Spanish colonial and Mexican Catholic parish registers are rich in genealogical information. This session will discuss the laws, customs, and significance of these particular Catholic records that essentially “bookend” the life of your ancestors; as well as where to find and how to analyze them.

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Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS
Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS, is an academic librarian, college educator, and tech nerd who has been researching her family history since 1997. She is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at California State University, Fullerton, and also teaches an
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    Fran Ussery
    3 years ago

    Excellent

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    Deborah Barrow
    3 years ago

    I so enjoyed this webinar! While my ancestors were not connected to Mexico during colonial times, the webinar gave me useful clues/methodogies for researching their movements and lives from the early 1900’s when they arrived in Mexico through the time just before they left in 1945.

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    Patricia Diane Godinez
    3 years ago

    Excellent presentation. I have researched in Mexico for decades. It is my favorite kind of Family History because the records are so full of information. Using FamilySearch.org is the best place to see original records and the indexing results in English are helpful to those who are not fluent in Spanish. But you can learn and become an expert!

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    Evelyn Glasgow
    3 years ago

    Great beginner webinar to understand the basics.

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    Brian Boneham
    3 years ago

    Brilliant must watch again webinar on Early Mexican church records.

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    Traci S. Kape Thysell-McPherson
    3 years ago

    Thank you, Colleen for sharing the Wealth of Knowledge you have on the subject of Mexican Records! There was a ton of information! I know I will be watching the webinar again.

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    Susan Lane
    3 years ago

    Well done. Easy for a beginner to understand

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    Augusto Estrada
    3 years ago

    Thank you very much. The seminar was very informative.

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