New Mexico Archives and Libraries

United States New Mexico  Archives and Libraries

The following archives, libraries, and societies have collections or services helpful for genealogical research in New Mexico.

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.William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 19 and 21. . .</ref

National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (Denver)
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 records for New Mexico are at the Denver National Archives office, not Texas.

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

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/

New Mexico State Library
1209 Camino Carlos Rey Santa Fe, NM 87507 Telephone: 505-476-9700 Internet: http://www.nmstatelibrary.org/

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.