New Mexico Archives and Libraries

United States New Mexico  Archives and Libraries

These archives, libraries, societies, and museums preserve sources, maintain indexes, and provide services to help genealogists document their ancestors who lived in New Mexico.

Wiki Articles on Major Repositories in New Mexico
ABC Library Genealogy Center· ABC Library Special Collections· Bancroft Library· Carlsbad NM Family History Center· Center for Southwest Research (UNM)· Family History Library· Fray Angélico Chávez History Library· Hispanic Genealogical Research Center (HGRC)· Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico· Historical Society of New Mexico· National Archives at Denver· National Hispanic Cultural Center· New Mexico Genealogical Society· New Mexico State Library· New Mexico State Records Center and Archives· New Mexico State University Library Rio Grande Historical Collections· Portales Public Library· Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe

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Bancroft Library
Bancroft Library University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 Telephone: 510-642-6481 (Reference desk) Fax: 510-642-7589 E-mail: [mailto:bancref@library.berkeley.edu bancref@library.berkeley.edu] Website: The Bancroft Library
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 * The Bancroft Library has 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.

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 * [[Image:Family History Library.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Family History Library in Salt Lake City]]

Family History Library
Family History Library 35 N. West Temple St. Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 Telephone: 801-240-6996 or 1-866-406-1830 E-mail: [mailto:https://familysearch.org/ask/help Ask help (Send a message)] Website: FamilySearch
 * 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.


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National Archives at Denver
National Archives at Denver 17101 Huron Street Broomfield, CO 80023 Telephone: 303-604-4740 Fax: 303-407-5707 Website: National Archives at Denver
 * Holds the old federal court records and federal government agency records for New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. They also have federal censuses 1790-1930, some pre-1900 military service and pension records, bounty land warrants, selected U.S. passenger arrivals and indexes, some naturalization papers and indexes for Colorado, Montana, and New Mexico, and some American Indian censuses for Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.

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

Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
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] Website: 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. Archives 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
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 Website: HGRC Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico
 * Maintains the Great New Mexico Pedigree Database (GNMPD) for Hispanic ancestors of New Mexico and their descendants, and provides a variety of other genealogical and historical research or reference materials.

Historical Society of New Mexico
Historical Society of New Mexico P.O. Box 1912 Santa Fe, NM 87504 Website: Historical Society of New Mexico
 * 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.

New Mexico Genealogical Society
New Mexico Genealogical Society P.O. Box 27559 Albuquerque, NM 87125 Website: The New Mexico Genealogical Society

New Mexico State Library
New Mexico State Library 1209 Camino Carlos Rey Santa Fe, NM 87507 Telephone: 505-476-9700 Website: New Mexico State Library
 * Largest book collection in New Mexico including government documents, maps, periodicals, biographies, and genealogies.

New Mexico Digital CollectionsAccess to digitized manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, maps and Newspapers Databases. and more.

NM State Records Center and Archives
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] Website: State Records Center and Archives
 * New Mexico's best genealogy repository because of their original territorial, state, and county records.

NM State Univ Library Rio Grande Hist Coll
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 Website: 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.

ABC Library Genealogy Center

 * 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   Website: Genealogy Center
 * 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|thumb|thumb|right|280px|ABC Library Special Collections, Albuquerque]]

ABC Library Special Collections

 * Special Collections (local history collection at the Old Main Library)  423 Central NE   Albuquerque, NM 87102   Telephone: 505-848-1376   Website: Special Collections Library
 * Research collections on Albuquerque history and New Mexico history and culture. In-house use only.

Carlsbad New Mexico Family History Center
Carlsbad New Mexico Family History Center 1203 West Church Street Carlsbad, NM 88220 Telephone: 575-885-1368 Website: Carlsbad New Mexico Family History Center
 * 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)
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] Website: 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
Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico 200 North Lea Street Roswell, New Mexico 88201 Telephone: 505-622-8333 Website: 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
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] Website: 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
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe Archives 223 Cathedral Place Santa Fe, NM 87505 Telephone: 505-983-3811 E-mail: Contact Us Website: 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.

For Further Reading

 * 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.