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Article #397: Breaking Through #1 Mexico Family Genealogy Research Challenge: Frustration

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What are the leading five challenges that information is not on the Internet
prevent people from finding someone in including free family genealogy web
Mexico or starting their Mexican family sites. If you did an Internet search for
genealogy research? The most common Mexico, you would receive a lot of
challenge that I have come across in my results, but a closer look at the results
research is frustration. People may feel reveals that most of them have to do with
as though there may be no hope in finding New Mexico or Mexico, Missouri. The
the person they are looking for. results you get from these online
Maybe they are frustrated because they searches are almost always about people
don't know or speak the Spanish language. living in the United States and are not
This can be especially upsetting for focused on the Country of Mexico which is
people who are doing their Mexican family where you want to get information.
genealogy and researching to find a Marie Daly, director of the Research
mother or father living in Mexico. Library at the New England Historic
Some clients have told us that their Genealogical Society gave this comment
biggest challenge is they do not speak about family genealogy research on the
Spanish, have never visited Mexico, don't Internet, "I'd say perhaps only 10
know much about the country and have no percent of the genealogical information
idea where to start. Some tell us they out there is on the Web. But when people
have names and some information, but have do genealogy research, they think that's
not had any luck at all finding anybody. 100 percent, and they make a big error
They may be ready to stop their Mexico that way. Not everything is on the Web.
family genealogy research because they And some of the things that are on the
feel overwhelmed, confused or even Web are erroneous." - How to be a
depressed. They are possibly frustrated Self-Sufficient Researcher by Margaret
because they may have spent hours on the Moen
Internet and have come up with nothing. Even though you may spend a lot of time
Let's talk about that for a minute. looking for this information and have
There's a good reason why a person doing visited some of the family genealogy
family genealogy research for someone in research web sites, it may be in the
Mexico has not found any information. wrong direction. So rest your fingers for
Let's start with the Internet. For most a minute if you have already spent an
people, the Internet is an easy way to hour or more looking on the Internet. Why
find people. Let's face it, if you are would I say this? Because most people
trying to find someone in the United have used up their own ideas of where and
States, all you need to do is put in how to search online after an hour. There
their name, city, state, and maybe their is a science to searching online. After
zip code. an hour most people have used up all of
There are many online search engines such their resources and ideas of how to look
as Google, Yahoo, or the Internet White for information. After that a lot of
Pages. If a person has done something people are just spending time surfing the
that got them listed on the Internet such net, bouncing from site to site, looking
as: owning a web site; have published and hoping for some new information.
articles; been in a newspaper; or even People may feel that if they keep
just have a residential listing that is searching, they will find that one family
online, they can easily be found through genealogy research web site that has the
an online search just by plugging their information they are looking for. There
information into a search engine. There is no one magic web site that will give
is a lot of personal information on you a simple answer to locate someone
people living in the United States and living in Mexico. It is just not out
there are several ways to search for them there and this includes free family
and it is very easy to find them--if they genealogy sites.
are living in the United States. If you are frustrated because you have
So naturally, when most people think spent a lot of time looking for someone,
about finding someone in Mexico, whether have tried free family genealogy web
or not they are doing family genealogy sites and nothing you have done has
research, they turn to the Internet. worked, you are finally in the right
However, the problem with trying to find place. In the next few articles, I am
someone in Mexico by using the Internet going to share with you information on
is that very little of the information on what to do and how to do it. So don't
individuals who are living in Mexico is give up.
digitized. Herein lays the problem. The






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