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 sho

This is quite possibly the most useful manual on Hispanic ancestry ever published. Building on the previously published Tracing Your Hispanic Heritage (1984), i

This is the largest and most complete survey of census records available for Latin America and the Hispanic United States. The result of exhaustive research in

“An unprecedented tour de force . . . [A] sweeping historical overview and interpretation of the racial formation and racial history of Mexican Americans.”

This book is considered to be the starting place for anyone having family history ties to New Mexico, and for those interested in the history of New Mexico. Wel