What is Los Bexarenos? Los Bexarenos is an organization dedicated to Hispanic history and ancestral research. The Society promotes public interest in history and genealogy through outreach and educational programs. Members of the society consist of individuals from a variety of occupations and life pursuits (e.g. retirees, housewives, doctors, lawyers, historians, teachers, accountants, and professional genealogists).

Help for begining genealogists. The society assists new members in getting started with genealogical research through beginner's workshops. Beginners also receive assistance from the more experienced members of our society. Other sources of information available for the new genealogists are the monthly meetings and the Society's quarterly register.

Activities of the organization.

• Monthly meetings: Topics of the meetings range from original studies into Hispanic history to genealogy research techniques and sources that can be used to develop family history. Speakers at the meetings are people with a passion for history, professional historians, genealogists, archaelolgists and researchers.

• Los Bexarenos Quarterly Register: The register is an important genealogical source for the members of the Society. The publication contains translations of census, marriages, baptisms, burials, wills and historical articles. Sources from these translations come from and are about Texas localities, northern Mexico, and other areas with large hispanic populations and history.

• Ancestral Research: The main activity of the Society is family ancestral research. Not only the family lineage, but the family history and how our ancestors responded to national forces and events. How it was that we, their descendants, find ourselves in this time and place. How decisions made long ago affected our present lives and in many cases directly account for our existence.