Taos County, New Mexico Genealogy

United States New Mexico  Taos County

County Courthouse
Taos County Courthouse 105 Albright St #D; Taos, NM 87571-0676 Phone: 505.751.8654 County Clerk has birth, marriage, death, burial and probate records from 1846.

Parent County

 * Up until 1821 - New Spain controlled land that later would become New Mexico and Arizona. Some records of early settlers may have been sent to an archives in Seville, Spain, or to archives in Mexico City.
 * From 1821 until 1846 - Mexico had jurisdiction over the land that later would become New Mexico and Arizona. Some records of this period may have been sent to archives in Mexico City.
 * 22 September 1846 - Taos County was created based on an old Mexican government partido  as one of seven original New Mexico counties under General 's  of laws for the occupied Mexican territory. It formally became a part of the United States when the ended in 1848 with the signing of the.

Boundary Changes

 * 9 January 1852 - All New Mexico counties were redefined. Taos county was extended west to the California border including land in present day Arizona and Nevada.  There is a small chance that a few records from 1846 to 1963 in what is now Arizona may  have been sent to courthouses in their respective New Mexico counties.
 * 29 December 1863 Arizona's three judicial districts were established by the Arizona Territory Organic Act  from the western half of New Mexico Territory. All previous counties were dissolved, and eventually four new counties were created in the new Arizona Territory.

Populated Places
Las Trampas since 1751 [Santo Tomas Apostol del Rio de las Trampas]

Llano de San Juan Nepomuceno since about 1796

Penasco since 1796

Picuries Pueblo since around 750 AD

Questa since 1883

San Fernando de Taos since about 1710

Taos since 1885

Taos Pueblo continuously inhabited for over 1000 years

Neighboring Counties

 * Colfax
 * Conejos County, Colorado
 * Costilla County, Colorado
 * Mora
 * Rio Arriba

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Taos

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Taos New Mexico Family History Center
 * Taos, New Mexico


 * Tres Piedras New Mexico Family History Center
 * Tres Piedras, New Mexico

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.