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.

National
National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (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 Rocky Mountain Region, not in Texas

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.
 * Nearby Doe Library has a large collection of newspapers on microfilm.

Family History Library 35 N. West Temple St. Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
 * 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.

State
New Mexico 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/

New Mexico Genealogical Society

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

Regional
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/

Albuquerque Public Library

501 Copper Avenue, N.W. Albuquerque, NM 87102 Telephone: 505-768-5100 Fax: 505-768-5191 Internet: http://www.cabq.gov/library/ Albuquerque Public Library

Special Collections Library 423 Central Ave, NE Albuquerque, NM 87102 Telephone: 505-848-1376 Internet: http://library.cabq.gov/specialcollections

A historical account and description of records from the Spanish and Mexican periods is Henry P. Beers, Spanish and Mexican Records of the American Southwest: A Bibliographic Guide to Archive and Manuscript Sources (Tuscon, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1979); Family History Library.

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. These inventories are available at the Family History Library at www.familysearch.org.