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Discovering Your Native American Heritage Using Genetic Ancestry Testing, by Ripan S. Malhi, Ph.D. and Amy J. Schilling, MS. From the New Mexico Genealogist, December 2005. |
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The Jaquez Family, by Carmalee Gallegos Owen. From the New Mexico Genealogist, March 2005. (the first section of this article is printed here.) |
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Men from whom San Miguel and Guadalupe County's Quotas will be taken for 1917 draft,
by Armando Sandoval. From the Las Vegas Daily Optic, Las Vegas, New Mexico, July 23, 1917. |
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New Mexico's Participation in the Mexican Punitive Expedition: Prelude to World War I
by Karen Stein Daniel. From the New Mexico Genealogist, September, 2005. |
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Union County History, by Jacqueline Chagnon Hill.
Section from Union County Marriages, NMGS Press books C-3, C-0, and C-10. Introduction to series.
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Out
of Africa: Another Look at the Boers,
by Karen Stein Daniel.
Another example
of New Mexico's early rich blending of cultures.
From the New Mexico
Genealogist,
March, 2004. |
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GEDCOM Explained, by Richard Eastman. Computer technology expert Richard Eastman is a frequent presenter at national genealogical conferences. From the Richard Eastman Online Newsletter of 28 Nov 2004.
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Juan Antonio
Benavides, Santa Fe Presidio Soldier and SAR Patriot,
by Leroy Martinez.
From the New Mexico
Genealogist, December, 2003. (Special Military Issue.)
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DAR New Mexico Colonial Patriot Soldiers and Alcalde Mayores, by Virginia Sanchez.
From the New Mexico Genealogist, December, 2003. (Special Military Issue.) |
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American
Battle Monuments Commission, by Virginia
Sanchez.
From the New Mexico Genealogist,
December, 2003. (Special Military Issue.)
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World War
I Deaths: New Mexico - 1918. Compiled
by Howard W. Henry, as found in the Albuquerque Morning
Journal for the year 1918.
From the New Mexico
Genealogist, December, 2003.
(Special Military Issue.) |
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Historiography
for Genealogists -- a Perspective in Understanding.
by Karen Daniel, Certified Genealogist.
Genealogists are also historians, although
historians are not necessarily genealogists. As genealogical
researchers, we pull our clues, facts, and insights from an
enormous variety of disciplines.
From the New Mexico
Genealogist, June, 2003. |
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Zuni
Training School Register of Employees. They
came from across the country to work at Black Rock, New Mexico,
1905-1906. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Zuni Indian Agency, Zuni, New Mexico. Abstracted by Karen Stein Daniel, CGsm.
From the New Mexico Genealogist, March, 2003. |
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Gallup
Diocese 1777-1920. A Guide to the microfilm
of the sacraental records of the Gallup Catholic Diocese.
By Francisco Sisneros.
This is a reprint of an article published
July, 2001 in Herencia, the quarterly journal of
the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico.
*Additional information from California
member Pauline Chavez Bent followed in the December issue.
See Other Towns and Settlements
in the Gallup-Atarque Area. |
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Vital Record
Information
Where to obtain birth, death, marriage, divorce,
cemetery, and Coroner/Justice of the Peace records.
By Karen Stein Daniel, CGSM.
An entire chapter
from Genealogical Resources in New Mexico,
by Karen Stein Daniel, C.G.SM
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The
Genealogical Proof Standard
Five steps established as a guide to serious
researchers for evidence when providing facts in their family
history.
By Karen Stein Daniel, CGsm..
A chapter
from Genealogical Resources in New Mexico,
by Karen Stein Daniel, C.G.SM
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Sapello
New Mexico: A Case Study of New Mexican Changes.
By Salena B. Ashton.
From the New Mexico Genealogist, June
2002. |
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Valencia
County Death Register -- 1907-1909.
Extracted by Lenore Stober.
From the New Mexico Genealogist,
June, September and December, 1988.
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About
the AASF Loose Documents: Some information about
these difficult-to-read records, which are being included
in the latest publications by NMGS Press.
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Glossary
of Physical descriptions of Spanish
Enlistment Soldiers 1770-1816. Compiled by Evelyn
Lujan Baca.
From the New
Mexico Genealogist, March and June, 1998. |
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Mora County Marriages --1875-1890.
Because the law required Catholic priests to send marriage records to the County Clerk, this record includes Catholic marriages as well as civil marriages. Compiled by Martha Gardner.
From the New Mexico Genealogist over five issues from July 1964 to December 1968. |
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Grant
County Marriages --1868-1872.
Found in a Grant County Mining Deed book by
Ann L. Mossman.
From the New
Mexico Genealogist, Mar 1990, pp. 10-12. |
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Grant
County Marriages --1909.
Extracted by Janet A. Curtis, C.G.
From the New Mexico Genealogist,
Sep 1976, pp. 67-69, and Dec 1976, pp. 95-97. |
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Grant
County Marriages --1910.
Extracted by Janet
A. Curtis, C.G.
From the New
Mexico Genealogist, Sep 1976, pp. 67-69, and Dec 1976,
pp. 95-97. |
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Colfax County
Marriages from Justice of the Peace Records, 1889-1893
and 1897-Jan 1901. From the New
Mexico Genealogist, June 1988. |
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Correcting
a 154 year old mistake in the 1845 Colonial Census.
Submitted by Maximo Martinez. From
the New Mexico Genealogist, December 1999. |
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Tres
Piedras Cemetery, Taos County, NM. Submitted
by Dorothy Brylinski. From the New Mexico
Genealogist, March 1998. |
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Rio
Arriba County Marriages 1902-1904. Abstracted
by Ann Mossman. From the New Mexico Genealogist,
March 1996. |
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Mora
County Guardianships 1882-1885. Abstracted
by Ann Mossman. From the New Mexico Genealogist,
March 1997. |
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Valencia
County Probate Journal, 1882-1888. Abstracted
by Priscilla Innerbichler Greene.
From the New Mexico Genealogist,
September 1998 through September 1999. |
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New
Mexico Land Grant Records: An Index to the Files of the
Surveyor General and the Court of Private Land Claims.
Compiled by Patricia Black Esterly. From
the New Mexico Genealogist, December 1997. |
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New
Mexico's Spanish and Mexican Land Grants, by
Robert J. Torrez, New Mexico State Historian, recently retired.
There was more to receiving a land grant than just signing
for it. Former New Mexico State Historian Robert Torrez tells
about the ceremony involved in accepting a land grant, and
provides a glimpse of one of the documents. From
the New Mexico Genealogist, December 1997. |
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¿Quién
Eres?, a poem by Sabine R. Ulibarri, Ph.D.
From the New Mexico Genealogist, September
1999, p. 115. |
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District
Courts in New Mexico Territory, with a chart of New Mexico
Judicial Districts and Their Counties. By Ann
L. Mossman and Al Perrin. From
the New Mexico Genealogist, September 1996, updated. |
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Guardianship
Law in New Mexico, Territorial Period forward. By
Robert Greene. From
the New Mexico Genealogist, March 1997. |
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Luna
County Applications for Marriage Licenses, Book 1
Abstracted by Ann L. Mossman.
From
the New Mexico Genealogist, June, September, and December
1997. |
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Civil
War Commissions New Mexico 1861-1863, as published
in the Albuquerque Daily Citizen of 22 July 1891.Abstracted
by Howard W. Henry. From
the New Mexico Genealogist, September 1997. |
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1890
Census: Special Schedule Doña Ana County, NM,
Part 1. Abstracted by Mary Ruiz Cárdenas.
From the New Mexico Genealogist,
September 1997. |
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Early
Railroad Families of Albuquerque, compiled
by Donald S. Dreesen. From
the New Mexico Genealogist, March 1980.
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Availability
of U.S. Federal Census Population Schedules for New Mexico
Counties, by Ezekiel Gutierrez.
From the New Mexico Genealogist, March 1999.
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Death
Records -- Grand Army of the Republic, 1898, GAR Carleton
Post No. 3, New Mexico, by MaeAllen
Form.
From the New Mexico Genealogist, March 1999.
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The
First Thanksgiving (the Pilgrims Missed it),
by Pauline Chavez Bent. The first recorded
act of thanksgiving by colonizing Europeans on this continent
occurred on the 30th of April, 1598. From
the New Mexico Genealogist, March 1999.
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Josefa
Antonia de Pas Bustillos y Ontiveros, Matriarch of the
Bustos Family of Colonial New Mexico, by José
Antonio Esquibel. |
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From our Cuarto Centennial
Series: Early Settlers in the New World. Published
in the New Mexico Genealogist, March 1998. |
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1890
Poll Tax List, Valencia County NM, by Priscilla Innerbichler
Greene. From the New Mexico Genealogist
September 1998. |
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Genealogists,
Historians and Historical Sources,
by Oakah L. Jones, Ph.D.
An excellent resource article for Southwest
research, particularly in Spanish Colonial New Mexico. Features
a thorough list of sources, finding aids, and bibliographic
materials.
From the New Mexico Genealogist, March 1997.
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Filiaciones
Español: Spanish Enlistment Papers 1770-1816, by
Evelyn Lujan Baca.
A compilation of
transcribed and translated records of soldier enlistments,
not included in earlier published records.
From the New Mexico Genealogist, March and June, 1998.
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Passport
Records 1828-1836.
by Luis G. Padilla y Baca.
Mexican Records from the Port
of Entry at Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory.
From the New Mexico Genealogist,
June 1997. |
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21st
Century Genealogy: Where Will the Records Be?
by Robert E. Esterly, Ph.D.
The Decline of the Census as an Information
Source. From
the New Mexico Genealogist, March 1997.
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The
Civil War in New Mexico
by Oliver James Stevens.
The battles in New Mexico
ended the attempt by the Confederacy to capture the West.
From the New Mexico
Genealogist, September 1997. |
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