Resources for National Hispanic Heritage Month

Join the National Genealogical Society (NGS) in the celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month (15 September–15 October) honoring the "histories, cultures, and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America."

Below are resources that may be helpful to anyone researching Hispanic/Latino family histories.

• Hispanic Family History Resources page on the FamilySearch Wiki

• Documentary Relations of the Southwest from the University of Arizona Institutional Repository

• Early California Population Project by the Huntington Library

• Research Resources from the New Mexico Genealogical Society

• Mission 2000: Spanish Mission Records by the National Park Service

• Texas Colonial Period Subject Guide by the Briscoe Center for American History

• Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar by Pascual Madoz

• Guia de los Archivos de la Iglesia de España by the Diocesan Archive of Barcelona for the Association of Church Archivists in Spain with the collaboration of the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports

• Portal de Archivos Españoles (PARES) / Spanish Archives Portal

• Diccionario geográfico, histórico y biográfico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos by Antonio García Cubas

• Guadalajara Dispensas includes names from the archives of the Catholic Diocese of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

• Valladolid Dispensas with indexes to the FamilySearch microfilms related to the "Antiguo Obispado Catolico de Michoacan"

• Mexican Genealogy Resources by Moises Garza

• Resources and Links from the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami, Fl., Inc.

• Great New Mexico Pedigree Database from the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico