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.

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National
Bancroft Library 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.

Family History Library 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.

National Archives at 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 at Denver, not in Fort Worth, Texas.

National Hispanic Cultural Center 1701 4th Street SW Albuquerque, NM 87102 Telephone: 505-246-2261 or 505-724-4771 Fax: 505-246-2613 Internet: National Hispanic Cultural Center


 * The archives have photographs, maps, manuscripts, and genealogies. 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.


 * Genealogy resources include 2000 films of Spanish colonial, Mexican, and American territorial history, Archdiocese of Santa Fe (and earlier Durango) records 1678-1950, 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.

State
New Mexico State Records Center and Archives 1205 Camino Carlos Rey Santa Fe, NM 87507 Telephone: 505-476-7948 Fax: 505-476-7909 Email: [mailto:archives@state.nm.us archives@state.nm.us]


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

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.

New Mexico State University Library Rio Grande Historical Collections 4th Floor Branson Library 1305 Frenger Mall Las Cruces, NM 88003-8006 Telephone: 575-646-3839 or 575-646-2932 E-mail: E-mail us Internet: Rio Grande Historical Collections (RGHC)


 * 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.

New Mexico Genealogical Society P.O. Box 27559 Albuquerque, NM 87125 Internet: http://www.nmgs.org/

Fray Angélico Chávez History Library (aka Museum of New Mexico History Library) 120 Washington Avenue Santa Fe, NM 87501 Telephone: 505-476-7948 or 505-819-3563 Fax: 505-476-5104 E-mail: [mailto:historylibrary@state.nm.us historylibrary@state.nm.us] Internet: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library


 * 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, American Southwest, and American Indians. Manuscripts, papers, newspapers, rare books, maps, and photos—rivals in size the State Records Center and Archives.

Hispanic Genealogical Research Center (HGRC) of New Mexico Lourdes Hall, Archdiocese of Santa Fe Campus 4060 St Joseph Pl. NW Albuquerque, NM 87125 Telephone: 505-833-4197 Internet: http://www.hgrc-nm.org


 * Maintains the Great New Mexico Pedigree Database (GNMPD)  for Hispanic ancestors of New Mexico and their descendants, and makes available a variety of other genealogical and historical research/reference materials.

Historical Society of New Mexico P.O. Box 1912 Santa Fe, NM 87504 Internet: http://www.hsnm.org/


 * They strive to increase knowledge of New Mexico history, and encourage preservation of historic objects and property. They sponsor publications, an annual history conference, a speakers bureau, plaques at historic sites, and a page of Internet links to organizations, museums, and places of historic interest in New Mexico.

Regional
Albuquerque Bernalillo County Library


 * Genealogy Center (Main Library)  501 Copper Ave NW   Albuquerque, NM 87102   Telephone: 505-768-5131   E-mail: [mailto:librarygenealogy@cabq.gov 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. [[Image:Old Main Library, Albuquerque NM.jpg|right|250px|Old Main Library, Albuquerque NM.jpg]]


 * Special Collections (local history collection at the Old Main Library)  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.

Carlsbad New Mexico Family History Center 1203 West Church Street Carlsbad, NM 88220 Telephone: 575-885-1368


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

Center for Southwest Research (UNM) Zimmerman Library 1st Floor, West Wing University of New Mexico 800 Yale Blvd NE Albuquerque, NM 87106 Telephone: 505-277-6451 E-mail:  [mailto:cswrref@unm.edu 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.

Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico 200 North Lea Street Roswell, New Mexico 88201 Telephone: 505-622-8333 Internet: Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico


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

Portales Public Library 218 S Avenue B Portales, NM 88130 Telephone: 575-356-3940 Fax: 575-356-3964 E-mail: [mailto:dburnett@poralesnm.gov dburnett@poralesnm.gov] Internet: Portales Public Library


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

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe Archives 223 Cathedral Place Santa Fe, NM 87505 Telephone: 505-983-3811 E-mail: Contact Us Internet: Office of Historic-Artistic Patrimony and Archives


 * Created in 1850 from part of the Archdiocese of Durango (Mexico), the Archdiocese of Santa Fe once also included Arizona, and Colorado, but is now limited to only part of northern New Mexico. The Archives houses records from 1678-1950 for dozens of parishes in three states.

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. ; . 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). ; . Includes index.
 * Border Regional Archives Group (BRAG), Guide to Archives of El Paso, Ciudad Juárez, and Mesilla Valley (pdf). The Mesilla Valley is an historically important part of southern New Mexico.
 * 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.