"Unlock Your Family's Past"
Please join us for our 2-day conference in Albuquerque. Enjoy connecting your ancestors with history and appreciate how they may have lived and the events that took place during their lives.
WHEN:
October 17–18 2025, 9:00 AM–4:45 PM each day
WHERE:
October 17–18, 2025
CNM Space Solutions
5600 Eagle Rock Ave NE Albuquerque, NM 87113
CNM Space Solutions
5600 Eagle Rock Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87113
Schedule at a Glance
Friday, October 17, 2025
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Registration and Networking
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Opening Remarks
9:15 AM – 10:30 AM
Debbie Gurtler, AG®, Genealogy or Mythology: You Decide!
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Yvette Cohn Stoor: La Sangre Llama (The Blood Calls)
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch (included with conference registration)
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Debbie Gurtler, AG®, How Did You Find That?
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM
Debbie Gurtler, AG®, What's New on FamilySearch?
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Networking and Wrap-Up. Dinner on your own.
Conference Brochure
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Saturday, October 18, 2025
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Registration and Networking
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Henrietta Martinez Christmas, Juan Bautista de Anza’s Retinue – Troncoso and Pérez Serrano. Soldiers and Settlers: Researching Colonial Military in the Spanish Borderlands
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Genevieve Chavez Mitchell, Weaving Your Family’s Narrative
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch (included with conference registration)
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Daria Celeste Landress, Breakthrough Your Genealogy Brick Walls with X-Match DNA Analysis
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
A. Lee Martinez, Navigating Non-Paternal Events
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
Landress, Christmas, Martinez, & Tórrez, The NMGS DNA Team: Your DNA Questions, Answered!
Conference Reminders
Don't forget to bring the following:
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Business cards with contact information and the surnames you are concentrating on for networking.
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Pedigree Charts or Family Group Sheets for the families you need help with or want to share information on.
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DNA Kit # and password.
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Laptop - if you have your Family Tree on Ancestry. The conference space has Wifi.
65rd Annual NMGS Conference
