Old Maps Online - Browse and search for old maps with timeline
Virginia Room Resources
Census Records for Latin America and the United States by Platt, L. D. (VREF 929.346 PLAT 1998) - The result of exhaustive research in Hispanic archives, this volume contains a listing of about 4,000 separate censuses, each listed by country and by locality, province, year, and reference locator. While the majority of census listings are for Mexico, all areas in the Americas are covered including areas of the U. S. that once belonged to Mexico.
Census records for Latin America and the Hispanic United States by Lyman D. Platt. (VREF 929.346 PLAT 1998)
Hispanic surnames and family history by Lyman D. Platt. (VREF 929.4 P 1996)
Finding Your Hispanic Roots by Ryskamp, G. R. (VREF 929.346 RYSK 1997) - This book, reportedly the most extensive manual available on the subject, provides detailed information on the records, sources, and reference works used in research. Starting with an examination of basic research principles and techniques, with examples from research experience, it goes on to discuss such areas as language and handwriting, Hispanic surnames, methods of tracing immigrants in U. S. records, and how to conduct research at the LDS Family History Centers. The work proceeds with an examination of the types of records found in all Hispanic countries, indicating where particular record types are found. Many documents are transcribed and translated, helping the reader to learn to read and work with old records.
A Beginner’s Guide to Hispanic Genealogy by Flores, N. and Ludwig, P. (VREF 929.346 FLOR 1993) - This brief guide is intended to provide the beginner with a faster, time-saving search. Information is compiled from Spanish to English for those who do not speak or read Spanish. Chapters include a guide to the LDS Family History Centers; archives and libraries; Spanish phrases and abbreviations; a glossary of Spanish terms found in records; maps of Mexico and Spain.
Ethnic Genealogy: A Research Guide, Edited by Jessie Carney Smith, foreword by Alex Haley (VREF 929.1 ETHN 1983) -
A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story, by Tom Gjelten (VREF 325.73 G 2015) - In the fifty years since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the foreign-born population of the United States has tripled. Significantly, these immigrants are not coming from Europe, as was the case before 1965, but from all corners of the globe. Today non-European immigration is ninety percent of the total immigration to the US. Americans today are vastly more diverse than ever. They look different, speak different languages, practice different religions, eat different foods, and enjoy different cultures. In 1950, Fairfax County, Virginia, was ninety percent white, ten percent African-American, with a little more than one hundred families who were 'other.' Currently the African-American percentage of the population is about the same, but the Anglo white population is less than fifty percent, and there are families of Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and Latin American origin living all over the county. A Nation of Nations follows the lives of a few immigrants to Fairfax County over recent decades as they gradually 'Americanize.' Hailing from Korea, Bolivia, and Libya, these families have stories that illustrate common immigrant themes: friction between minorities, economic competition and entrepreneurship, and racial and cultural stereotyping.
Tracing Your Hispanic Heritage by Ryskamp, G. R (VREF 929.346 RYSK 1984) - This book is designed for use by a variety of researchers, including genealogists who may or may not be fluent in Spanish; advanced researchers interested in particular record types; and local and family historians. Documents and examples are from throughout Latin America, the southwestern U. S., the Caribbean, and Spain. Those from Spain predominate because of the author’s greater familiarity with that country and the fact that the records of that country are universally representative due to its standing as the mother country for Hispanic people.
