How you go about tracing Hispanic ancestry in your family if no one identified with the culture?

Question

I know for a fact I have Hispanic ancestry along with German but everyone identified as 100% German. I am curious about this but don' t know how to find out more. The origins are probably from Mexico and some from Argentina.

A DNA test has already been done. One part Refers Hispanic Minnesota the rest is from Argetina. I have been able to determine Mexican Migrant workers have lived in Minnesota but the timellines don't match as for when they began settlling. There I cannot find any Hispanic sounding Surnames tracing back 3 generations. I would suspect the connection is on Maternal sides on both sides of the family If I go by appearances. How do you/did you trace ancestry back to Spain?

Answer 1

The best way I know for you to learn about your roots is to:

Build your family tree on line.
You can do this for free on:
http://www.tribalpages.com/
Start with yourself, then attach living family members.
Find out all you can about you family from living members, then attach it to your tree.
Now it is time to look for historical records and attach the info to your tree:

It is ALL about census records, and other historical records!

You might get lucky and others may have done some work on your family tree. Google family members names i.e. "Mary Smith" + "family tree"

Free sites:

http://www.searchforancestors.com/

http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=27399&o_lid=27399

http://www.usgenweb.com/

http://www.census.gov/

http://www.rootsweb.com/

http://www.ukgenweb.com/

http://www.archives.gov/

http://www.familysearch.org/

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/

http://www.cyndislist.com/

ECT.
The time may come when you want more information than you can find for free. When this happens you can back up your "tribalpage" tree to your computer on a "GEDCOM" file
you can then go to (I think it is the best subscription site)

http://www.ancestry.com/

Upload your "GEDCOM" file
and start to work!
You might need to make a few adjustments to your tree to make it look better.

Answer 2

Start with what you know and work back. Most likely, you have Spanish ancestors if your ancestry is European.
If you can not trace by paper, go for a DNA test.
On both paper and DNA, I have traced back to Spain and all the rest of Europe.

Answer 3

Just start tracing your family tree checking birth records marriage licenses etc... eventually you will start finding Hispanic names and then you will have to find places of birth or death.

A good place to go for help is: Ancestry.com