New Mexico Newspapers

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Resources for New Mexico Newspapers[edit | edit source]

Libraries and Archives[edit | edit source]

The New Mexico Records Center and Archives and the New Mexico Museum of History Library have excellent collections of newspapers dating from the 1860s. The FamilySearch Library has newspapers for some towns, including Albuquerque from about 1870 to 1899 and Santa Fe.

Locating Newspapers[edit | edit source]

The following guides can help you locate New Mexico newspapers:

Newspaper Directory[edit | edit source]

The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present is a national directory from the Library of Congress of over 140,000 newspaper titles. The directory provides a list of libraries from around the country that have the newspapers in their collections.

Digital Issues Online[edit | edit source]

Wikipedia has more about this subject: List of online newspaper archives

Obituaries[edit | edit source]

Native American Obituaries[edit | edit source]

The Native American Obituary Project is a compilation of over 500 pages of newspaper clippings of Native American obituaries from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. The project originated with volunteers at the Farmington, New Mexico FamilySearch Center. The obituaries range in date from 1977 to 2001. They were printed in the following newspapers:

The Daily Times (Farmington, New Mexico)
The Winslow Mail (Winslow, Arizona)
Montezuma Valley Sun (Montezuma, Colorado)
Cortez Journal (Cortez, Colorado)
Navajo Times (Window Rock, Navajo Nation, Arizona)
Lake Powell Chronicle (Page, Arizona)

The published volume, which includes a surname index, has been microfilmed and digitized under the title, Native American Obituaries. It is one of countless treasures of the FamilySearch Library, accessible on site, online, or through a local FamilySearch center. The FamilySearch Catalog provides a full description. It can also be accessed through the Family History Books Collection. See related blog article (7 Jun 2011).



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