Libraries and Archives

Socorro Public Library
401 Park Street
Socorro, New Mexico 87801
(575) 835-1114

Socorro Public Library: Genealogy

Socorro Public Library: Facebook

Rio Abajo Community Library
28 Calle De Centro Sur
La Joya, New Mexico 87028
(505) 861-8289

Albuquerque Special Collections Library
423 Central NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102
(505) 848-1376

University of New Mexico's Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections

New Mexico State Library
1209 Camino Carlos Rey
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507-5166
(505) 476-9700

Southwest Collection

You can email a librarian at the New Mexico State Library who specializes in Southwest research here: Ask the Southwest Librarian

Digital Archive

The State Library also has two genealogy guides online:
Genealogical Resources
Genealogical Resources: Basic Resources

New Mexico State Records Center and Archives

Their guide to genealogy: Tracing Your Genealogy

Rocky Mountain Online Archive

The site has finding aids for archival material. Actual records are not online.

Inventory of the Socorro County, N.M. Records, 1851-1935
Collection consists of the records of Socorro County, New Mexico. Included are records of the county clerk (1862-1935), assessor (1870-1932), treasurer (1867-1876), sheriff (1903-1917), county commission (1876-1932), justice of the peace (1867-1931), probate court (1867-1924), and county school superintendent and board of education (1909-1919). Also included are miscellaneous records which include a city of Socorro audit (1924-1930) and a Magdalena census enumeration (1912?). Clerk's records include registers of oaths and bonds, licenses, homestead and grazing claims; mining records, marriage records, notarial records, voter lists, and election records. Probate records include wills and testaments, a volume of which also contains school commission proceedings (1875-1876). Some records are in Spanish.

WorldCat
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