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==== The Family History Library (FHL) ==== | ==== The Family History Library (FHL) ==== | ||
The Family History Library has an excellent collection of New Mexico city directories on microfilm up through 1935. The cities of Albuquerque, Roswell, and Santa Fe are well represented. The Library also has printed directories for some select New Mexico cities that | The Family History Library has an excellent collection of New Mexico city directories on microfilm up through 1935. The cities of Albuquerque, Roswell, and Santa Fe are well represented. The Library also has printed directories for some select New Mexico cities that range from the 1950s to the 1990s. | ||
To find out what records are available at the Library, do a "Place-names" seach in the [https://familysearch.org/#form=catalog Family History Library Catalog]. Search for: | To find out what records are available at the Library, do a "Place-names" seach in the [https://familysearch.org/#form=catalog Family History Library Catalog]. Search for: | ||
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Record Synopsis[edit | edit source]
A directory is defined as a “book containing names, addresses, and occupations of inhabitants.” It may also be “any list or compilation, usually in book or pamphlet form, of persons, professional organizations, firms or corporations.”[1] Several types of directories have been published in the United States over the last two hundred years including: city directories, telephone directories, county and regional business directories, professional, organizational, and religious directories, post office directories, and street directories. Directories have tremendous value to genealogists as both an original record and as a reference aid.
The sections below provide information about New Mexico directories. For further information about directories in general, see United States Directories.
City Directories[edit | edit source]
Typically, city directories are published on a local level, hence the name "city" directory. There are no statewide “city” directories for New Mexico. To find local New Mexico city directories, check the appropriate New Mexico city Wiki page. Researchers may also find the following resources helpful:
Online Resources[edit | edit source]
- Ancestry.com ($) has New Mexico directories available online in their U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 collection. The following cities are currently included: Albuquerque, Artesia, Carlsbad, Gallup, Hobbs, Roswell, and Santa Fe.
- US City Directories identifies printed, microfilmed, and online directories and their repositories.
The Family History Library (FHL)[edit | edit source]
The Family History Library has an excellent collection of New Mexico city directories on microfilm up through 1935. The cities of Albuquerque, Roswell, and Santa Fe are well represented. The Library also has printed directories for some select New Mexico cities that range from the 1950s to the 1990s.
To find out what records are available at the Library, do a "Place-names" seach in the Family History Library Catalog. Search for:
- New Mexico - Directories
- New Mexico, [County] - Directories
- New Mexico, [County], [City] - Directories
Libraries, Archives and Societies[edit | edit source]
"Most libraries, historical societies, and archives at the state level have fairly extensive collections of in-state directories and may also have directories from major out-of-state cities."[2] The New Mexico History Museum's Fray Angelico Chavez History Library has a good collection of city directories.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Henry Campbell Black, Black’s Law Dictionary: Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American and English Jurisprudence, Ancient and Modern, 5th ed. (St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co., 1979), 415, “directory.”
- ↑ Remington, Gordon L., "Directories," in Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, editors, The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy, 3rd ed. (Provo, Utah: Ancestry, 2006), chap. 8, p. 327.
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