Finding Your Mexican Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide
Finding Your Mexican Ancestors is essential to any researcher looking to trace their heritage across the Rio Grande. In it, authors George and Peggy Ryskamp show how easy Mexican American research can be providing detailed descriptions of parish records, civil records, and other types of records common in Mexico.
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Book details
- Author
- George Ryskamp
- Imprint
- Ancestry.com, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Reference › Genealogy & Heraldry
History › Latin America › Mexico - Topics
- genealogy · Mexican ancestry · family history · parish records · civil records · Mexican American research · heritage
- ISBN-13
- 9781593313074 (Paperback)9781630263355 (Hardcover)
About the author
GEORGE R. RYSKAMP was an associate professor of History at Brigham Young University and a practicing attorney, holding both a J.D. and the Accredited Genealogist credential. His books include Finding Your Mexican Ancestors: A Beginner’s Guide, Finding Your Hispanic Roots and Tracing Your Hispanic Heritage.
Ryskamp was a fellow of the Utah Genealogical Association and a corresponding member of the Academia Real Matritense de Genealogía y Heráldica. He served as director of BYU’s Center for Family History and Genealogy and directed its Immigrant Ancestor Project.
When not writing, Ryskamp taught Latin American and southern European family history at Brigham Young University. His books reflect that same focus on Hispanic and immigrant genealogical research.
Ryskamp lived from 1950 to 2022.