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*Swadesh, Frances Leon. ''20,000 Years of History: A New Mexico Bibliography''. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Sunstone Press, 1973. {{FHL|156394|title-id|disp=FHL book 978.9 A3s}}.
*Swadesh, Frances Leon. ''20,000 Years of History: A New Mexico Bibliography''. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Sunstone Press, 1973. {{FHL|156394|title-id|disp=FHL book 978.9 A3s}}.


The [http://elibrary.unm.edu/ University of New Mexico Library] and the [http://www.museumofnewmexico.org/Museum of New Mexico Library] have good collections of local histories.
The [http://elibrary.unm.edu/ University of New Mexico Library] and the [http://www.museumofnewmexico.org/Museum of New Mexico Library] have good collections of local histories.
 
For information on some of the earliest records for New Mexico, you will want to examine this inventory made by Ralph Emerson Twitchell
 
*Twitchell, Ralph E. ''The Spanish archives of New Mexico: compiled and chronologically arranged with historical, genealogical, geographical, and other annotations, by authority of the state of New Mexico''. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Torch Press, 1914. {{FHL|156365|title|disp=FHL book 978.9 A3t}} in two volumes. You can view digital copies online. [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE91752 Volume 1] and [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE101710 Volume 2].
 
To view the documents mentioned by Twitchell on microfilm, see ''Calendar of the microfilm edition of the Spanish archives of New Mexico, 1621-1821'' Santa Fe, NM: New Mexico Records Center, 1968. {{FHL|156556|title|disp=FHL book 978.9 A3nm}}.
 
Visit the website of the [http://164.64.110.131/webcat/request/DoMenuRequest?SystemName=New+Mexico+State+Archives&UserName=NMA+Public&Password=&UniqueID=0&TemplateProcessID=6000_12203_20096&bCachable=1&MenuName=Public+keyword+search&ControlLoc=T&ControlPer=15 New Mexico State Archives] to help correlate Twitchell's document numbers with the microfilm desired. The microfilms are available through FamilySearch {{FHL|188041|title|disp=FHL film 581463-581478}}.


== State Histories Useful to Genealogists  ==
== State Histories Useful to Genealogists  ==
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