New Mexico Archives and Libraries

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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

<img src="/learn/wiki/en/images/9/91/Bancroft_Library.jpg" _fck_mw_filename="Bancroft Library.jpg" _fck_mw_location="right" _fck_mw_width="250" alt="Bancroft Library.jpg" class="fck_mw_right" style="width: 250;" /><a _fcknotitle="true" href="Bancroft Library">Bancroft Library</a>
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Telephone: 510-642-6481 Reference desk
Fax: 510-642-7589
Website: <a href="http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info/">http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info/</a>

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.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.

<a _fcknotitle="true" href="Family History Library">Family History Library</a><img src="/learn/wiki/en/images/e/e2/Family_History_Library.jpg" _fck_mw_filename="Family History Library.jpg" _fck_mw_location="right" _fck_mw_width="250" alt="Family History Library.jpg" class="fck_mw_right" style="width: 250;" />
35 N. West Temple St.
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
Telephone: 801-240-6996 and 801-240-6996
Internet: <a href="https://familysearch.org/">https://FamilySearch.org</a>

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.

<img src="/learn/wiki/en/images/b/b6/NARA_Denver.jpg" _fck_mw_filename="NARA Denver.jpg" _fck_mw_location="right" _fck_mw_width="250" alt="NARA Denver.jpg" class="fck_mw_right" style="width: 250;" /><a href="National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (Denver)">National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (Denver)</a>
17101 Huron Street
Broomfield, CO 80023
Telephone: 303-604-4740
Fax: 303-407-5707
Internet: <a href="http://www.archives.gov/denver/">National Archives at Denver</a>

Note that all the old federal court records for New Mexico are at the National Archives Rocky Mountain Region, not in Texas

<a _fcknotitle="true" href="National Hispanic Cultural Center">National Hispanic Cultural Center</a><img src="/learn/wiki/en/images/2/2d/NationalHispanicCulturalCenter.jpg" _fck_mw_filename="NationalHispanicCulturalCenter.jpg" _fck_mw_location="right" _fck_mw_width="250" alt="NationalHispanicCulturalCenter.jpg" class="fck_mw_right" style="width: 250;" />
1701 4th Street SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Telephone: 505-246-2261 or 505-724-4771
Fax: 505-246-2613
Internet: <a href="http://www.nhccnm.org/">National Hispanic Cultural Center</a>

The archives have photographs, maps, manuscripts, and genealogies.Archives in National Hispanic Cultural Center (accessed 20 January 2015). The library contains 12,500 book titles about the history and culture of the Hispano world from the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, Central America, Latin America to Spain, and Portugal.Research Library in National Hispanic Cultural Center (accessed 20 January 2015).
Genealogy resources include 2000 films of Spanish colonial, Mexican, and American territorial history, Archdiocese of Santa Fe (and searlier Durango) records 1640-1955, Ayuntamiento de Hidalgo de Parral Chihuahua collection, U.S. federal censuses for New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado, a list of over 50 Hispanic genealogy and heraldry Internet sites, Hispanic genealogical publications, historic maps of counties, towns, and land grants, and archival finding guides.Genealogy Resources in National Hispanic Cultural Center (accessed 21 January 2015).

State

<a _fcknotitle="true" href="New Mexico State Records Center and Archives">New Mexico State Records Center and Archives</a>
1205 Camino Carlos Rey
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Telephone: 505-476-7948
Fax: 505-476-7909
Email: <a href="mailto:archives@state.nm.us">archives@state.nm.us</a>

New Mexico's best genealogy repository because of their original territorial, state, and county records.Dollarhide and Bremer, 79.

<a _fcknotitle="true" href="New Mexico State Library">New Mexico State Library</a>
1209 Camino Carlos Rey
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Telephone: 505-476-9700
Internet: <a href="http://www.nmstatelibrary.org/">http://www.nmstatelibrary.org/</a>

Largest book collection in New Mexico including government documents, maps, periodicals, biographies, and genealogies.

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.

<a _fcknotitle="true" href="New Mexico State University Library Rio Grande Historical Collections">New Mexico State University Library Rio Grande Historical Collections</a>
4th Floor Branson Library
1305 Frenger Mall
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8006
Telephone: 575-646-3839 or 575-646-2932
E-mail: <a href="http://liblc.nmsu.edu/archives-questions-or-comments/#">E-mail us</a>
Internet: <a href="http://lib.nmsu.edu/depts/archives/rghc.shtml">Rio Grande Historical Collections (RGHC)</a>

Early colonial Spanish records starting in 1598 for families along the Camino Real (Spanish mission road) from the Sangre de Christo Mountains of Colorado down to Mexico City.

<a _fcknotitle="true" href="Fray Angélico Chávez History Library">Fray Angélico Chávez History Library</a>
120 Washington Avenue
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Telephone: 505-476-7948 or 505-819-3563
Fax: 505-476-5104
E-mail: <a href="mailto:historylibrary@state.nm.us">historylibrary@state.nm.us</a>
Internet: <a href="http://www.palaceofthegovernors.org/library.html">Fray Angélico Chávez History Library</a>

Exhibits and archives at the Palace of the Governors for the Spanish colonial (1540-1821), Mexican (1821-1846), U.S. Territorial (1846-1912) and statehood (1912-present) periods of history. Archive topics include NM celebrities, Santa Fe Trail, American Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I, Spain, Mexico, Central America and the American Southwest.Collections in Palace of the Governors (accessed 20 January 2015).

Regional

Albuquerque Bernalillo County Library

●<a href="Albuquerque Bernalillo County Library Genealogy Center">Genealogy Center</a>
   501 Copper Ave NW
   Albuquerque, NM 87102
   Telephone: 505-768-5131
   E-mail: <a href="mailto:librarygenealogy@cabq.gov">librarygenealogy@cabq.gov</a>
   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.

●<a href="Special Collections Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Library">Special Collections</a> (Local History)
   423 Central NE
   Albuquerque, NM 87102
   Telephone: 505-848-1376
   Internet: <a href="http://library.cabq.gov/specialcollections">http://library.cabq.gov/specialcollections</a>
Research collections on Albuquerque history and New Mexico history and culture. In-house use only.Overview - Special Collections in Albuquerque Bernalillo County Library (accessed 20 January 2014).

Carlsbad Public Library

Strong genealogy collection acquired thanks to "snowbird" family history hobbyists bringing their genealogies from all over the United States.

<img src="/learn/wiki/en/images/a/a4/Zimmerman_Library%2C_UNM%2C_Albuquerque_NM.jpg" _fck_mw_filename="Zimmerman Library, UNM, Albuquerque NM.jpg" _fck_mw_location="right" _fck_mw_width="250" _fck_mw_type="border" alt="Zimmerman Library, UNM, Albuquerque NM.jpg" class="fck_mw_border fck_mw_right" style="width: 250;" /><a href="Center for Southwest Research (UNM)">Center for Southwest Research (UNM)</a>
Zimmerman Library 1st Floor, West Wing
University of New Mexico
800 Yale Blvd NEZimmerman Library in Google Maps (accessed 17 January 2015).
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Telephone:  505-277-6451
E-mail:Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections in University of New Mexico University Libraries (accessed 19 January 2014).  <a href="mailto:cswrref@unm.edu">cswrref@unm.edu</a>
Internet: <a href="http://elibrary.unm.edu/cswr/index.php">Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections</a>

Large manuscript collection in Spanish, including early Mexican records. Also, censuses, and early Anglo sources.

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/

Portales Public Library

A nice library of genealogies, periodicals, and family folders for New Mexico and out-of-state locations such as Texas, Tennessee, and Arkansas.

<a _fcknotitle="true" href="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe">Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe</a>
4000 Saint Joseph's Place NW
Albuquerque, NM 87120-1714
Telephone: 505-831-8100
E-mail: <a href="http://www.archdiocesesantafe.org/contact/?c=683bf140-e76b-11df-9492-0800200c9a66">Contact us</a>
Internet: <a href="http://www.archdiocesesantafe.org/index.html">Archdiocese of Santa Fe</a>

Created in 1850, this once included Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico, but has been sub-divided and is now limited to only part of northern New Mexico.About the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in Archdiocese of Santa Fe (accessed 20 January 2014).

Southeast New Mexico Historical Society Library

A good regional collection of manuscripts, histories, journals, and indexes of the earliest pioneers, cattlemen, range wars, and miners.

Spanish History Museum Library

This is the best surname folder collection of Hispanic families in the United States. Their Spanish family heraldry collection is outstanding, and they have a good general collection of Hispanic background material.

Online Records

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.


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