New Mexico Archives and Libraries
United States New Mexico
Archives and Libraries
These archives, libraries, societies, and museums house sources, lists, and indexes, and provide services to help genealogists document their ancestors who lived in New Mexico.
National
National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (Denver)
17101 Huron Street
Broomfield, CO 80023
Telephone: 303-604-4740
Fax: 303-407-5707
Internet: National Archives at Denver
- Note that all the old federal court records for New Mexico are at the National Archives Rocky Mountain Region, not in Texas
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Telephone: 510-642-6481 Reference desk
Fax: 510-642-7589
Website: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info/
- Premier Western Americana, and Latin Americana collections, including Native Americans, Spanish encounter and colonial settlement, exploration of western America, maps and atlases, the Mexican War, westward migration, the Gold Rush, mining, land surveys, religious and Utopian communities, and ethnic communities. This library has more about western North America than any other site. Includes many sources about New Mexico.[1] [2]
35 N. West Temple St.
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
Telephone: 801-240-6996 and 801-240-6996
Internet: https://FamilySearch.org
- Holds 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and Mormon records. Includes a good collection for New Mexico.
State
New Mexico Records Center and Archives
1205 Camino Carlos Rey
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Telephone: 505-476-7948
Fax: 505-476-7909
Email: archives@state.nm.us
- New Mexico's best genealogy repository because of their original territorial, state, and county records.[3]
New Mexico State Library
1209 Camino Carlos Rey
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Telephone: 505-476-9700
Internet: http://www.nmstatelibrary.org/
New Mexico Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 27559
Albuquerque, NM 87125
Internet: http://www.nmgs.org/
Regional
Albuquerque Bernalillo County Library
- Genealogy Center
- 501 Copper Avenue, N.W.
- Albuquerque, NM 87102
- Telephone: 505-768-5131
- Fax: 505-768-5191
- Internet: http://abclibrary.org/genealogy
- Genealogy Center
- Special Collections
- 423 Central NE
- Albuquerque, NM 87102
- Telephone: 505-848-1376
- Internet: http://library.cabq.gov/specialcollections
- Special Collections
Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico
Lourdes Hall, St. Pius X Campus
4060 St Joseph Pl. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87125
Telephone: 505-833-4197
Internet: http://www.hgrc-nm.org
Historical Society of New Mexico
P.O. Box 1912
Santa Fe, NM 87504
Internet: http://www.hsnm.org/
Online Records
Guides
- Henry Putney Beers, Spanish and Mexican Records of the American Southwest: A Bibliographic Guide to Archive and Manuscript Sources (Tuscon, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1979). Digital edition. At various repositories (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 A3bh. An historical account and description of records from the Spanish and Mexican periods of New Mexico history.
- To learn more about the history and record-keeping systems of New Mexico counties, use the 15 inventories of the county archives produced by the Historical Records Survey around 1940. These inventories are available at the Family History Library at www.familysearch.org .
References
- ↑ Collections in The Bancroft Library Internet site (accessed 26 October 2013).
- ↑ William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 19 and 21. At various libraries (WorldCat). FHL Ref Book 973 J54d.
- ↑ William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 79. At various libraries (WorldCat). FHL Ref Book 973 J54d.
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