MIAMI (AP) — Programs like NBC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” and PBS’ “Faces of America” are helping fuel genealogy trends. For many Hispanics, tracing family trees hasn’t been easy.
Now that’s changing for America’s largest minority group as a wealth of genealogical data, including a landmark 1930 census in Mexico, is going online. Discovering information about one’s great-great grandparents and other relatives could be keystrokes away for many of the nearly 32 million Mexican-Americans.