Spanish-Language Records
Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Spain. Fluent reading of historical and modern Spanish civil and parish documentation.
ERIC ELSBERRY ยท GENEALOGISTERIC ELSBERRY ยท GENEALOGISTI am a professional genealogist working directly from original parish, civil, and local records — primarily Spanish-language sources across Mexico, Central America, and Spain, alongside deep experience in Bohemian (Czech) parish registers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Every finding I hand a client traces back to a specific register, a specific page, a specific image.
Two research traditions, one method. Spanish-language records lead my practice; Bohemian parish registers run alongside them with equal depth.
Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Spain. Fluent reading of historical and modern Spanish civil and parish documentation.
Eighteenth and nineteenth century parish registers, household continuity, and the social structure of rural Bohemia.
Supplementary experience across United States records, England, and Scotland, drawn on as projects require.
Conclusions come from original records. Compiled online trees are treated as leads only, never as sources.
The legal, economic, and social world an ancestor lived in often explains what names and dates alone cannot.
Structured documentation paired with a readable narrative that explains both the findings and the reasoning behind them.
I take on new research projects for clients working through US, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Spanish-language family history. If that's you, get in touch — I'd like to hear what you're working on.