New Mexico Genealogy – Free New Mexico Genealogy

New Mexico Genealogy. This state page of our website provides direct links to free New Mexico genealogy databases and historical titles and information found on New Mexico Genealogy, whether they exist on our site, or across the web.

New Mexico Cemeteries

• New Mexico Cemetery Records
• New Mexico Tombstone Transcription Project

New Mexico Census Records

• New Mexico Census Records
• New Mexico Census Map

New Mexico Counties

• Socorro County
  • El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
    Early history of El Camino Real through Socorro County and Jornada del Muerto from 1598 to the 1680 Pueblo Revolt.  Includes maps and photos of the trail.
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
  • Mission Churches of Socorro County
    History of early Spanish missions along El Camino Real in the early 1600s to a few more “modern” ones.  Includes early Socorro missions, San Miguel, Santa Rita, Lady of Fatima (Florida)
    • Part 1
    • Part 2

New Mexico Genealogy Websites

United States Genealogy

• New Mexico Genealogy

USGenWeb Project

• NMGenWeb Project

Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Doña Ana, Eddy, Grant, Guadalupe, Harding, Hidalgo, Lea, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Luna, McKinley, Mora, Otero, Quay, Rio Arriba, Roosevelt, San Juan, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Taos, Torrance, Union, Valencia

American History and Genealogy Project

• New Mexico AHGP

Bernalillo,  Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Dona Ana, Eddy, Grant, Guadalupe, Harding, Hidalgo, Lea, Lincoln, Los Alamos,  Luna, McKinley, Mora, Otero,  Quay,  Rio Arriba, Rosevelt, Sandoval, San Juan, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Taos,  Torrance, Union, Valencia

New Mexico Land Records

• U.S., Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1820-1908
  3,907 land management tract books containing official records of the land status and transactions involving surveyed public lands arranged by state and then by township and range. These books indicate who obtained the land, and include a physical description of the tract and where the land is located. The type of transaction is also recorded such as cash entry, credit entry, homesteads, patents (deeds) granted by the Federal Government, and other conveyances of title such as Indian allotments, internal improvement grants (to states), military bounty land warrants, private land claims, railroad grants, school grants, and swamp grants. Additional items of information included in the tract books are as follows: number of acres, date of sale, purchase price, land office, entry number, final Certificate of Purchase number, and notes on relinquishments and conversions.
• Arizona Land Patents online. Index.

New Mexico History

• New Mexico, Her Natural Resources And Attractions
• La Leyenda de La Llorona
  One of New Mexico’s most enduring legends … the spirit ghost of La Llorona … roaming the Rio Grande looking for her children. This version is that common to Socorro and southern New Mexico.  Did the legend spread throughout New Mexico and Mexico along El Camino Real?
• Legend of “the Lady in Blue”
  A story of Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, the
  Blue Nun, who spiritually traveled to minister to the pueblo Indians along El Camino Real and beyond in the 1600s – a mystery to this day.

New Mexico Military Records

• Military Records
• New Mexico Forts
  List of colonial forts, trading posts, named camps, redoubts, reservations, general hospitals, national cemeteries, etc., established or erected in the United States from its earliest settlement to 1902.
• Mexican War Records
• Civil War Records
  • New Mexico Civil War Map
  • Civil War Pensions Index Cards
    Each card gives the soldier’s name, unit, the application number, the certificate number and the state from which the soldier served. In some cases, the soldier’s rank, terms of service, date of death and place of death are given. The index cards refer to pension applications of veterans who served in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1917. The majority of the records pertain to Civil War veterans, but they also include veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, Indian wars, and World War I.
• World War I Records
  • World War 1 Draft Registration Records
• World War II Records
  • World War 2 Casualties – Army, Air Force
  • New Mexico Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard World War II Casualty List
• Korean War Casualty List
• Vietnam War Casualty List

New Mexico Native American Records

• New Mexico Indian Tribes
• Indian Tribes of New Mexico
• New Mexico Indian Reservations
• New Mexico Indian Agencies and Schools
• New Mexico Indian Honored War Dead
• New Mexico Indians Wounded in Action
• Condition of 16 New Mexico Indian Pueblos in 1890
• Condition of the New Mexico Indians in 1890
• Indian Missions of New Mexico and Arizona
• Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements of New Mexico
• Indian Pueblos in New Mexico
• Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and their Customs

• Current Federally Recognized Indian Tribes by State
• List of Federally Non-Recognized Tribes
• State Recognized Tribes

• New Mexico Land Patents ~ Catawba ~ Navajo
  • New Mexico Catawba Land Patents
  • New Mexico Navajo Land Patents
• La Pastorela
  Franciscan friars from Mexico and Spain came to New Mexico along El Camino Real, bringing with them song and theatrical performances to teach the native Pueblo Indians the Christmas story — a rich part of New Mexico’s holiday heritage today.

New Mexico Vital Records

• New Mexico Vital Records