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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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/
- Largest book collection in New Mexico including government documents, maps, periodicals, biographies, and genealogies.[3]
New Mexico Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 27559
Albuquerque, NM 87125
Internet: http://www.nmgs.org/
Museum of New Mexico
History Library
110 Washington Ave
PO Box 2087
Santa Fe, NM 87504-2087
Telephone: 505-827-6451
- Manuscripts including colonial Spanish and Mexican papers, newspapers, rare books, maps, American Indians, and photos—rivals in size the State Records Center and Archives.[3]
Regional[edit | edit source]
Albuquerque Bernalillo County Library
- ●Genealogy Center
501 Copper Ave NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Telephone: 505-768-5131
E-mail: librarygenealogy@cabq.gov
Fax: 505-768-5191
Internet: http://abclibrary.org/genealogy
- This facility is devoted to genealogy and Southwestern history, including New Mexico vital records, history, biography, periodicals, and family folders.[3]
- This facility is devoted to genealogy and Southwestern history, including New Mexico vital records, history, biography, periodicals, and family folders.[3]
- ●Special Collections (Local History)
423 Central NE
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Telephone: 505-848-1376
Internet: http://library.cabq.gov/specialcollections
- Research collections on Albuquerque history and New Mexico history and culture. In-house use only.[4]
- Research collections on Albuquerque history and New Mexico history and culture. In-house use only.[4]
Zimmerman Library 1st Floor, West Wing
University of New Mexico
800 Yale Blvd NE[5]
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Telephone:[6] 505-277-6451
E-mail:[6] cswrref@unm.edu
Internet: Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections
- Large manuscript collection in Spanish, including early Mexican records. Also, censuses, and early Anglo sources.[3]
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[edit | edit source]
Links to online databases and indexes that may include vital records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, maps, military records, naturalizations, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records.
Guides[edit | edit source]
- 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.
- New Mexico State Records Center and Archives (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Guide to the Microfilm of the Spanish Archives of New Mexico, 1697-1821 (Santa Fe, New Mexico : New Mexico State Records Center and Archives, 1967). At various repositories (WorldCat); FHL Films 468381-84. Includes index.
- 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. Most of these inventories are cited in the FamilySearch Catalog under Historical Records Survey (New Mexico); United States. Work Projects Administration (New Mexico).
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Dollarhide and Bremer, 79.
- ↑ Overview - Special Collections in Albuquerque Bernalillo County Library (accessed 20 January 2014).
- ↑ Zimmerman Library in Google Maps (accessed 17 January 2015).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections in University of New Mexico University Libraries (accessed 19 January 2014).
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