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.

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.

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/


 * Largest book collection in New Mexico including government documents, maps, periodicals, biographies, and genealogies.

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

Museum of New Mexico History Library 110 Washington Ave PO Box 2087 Santa Fe, NM 87504-2087 Telephone: 505-827-6451


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

Regional
Albuquerque Bernalillo County Library


 * ●Genealogy Center  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.


 * ●Special Collections (Local History)  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.

Center for Southwest Research (UNM)

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/

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.
 * 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.