Frank Dominguez started researching his family history in 1987.  In the summer of 1988 he attended a presentation in Boulder, Colorado given by David Salazar of the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America (GSHA).  He became a charter member of GSHA later that year.  He has amassed many records relating to his ancestral families of the state of Chihuahua and going back to the founding families of the Provincia de Nueva Vizcaya.  Along the way, he started transcribing and indexing various census records for 18th century Nueva Vizcaya.  He has served as Member at Large (MAL) representative, Vice-President and President for GSHA.  He has also served as the Membership Chair for the Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy (CSHG) and as the Nueva Vizcaya advisor to the Olibama Lopez Tushar Hispanic Legacy Research Center (OLTHLRC).  He is an administrator and group expert for the Chihuahua State Genealogy Group-The Original on Facebook.  He has a personal library of over 300 books, the vast majority of them related to the Spanish Borderlands and has written eleven books and over forty articles.

 

Frank is married to Anita Gonzales originally from Capulin, Colorado.  

 

In his professional life, Frank obtained his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1981 and retired from the Hewlett-Packard Company in May 2015 and re-retired from Woodward Inc. in April 2023.