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? US territory status: Annexed between 1848 and 1853; became a territory in 1850
? First Federal census: 1850
? Statewide birth and death records begin: 1920
? Statewide marriage records: None – kept at county level
? Counties: 33, established beginning in 1852
? Contact for vital records:
New Mexico Vital Records
Box 26110
Santa Fe, NM 87502
(505) 827-2338
<dohewbs2.health.state.nm.us/vitalrec/vital%20records.htm>
Web sites
? New Mexico Ancestors <rootsweb.com/~nma>
? New Mexico Culturenet History Timeline
<www.nmculturenet.org/heritage/cuartocentenario/timeline.php>
? New Mexico Genealogy
? New Mexico GenWeb Project
? New Mexico Magazine Timeline of Historic Events
<www.nmmagazine.com/NMGUIDE/memories.html>
? New Mexico Newspaper Project
? Online Archive of New Mexico
? USGenWeb Archives: New Mexico
<rootsweb.com/usgenweb/nm/nmfiles.htm>
Books
? 1850 Territorial Census, 4 volumes (NMGS Press)
? 1890 New Mexico Tax Assessments (NMGS Press)
? Census of 1821 — Santa Fe Parish (NMGS Press)
? Genealogical Resources in New Mexico by Karen Stein Daniel (NMGS Press)
? Historical Atlas of New Mexico by Warren A. Beck and Ynez D. Haase (University of Oklahoma Press)
? An Illustrated History of New Mexico by Thomas E. Chavez (University of New Mexico Press)
? The New Mexico Genealogist: The First 40 Years CD (NMGS Press)
? New Mexico Newspapers: A Comprehensive Guide to Bibliographical Entries and Locations by Pearce S. Grove (University of New Mexico Press)
? New Mexico Spanish and Mexican Colonial Censuses, 1790, 1823, 1845 (NMGS Press)
? Northern New Spain: A Research Guide by Thomas C. Barnes (University of Arizona Press)
? Some Marriage Records of the State of New Mexico, 1880-1920 (New Mexico DAR)
? Spanish and Mexican Censuses of New Mexico, 1750-1830 (NMGS Press)
? Spanish and Mexican Land Grants in New Mexico and Colorado by John R. and Christine Van Ness (AG Press)
Organizations and archives
? Albuquerque Special Collections Library
423 Central Ave. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102, (505) 848-1376, <cabq.gov/library/specol.html>
? Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico
4000 St. Joseph Place, Lourdes Hall Rio, Albuquerque, NM 87120, (505) 833-4197, <www.hgrc-nm.org>
? NARA Rocky Mountain Region
Denver Federal Center, Buildings 46 and 48, Denver, CO 80225, (303) 407-5751, <archives.govlrocky-mountain>
? National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 Fourth St. SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102, (505) 246-2261, <www.nhccnm.org>
? New Mexico Genealogical Society
Box 8283, Albuquerque, NM 87198, <www.nmgs.org>
? New Mexico State Records Center and Archives
1205 Camino Carlos Rey, Santa Fe, NM 87507, (505) 476-7908, <www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/archives/ancestors.htm>
? New Mexico State University Branson Library
Frenger Mall and Williams Avenue, Las Cruces, NM 88003, (505) 646-3839, <archives.nmsu.edu>
? University of New Mexico Libraries Center for Southwest Research
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