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Subscription site Ancestry.com has added
the 1930 Mexico National Census (El Quinto Censo General de Población y Vivienda
1930, México) and made the records free to search in celebration of Mexican Independence
Day Sept. 16.

With nearly 13 million records, this census counted an estimated 90 percent of the
population. Note that citizens from the Federal District, which includes Mexico City,
aren’t named.

In its announcement, Ancestry.com calls this the most comprehensive historical Mexican
census available online. (FamilySearch.org, the source of Ancestry.com’s index and
images, also
has the 1930 Mexico census records available in its free historical records search.)

Nearly 30 million Americans—about 10 percent of the US population—can trace their
families to Mexico. Other Ancestry.com collections they can use to research their
roots are border crossings from Mexico to the United States (1895-1957) and parish
records. The records are gathered in a Mexico
collection landing page. (The 1930 Mexican census is free to search, but not all
the other records in the collection are free.)

If you’re researching ancestors in Mexico, check out these resources from Family
Tree Magazine:

• Spanish Genealogy
  Glossary (free article)

• Hispanic
  genealogy organizations (free article)

• Mexican
  Heritage Research Guide digital download from ShopFamilyTree.com 

• Finding
  Your Mexican Ancestors: A Beginners Guide book by George R. Ryskamp and Peggy
  Hill Ryskamp, also available in ShopFamilyTree.com