Guatemala Family History

So perhaps maybe you already tried searching through the indexed records on Family Search or on Ancestry. If you didn't find your ancestor, don't fear- He or She DOES exist, and you will probably find them. It will just take some time... For Convenience. I have added the link to the collections on the side of my blog. The following screenshots will help you be familiar with the way Family Search runs their collections. The image below is the main Search feature to find historical records. Once you type in an ancestor's information such as Name, date of Birth, and or place of birth, it shows you all the different matches. Sometimes it's overwhelming to see so many ancestors with the same name and place of birth, other times you don't get any matches. You can access all the indexed and non indexed images by browsing the collections. You can choose any country that you want to search. For our sake, let's choose Guatemala. The two main collections of in...

Over a decade ago I heard that you could search ancestry.com for any information about your ancestors. I was excited to finally find some key pieces of information I had been missing. I set up an account and began to search. To my disappointment, I found nothing. I mean literally nothing. No records existed in their database that included Guatemala. A few years ago even Ancestry.com didn't have any records from Central America. At the time, Ancestry.com was mainly composed of European records. I hit a dead end. I was told to make this thing called a "paf" file (Personal Ancestral File) using software that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints had available as a resource to the public.  My PAF file included my parents and grandparents. It had one exact birth date for my grandpa and that was it.  My family tree looked pathetic. It was more like a family twig! So I printed out my family twig and kept it in a box of memories, where it remained for a long lon...