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Online Resources

• New Mexico Resident Index, 1790 Index ($)
• Polk's Arizona and New Mexico pictorial state gazetteer and business directory : 1912-1913 ($)
• A Complete Business Directory of New Mexico, and Gazetteer of the Territory ... 1882
• Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona Gazetteer and Business Directory 1884-5. Volume 1

History

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.

Resources for New Mexico Directories

Libraries and Archives

The New Mexico History Museum's Fray Angelico Chavez History Library has a good collection of city directories.

Business Directories

• 1882. A Complete Business Directory of New Mexico and Gazetteer of the Territory for 1882. Santa Fe, New Mexico: New Mexican Printing and Publishing Company, 1882. Digital version at Google Books.

• 1883-84. McKenney, L.M. Pacific Coast Directory, for 1883-84. Giving name, business, and address of business and professional men of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, and New Mexico. Together with sketches of the different towns, giving location, population, Etc. San Francisco: L.M. McKenney & Co., 1882. Digital version at Internet Archive.

• 1884-85. Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona Gazetteer and Business Directory 1884-5. Volume 1. R.L. Polk & Co. and A.C. Danser, 1884. Digital version at Google Books.

• 1938. New Mexico State Business Directory, 1938: Including El Paso, Texas Department and Denver, and Western Cities Classification. Denver: Gazetteer Pub. and Printing Co., 1938. FS Library film 1000221.

Directories Online

• 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 FamilySearch Library

The FamilySearch Library has city directories for various years from throughout the state of New Mexico including:

Albuquerque

1940, 1952, 1960, 1965	FS Library Book 978.961/A1 E4h
1905-1935	FS Library Film 1843249- 1843255

Roswell

1956	FS Library Book 978.943/R1 E4hd
1979, 1991	FS Library Book 978.943/R1 E4p

Santa Fe

1940, 1960, 1966, 1968	FS Library Book 978.956/S1 E4h
1928-1935	FS Library Film 2309618

To find directories, consult the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:

NEW MEXICO, [COUNTY] — DIRECTORIES

NEW MEXICO, [COUNTY], [TOWN] — DIRECTORIES