The Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy (CSHG) is an offshoot of the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America (GSHA), founded in 1987 in Denver. In 1998, a group of Denver membership voted to split from the GSHA and form their own entity, called the National Society of Hispanic of Genealogy.
In 2002, the club was renamed, the Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy (CSHG). CSHG has had several homes in the Denver metropolitan area. Today, they lease space at the Lakewood United Methodist Church, at 1390 Brentwood St., Lakewood, Colorado. We have an extensive genealogy library at this facility where members find support and documented resources for their research. The library is open the first three Saturdays of the month. The purpose is to promote genealogical research, especially for the Hispanic community. CSHG also schedules monthly presentations, and a quarterly magazine for its members.
In visiting the CSHG, you will realize an extensive collection of rare genealogical documents and family histories dating back to 1588 in Nueva Espana. You will find volumes of related items collected over the last thirty-five years by CSHG. The library has church records, U.S. Census records, books, more than 1,000 personal and family Hispanic genealogical records and much more .
CSHG will hold a one-day conference at Lakewood United Methodist Church on July 25, starting at 8:00 a.m. For more information, visit www.southwestgenealogy.org (click on “more”).
The slate of speakers:
Former Secretary of the Interior and Ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar. Salazar will share excerpts from his soon to be releassed book, Borderlands, a fifth-generation Coloradoan. The book will be released on July 28.
Henrietta Martinez Christmas, speech topic “Oñate to America 250″. Martinez Christmas is a former president of CSHG and the current president of the New Mexico Genealogical Society (NMGS); in addition to playing a key role in the NMGS DNA project.
José A. Esquibel, a genealogist, historian, and author whose decades-long work has focused on connecting descendants with their colonial and indigenous past in New Mexico and northeastern Mexico. Esquibel has published over two hundred articles and co-authored four books.
Tom J. Martinez, former president of the GSHA and current managing editor of their quarterly journal, Nuestras Raíces, is developing the patrilineal trees of the Big Y-700 DNA men that connect to Hernán Martín Serrano, the progenitor of several Martín-Serrano (Martínez) families.
James Greenwood is a consultant with Family Search and served as Director of the Family Search Center. Greenwood’s interest in the Hispanic/Latino culture goes back to when he was on a two-year mission with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Mexico City and surrounding villages. Greenwood has a proven track record in jump starting and navigating new researchers in their genealogical research.
