Website: Genealogy Resources: Latin American Resources

General Resources

Hispanic Genealogical Society Of New York
A dynamic online resource built from links to other online resources that our membership has found to be beneficial. We then pool these links and data and make it available to all via our online database. Divided by country.
Portal de Archivos Españoles (PARES)
El Portal de Archivos Españoles (PARES) es la principal plataforma de difusión del Patrimonio Histórico Documental Español, creada y gestionada por la Subdirección General de los Archivos Estatales, del Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte. Contiene fichas descriptivas e imágenes digitalizadas de los fondos documentales conservados en los Archivos Estatales. Sin embargo, en PARES no figura aún toda la documentación de nuestros archivos, debido al enorme volumen de la misma. Los contenidos de PARES van aumentando a medida que se desarrollan los trabajos archivísticos de identificación, descripción y digitalización de los documentos

Discovering your Ancestors in Central America
Video overview of researching family history in Central America. Includes how to find materials in Family Search. Produced by the BYU Family History Center.
Family Search Wiki - Central America
Links to holdings related to Central America and the Caribbean.

Arquivo Nacional do Brasil
National archives of Brazil
Brasil: Nunca Mais
Project developed in the 1980’s by the World Council of Churches and the Archdiocese of São Paulo with three main objectives: to prevent legal documents regarding political crimes from being destroyed at the end of the military dictatorship; to obtain and disseminate information about practices of torture under the dictatorship; and to promote education on human rights.
Brazilian Government Documents
The Latin American Materials Project (LAMP) at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has digitized executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil’s national government between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available for each province to the end of the first Republic in 1930.
Diario de Pernambuco
The Diario de Pernambuco is acknowledged as the oldest newspaper in circulation in Latin America. The issues from 1825-1923 offer insights into early Brazilian commerce, social affairs, politics, family life, slavery, and such. Published in the port of Recife.
Digital Brasil
The National Library of Brazil has digitized 1.8 million documents and counting.
Folha de São Paulo
(São Paulo, Brazil) This online archive contains issues from 1921 to the present.

Archivo General de la Nación
National Archives of Mexico.
Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México
Digital archives of Mexican publications. Supported by Biblioteca Nacional de México and Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México
Las Villas del Norte Genealogy Group
Las Villas del Norte Genealogy Group helps you find your ancestors by providing you with online presentations, resources, and publications so you can leave a legacy for your children, and their children.
Mexican Genealogy
Site dedicated to researching Mexican Genealogy.
Mexican Genealogy Resources by State
Links to Mexican genealogy resources listed by state.
Mexico GenWeb Project
The Mexico GenWeb Project is a part of its parent World GenWeb Project. This site is possible because of a network of volunteers working to provide you with genealogical and historical content for the country of Mexico and each of its states for free.
Nuestros Ranchos
Genealogy of Jalisco, Zacatecas and Aguascalientes

South American Genealogy Research Guide
Tips from familytree magazine on genealogy research in South America
Center for Latin American Migration Studies
Acceda a consultar on-line la base de datos más completa sobre arribos de inmigrantes a la Argentina
Apellidos Italianos
Italian genealogy in Spanish and more.
Familias Argentinas
South America's biggest online genealogy database with 428.132 interconnected people.
Archivo Nacional de Chile
National Archives of Chile
Genealogias de Colombia
An extensive bibliography on readings related to families in Colombia. The site has research on various families for sale.
Instituto Peruano de Investigaciones Genealógicas
To promote the study of genealogical and heraldic sciences, in their historical, statistical, demographic and other academic aspects and scope, thereby contributing to a better understanding of the history of Peru and of their families.
British Settlers in Argentina and Uruguay
An indexed collection of records from Argentina documenting the presence of thousands of British and other English-speaking residents there.

Slave Voyages
The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history.
Slave Societies Digital Archive
Hosted at Vanderbilt University, the SSDA is dedicated to identifying, cataloging, and digitally preserving endangered archival materials documenting the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World. Its largest and oldest collections were generated by the Catholic Church; the baptismal records preserved in Slave Societies are the oldest and most uniform serial data available for the history of Africans in the Atlantic World and offer the most extensive information regarding their ethnic origins.
Contains information related to: Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Florida, Angola, Uruguay, Benin, and Mexico