The following genealogical resources are available in the Marjorie Day Genealogy Room. These resources do not circulate. For information, please call the reference desk at:
575-528-4005 or e-mail: libreference@las-cruces.org (e-mails are preferred)

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| Instructional Books and Guides to Sources | Books |
| Marriage Records | Birth Records | Baptisms |
| Death Records | Cemetery Records |
| Census Records and Census Substitutes |
| New Mexico County Records | Family Surnames |
| Newspapers on Microfilm | Journals and Magazines

Databases

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        Instructional Books and Guides to Sources

• A Beginner's Guide to Hispanic Genealogy.
  Flores, Norma P. and Patsy Ludwig
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• A Student's Guide to Mexican-American Genealogy.
  Ryskamp, George R. and Peggy Ryskamp
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• Mexican and Spanish Family Research.
  Konrad, J.
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• New Mexico Newspapers.
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• New Mexico State Library Newspaper Holdings, 1990.
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• Spanish & Mexican Records of the American Southwest.
  Beers, Henry Putney
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• Tracing Your Hispanic Heritage.
  Ryskamp, George
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• Genealogical Resources in New Mexico.
  Daniel, Karen Stein
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• Handy Genealogical Guide to New Mexico.
  Hawley Spiros, Joyce V.
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• Naturalization Records by New Mexico Courts.
  Daniel, Karen Stein and Elizabeth Louise Albright
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• New Mexico Genealogist - Comprehensive Index, vols. 1-38, 1962-1999.
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• A Guide to New Mexico Genealogical Study.
  Espinoza, Gilbert
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• Genealogical Resources in New Mexico.
  Esterly, Robert E.
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• Newspapers, Indexes & Historical Documents on Microfilm, 1988.
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    Books
• As We Remembered It
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• The Spanish Recolonization of New Mexico: An account of the families recruited at Mexico City in 1693.
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• Family Connections in New Mexico.
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• Roundup on the Pecos.
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• Genealogy of Selected Hispanic Families in New Mexico and Southern Colorado, 1538-1990.
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• Those in Southern New Mexico.
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• It Tolled for New Mexico: New Mexicans Captured by the Japanese.
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• Post Offices of New Mexico.
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• The Centennial History of the Church of the Good Shepherd.
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• Spain's New Mexico Patriots in its 1779-1783 War with England.
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• Spanish Enlistment Papers of New Mexico, 1732-1820.
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• Descendants of New Mexico: Early Spanish Settlers.
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• New Mexico's Contributions to the American Revolutionary Cause, 1779-1785.
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• New Mexico State University, Rosters of Students from 1890 to 1928.
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• New Mexico Mining Fatalities and Accidents.
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• El Cerrito, NM: 8 Generations in a Spanish Village.
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• New Mexico Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary.
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• The Spanish Archives of NM.
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• Vital Records of Las Cruces, NM taken from the Las Cruces Sun-News, 1980-.
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• Life on the Prairies: Settling the Llano Estacado.
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Marriage Records

• Luna County: Applications for Marriage License 1909-1912.
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• Marriage Records of Dona Ana County.
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• Register of Marriages Celebrated in County of Grant, 1868-1872.
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• Matrimonios: San Miguel del Socorro, San Ignacio y San Cristobal, San Marcial, Our Lady of Sorrows of La Jolla.
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• New Mexico Marriages, Church of San Antonio de Sandia, 1771-1864.
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• New Mexico Marriages, Santa Fe, St. Francis Parish & Military Chapel of Our Lady of Light (La Castrense) 1728-1857.
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• New Mexico Marriages, Church of Santo Thomas de Abiquiu, 1759-1826.
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• New Mexico Marriages, Church in San Juan Pueblo, 1726-1776, 1831-1855 and Church in Santa Clara Pueblo, 1726-1832.
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• New Mexico Marriages, Churches of Immaculate Conception of Tome and Our Lady of Belen.
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• New Mexico Marriages, San Miguel del Bado (sic) Church, 1829-1878.
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• New Mexico Marriages, Union County.
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• Miscellaneous General Info: Raton Marriage Records.
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• New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations from the Archivos Historicos del Arzobispado de Durango 1760-1799.
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• New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations from the Archivos Historicos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1800-1893.
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• New Mexico Marriages and Baptisms, San Augustin de la Isleta Church, marriages: 1726-1846; baptisms, 1730-1776, 1829-1842.
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• Sierra County New Mexico Marriage Records.
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• Parish Records, Silver City.
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Birth Records
• Birth records on microfilm:
  Dona Ana County, 1901-1910 and 1941-early 1950s, other counties, 1940s.

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Baptism Records

• Albuquerque Baptisms, 1706-1850.
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• NM Baptisms, Church of San Felipe de Neri in Albuquerque.
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• NM Baptisms, San Miguel del Bado (sic) Church.
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• Bautismos: Nuestra Senora de Belen Church.
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• NM Baptisms, Church of Our Lady of Belen 1810-1851.
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• NM Baptisms, Nuestra Senora de la Imaculada Concepcion de Tome.
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• NM Baptisms of Santa Fe: Parroquia de San Francisco de Asis.
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• NM Baptisms, San Miguel de Socorro Church, 1821-1853.
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• NM Baptisms, Church of Santo Tomas de Abiquiu.
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• NM Baptisms, Santa Cruz de la Canada Church.
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• NM Marriages & Baptisms, San Augustin de la Isleta Church, marriages: 1726-1846, baptisms, 1730-1776, 1829-1842.
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• NM Baptisms, Santa Gertrudis Church of Mora, 1855-1860.
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• Parish Records, Silver City.
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Death Records

• Death Records of Mohoney Mortuary: Deming, Luna County, 1894-1907.
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• Funeral Records: Graham Mortuary, 1912-1931.
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• Death Records for Southern New Mexico taken from the El Paso (Texas) Times.
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• Register of Deaths, Dona Ana County, 1909-1919.
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• Newspaper Obituaries from the Las Cruces Sun-News, 1980-present.
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• Miscellaneous Genealogical Information: Death Records Silver City, 1900-1990
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• Death Certificates on microfilm, most NM counties, 1908-1940s.
• NewsBank-Access America's Obituaries, the largest and most comprehensive database of obituaries available. To log in from home, click here.

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Cemetery Records

• New Mexico Cemeteries.
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• New Mexico Cemeteries.
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• Cemeteries of De Baca County.
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• Cemeteries of Dona Ana County.
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• San Jose Cemetery, Las Cruces.
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• San Jose Cemetery, Las Cruces.
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• Masonic Cemetery, Las Cruces, 1865-1985.
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• San Albion Cemetery, Mesilla (through 2002).
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• Church of the Immaculate Conception, Albuquerque. Burials in Santa Barbara Cemetery, 1876-1924.
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• Community Cemeteries, Sierra County.
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• Sierra County, Cemetery Records.
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• Cemetery at 'Old' Berino.
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• And They Laid Them to Rest: Old Seven Rivers Cemetery, Eddy County.
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• Parish Records, Silver City.
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• Directory of Silver City Memory Lane Cemetery, 1871-1988.
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• Frontier Cemetery Records of Southern New Mexico.
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• Miscellaneous General Info: New Mexico Cemetery Records Other Than Dona Ana County.
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• Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Missionary Ridge Cemetery-Mesquite.
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• Tombstones: Fairview & IOOF cemeteries founded 1884.
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• Hot Springs Cemetery: Truth or Consequences, Sierra County, NM.
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• Vista Memory Gardens Cemetery: Truth or Consequences, Sierra County, NM.
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Census Records and Census Substitutes

• 1750-1830, Spanish and Mexican Censuses of New Mexico.
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• Spanish and Mexican Colonial Censuses 1790, 1823, 1845.
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• NM Census of 1833 and 1845: Socorro and surrounding communities of the Rio Abajo.
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• 1850 New Mexico Territorial Census.
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• 1851 Census of La Mesilla
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• Census of 1821, New Mexico Province, Santa Fe Parish.
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• 1910 Territorial Census for the Territory of New Mexico: every name index of Chaves County.
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• 1850 Census Index, New Mexico.
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• 1860 Census Index, New Mexico.
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• 1870 Census Index, New Mexico.
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• La Junta Precinct #11 and the area surrounding Fort Union: Mora and San Miguel counties 1860, 1870 and 1880 Federal Census.
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• NM 1890 Special Census of Veterans, authors and paleographers.
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• 1890 New Mexico Tax Assessments: A Territorial Census Substitute.
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• Microfilm:
• 1850 Valencia county
  
• 1860 Arizona
• 1860 Bernalillo, Dona Ana, Rio Arriba counties
• 1870 Bernalillo, Colfax, Dona Ana, Grant counties
• 1880 Bernalillo, Colfax, Dona Ana, Grant, Lincoln counties
• 1885 Bernalillo, Colfax, Dona Ana, Grant counties
• 1890 Widows and orphans, Military
• 1900 Colfax (partial), Dona Ana, Eddy, Grant, Guadalupe counties
• 1910 Curry, Dona Ana, Eddy, Guadalupe counties
• 1920 Colfax, Curry, Lea, Dona Ana counties
• 1930 Bernalillo, Catron, Chavez, Colfax, Curry, DeBaca, Dona Ana, Eddy, Grant, Guadalupe, Harding, Hidalgo, Lea, Lincoln, Luna, McKinley, Mora, Otero, Quay, Rio Arriba, Roosevelt, Sandoval, San Juan, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Taos, Union, Torrance, Valencia counties

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New Mexico County Records

• CHAVEZ : NM, Chaves County, Index to Deeds, Releases, etc.
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• DE BACA : A Genealogical Index to Early DeBaca County, NM deeds, 1917-1929.
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• DONA ANA :Directory and Maps of the Masonic Cemetery, 1876-1979, also birth and death notices, obituaries and news items copied from The Boarder 1871-1872; The Southwest Sentinel 1883-1885.
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• DONA ANA :Ft. Selden Troop List.
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• DONA ANA :History of the Hatch Valley.
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• DONA ANA :Las Cruces & Vicinity City Directories- 1948, 1951, 1956, 1958-59, 1960, 1962, 1964-68, 1970-1996, 1998-2007.
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• EDDY :Eddy County to 1981.
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• GUADALUPE :A Genealogical Index of Early Guadalupe County, NM deeds 1891-1916.
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• LEA :A Genealogical Index of Early Lea County, NM deeds 1900-1917.
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• LEA :Then and Now: Lea County Families.
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• LINCOLN :History of Lincoln County Post Offices.
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• LUNA :History of Luna County: Indians, Homesteaders, Railroaders, Prospectors, Miners...
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• OTERO :Otero County Pioneer Family Histories, v.2.
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• SANTA FE :Lamy's Legions: Individual histories of secular clergy serving from 1850-1912.
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• SIERRA :History of Sierra County.
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• TAOS :Taos County; material published in NM genealogist 1962-1988.
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• TORRANCE :A Genealogical Index of Early Torrance County, NM deeds 1903-1920.
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Family Surnames

• ALARID & MOYA : Santa Fe Shadows Whisper: A History of the Alarid and Moya Families.
  Alarid, Waldo
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• ALTMAN, GRAHAM, LEE, MCNEWS :The Pioneers of 1885 in NM who refused to be subdued: the Altmans, Grahams, Lees and McNews.
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• GECK : An Autobiography of Louis William Geck.
  Geck, Louis William
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• GODOI : The Family of Lucero de Godoi, Early Records.
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• HOOKER & SHELLEY : Pioneer Families of Grant County.
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• New Mexico DAR Lineage Book.
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• New Mexico Roots: 1678-1869.
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• Origins of New Mexico Families: A genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period.
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• TELLEZ : Tellez: History and Genealogy.
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Newspapers on Microfilm

• Albuquerque Morning Democrat
  February 1882-October 1903
• El Democrata
  1878
• Dona Ana County Republican
  1900-1901
• Las Cruces Bulletin
  1984-2006
• Las Cruces Daily News
  January 1934-December 1938
• Las Cruces Sun-News
  October 1937-present
• Mesilla News
  February 1874-February 1884
• Mesilla Valley Independent
  July 1877-July 1879
• Mesilla Valley Democrat
  August 1890-December 1890
• Rio Grande Republican
  May 1881-March 1923
• Rio Grande Farmer
  March 1921-December 1923
• Thirty-Four
  December 1878-June 1880
  

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Journals and Magazines

• Everton Genealogical Helper
  2000-present
• Heritage Quest
  1996-2005
• Journal of the A.H.S. of Germans from Russia
  1986-1990
• La Herencia
  1996-2006
• National Genealogical Society News Magazines
  1998-2003
• National Genealogical Socitety Quarterly
  1982
• New England Ancestors
  2002, 2007
• New England Historical Society
  1999
• New England Historical and Genealogical Register
  2007
• Pecos Trails
  1981-1992
• Rio Grande Researches
  1992-2004
• Ohio Genealogical Society
  2002