Amaya Garritz & Javier Sanchiz (coordinators). This work contains the papers presented during the 16th 'Reunión Americana de Genealogía' and the 6th 'Congreso Iberoamericano de las Ciencias Genealógica y Heráldica', celebrated in the city of Morelia (Michoacán, México) from October 11th to 15th in 2010. In the frame of the academic activities organized to commemorate the Bicentenary of Mexico’s independence, the traditional topics studied in the genealogy meetings (great Ibero-American descent, family groups in America, heraldic manifestations in Latin America, genetic and genealogy, and documentary sources) were linked to the historical context during the American emancipation in titles such as: geographic origin of the starring families during the independence movement, social alterations in the royal and insurgency factions, rift in the presence of Spain native families, family enterprises in the new political scene, concession of nobility titles as proof of fidelity to the monarchy, and family continuity until today. This research is a testimony of the expansion that heraldic and genealogy studies are gaining in the international academic sphere.