Las Villas del Norte Genealogy Database

Our genealogy database contains 1,347,509 persons. The bulk of the people in our database are from Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Coahuila and South Texas. It also contains information on people from Zacatecas, Jalisco, Mexico City, and Spain.

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Popular Surnames of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, and Texas

Northeastern Mexico was settled in the late 1500s and by 1750 descendants of these settlers moved north to settle South Texas. Click on any of the following surnames to see the progenitor of the surname in this region and their identified descendants.

Database Updates

This database is updated every six months, next update will be in June 2026.

• December 31, 2025 = Removed over 4,700 duplicates for the following surnames: Trevino, Lopez, Fernandez, and Salazar. Went from 1,352,195 to 1,347,509.
• August 14, 2025 = Merged over 8,000 duplicates for the following surnames: Garza, de la Garza, Trevino and de Trevino.
• June 6, 2025 = Removed over 10,000 duplicates and added over 197,000 people from Cadereyta and Agualegas, N.L. to the database.
• June 13, 2024 = Removed over 15,000 duplicates and added over 41,000 people from Burgos, Tamaulipas to the database.
• December 2, 2023 = Removed over 60,000 duplicates and added over 140,000 people from Monterrey to the database.