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Generally, but with some exceptions, the naturalization process produced three key documents: the declaration of intent to become a citizen, the petition for naturalization, and the certificate of naturalization. In the case of non-citizens, alien registration forms were filed, many of which can be as detailed as the naturalization documents. Information from all of these documents has been extracted for this series. The introduction also provides helpful research advice, relevant websites, and statistics on the book's contents. As Mexican immigrants assimilated into American culture, sometimes the genealogical information that linked them to their ancestral homeland became lost. This collection will help many Mexican Americans restore that link.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn P. 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Extracts from these documents yield important details such as date and place of birth, last foreign residence, names of spouse and children, date and place of marriage, and more. Naturalization records also reveal the port of entry and the location of the district court where the documents were filed, which can direct the researcher to additional records of genealogical interest. Generally, but with some exceptions, the naturalization process produced three key documents: the declaration of intent to become a citizen, the petition for naturalization, and the certificate of naturalization. In the case of non-citizens, alien registration forms were filed, many of which can be as detailed as the naturalization documents. Information from all of these documents has been extracted for this series. The introduction also provides helpful research advice, relevant websites, and statistics on the book's contents. As Mexican immigrants assimilated into American culture, sometimes the genealogical information that linked them to their ancestral homeland became lost. This collection will help many Mexican Americans restore that link.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn P. 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Extracts from these documents yield important details such as date and place of birth, last foreign residence, names of spouse and children, date and place of marriage, and more. Naturalization records also reveal the port of entry and the location of the district court where the documents were filed, which can direct the researcher to additional records of genealogical interest. Generally, but with some exceptions, the naturalization process produced three key documents: the declaration of intent to become a citizen, the petition for naturalization, and the certificate of naturalization. In the case of non-citizens, alien registration forms were filed, many of which can be as detailed as the naturalization documents. Information from all of these documents has been extracted for this series. The introduction also provides helpful research advice, relevant websites, and statistics on the book's contents. As Mexican immigrants assimilated into American culture, sometimes the genealogical information that linked them to their ancestral homeland became lost. This collection will help many Mexican Americans restore that link.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn P. 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To explain this, the author discusses Latino population demographics, anti-immigrant legislation and other political influences. In addition, short biographies throughout the book help to familiarize the reader with some of the politicians. The Journey is one of the few works that describes the step-by-step struggle of one cultural group to achieve political representation. In this respect, the book fills a niche that has been neglected for decades. In the preface, Dr. Edward E. Telles, the author of the award-winning, \u003cem\u003eRace in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil\u003c\/em\u003e, states that this book is \"an important educational service\" that \"will be useful in classrooms throughout the United States.\" He adds that, \"no longer can educators in any part of the United States deny or ignore the political importance of Latinos to their students, as this book makes apparent.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn P. 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Starting with an examination of basic research principles and techniques, illustrated with examples from actual Hispanic research experience, it goes on to discuss such important subjects as language and handwriting, Hispanic surnames, methods of tracing Hispanic immigrants in U.S. records, and, most importantly, how to conduct Hispanic genealogical research in LDS Family History Centers, where the researcher has access to the largest body of Hispanic records in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge R. 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The enormous number of census records identified by Dr. Platt in the course of his twenty-five-year investigation will surprise and delight the serious researcher, and none more so than the family historian researching his Hispanic roots.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn every colony of the Spanish Empire at least one major census was taken during the colonial period (1492-1825), although not all of these documents have been preserved. However, the stream of colonial reports on local population submitted to Spain for administrative, fiscal, military, and religious purposes swelled to a flood as the Spanish colonial administrative apparatus was reformed and expanded during the Intendency Period (1763-1825). The amount of material available to genealogists and family historians during this period of time is the largest accumulation of demographic information available for any major region of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeginning in the late 1700s the Council of Indies, the administrative arm of the Crown in Spain, initiated an Empire-wide project of population management through systematic and regular census reports. All persons in a given area, together with information about their age, sex, residence, and marital status, were to be listed, by name, usually within the family grouping, showing an implied or written relationship to the head of the household. The women were almost always recorded in these listings with their maiden names, as is common in all Latin American records.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first series of censuses beginning in 1776, resulted from orders issued to both civil and ecclesiastical officials that each take separate counts. The results were sporadic, but they were fairly extensive, and a large number of them have survived in one archive or another in Latin America or Spain. Many have been microfilmed by the Family History Library of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, and they are identified here by film number. The largest number of censuses identified in this study, however, are those of the 1790 time period.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile the majority of census listings are for Mexico, all countries of Spanish North America, Central America, and South America are covered. The modern states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas are found here under Mexico because they belonged to Mexico during the period in which most of the censuses were taken. Florida and Louisiana, on the other hand, are separate because of their loose ties to Mexico. Notwithstanding the Mexican emphasis, anyone even slightly interested in identifying the early inhabitants of Latin America and the Hispanic United States will find this book absolutely indispensable.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLyman D. 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This book's unique and detailed content fills both needs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith images, charts, transcribed documents and in-depth commentary, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMastering Spanish Handwriting and Documents: 1520-1820\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e addresses fundamental handwriting concepts and challenges relevant to Spanish-language documents. Multiple examples familiarize readers with records written in both Humanistic hand (i\u003cem\u003etálica\u003c\/em\u003e) as well as the older, more difficult Secretary hand (\u003cem\u003ecortesana\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eprocesal\u003c\/em\u003e), in the process giving users a deeper, more accurate, and more fulfilling research experience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond letter forms, the volume's comprehensive textual discussions examine the format and procedures underlying ecclesiastical and legal record types—from a parish marriage record to the Spanish inheritance system—giving readers the context for a document's vocabulary and format. Forty-two transcribed and translated Spanish-language documents form the book's showpiece, adding depth and personality to the text. A \"Notes and Comments\" section at the end of each translation conveys document-specific commentary, ranging from a discussion of a priest's handwriting idiosyncrasies, to weights and measures used in an inventory, to methodologies for determining the most likely correct translation for an obscure legal phrase.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpanning three centuries of Spanish-language documents and with content applicable for researchers at all levels—including native speakers unfamiliar with early handwriting- \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMastering Spanish Handwriting and Documents: 1520-1820\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e uniquely synthesizes the life and career of George R. Ryskamp (1950-2022), whose passion for and expertise in teaching Hispanic genealogical research lies behind every sentence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge R. 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As John O'Donnell-Rosales explains in the Introduction to the new Third Edition of his ground-breaking list of Hispanic Confederate soldiers, many of these individuals (including businessmen and sailors living in cities like New Orleans, St. Louis, Natchez, Biloxi, and Mobile) would have to choose between their cultural aversion to American slavery–which had been outlawed throughout Latin America prior to 1860–and the desire to protect their way of life in the South.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter consulting a number of primary and secondary sources, including numerous rosters of Confederate soldiers, the author has compiled the only comprehensive roster of Hispanic Confederate soldiers in print. The number of soldiers listed here has grown to 6,175 men, a number nearly twice as large as identified in the first edition. 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