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Introduction to this project
These pages will help you identify the Catholic churches that recorded your ancestors' baptism, marriage, and death. Under each church name is a list of the microfilm numbers of that place and time, and a description of the records on that film. Please let us know if this project helped you find the records you needed. See Feedback.
New Mexico's Catholic churches are governed by three independent dioceses, and the 13 Colorado counties along the NM border are governed by another. This site is designed to help you find the right one.
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1. Towns and cities, in alphabetical order:
If you are starting with only the name of a town, this listing will help place that town by its current location. If it was under the jurisdiction of a different county at one time, that information will be noted as well.
2. The Counties
Map: The county lines with their current boundaries: New Mexico Colorado
Counties, in aphabetical order:
( ) Photos of some churches in those counties, courtesy of Connie Langford.
To view the changing New Mexico county boundaries over the years beginning in 1850, see History and Maps, a Rootsweb site. Another informative site is U.S. Territorial Maps, 1775-1920.
3. Records and Sources: |
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Where to go to study microfilms, microfiche, and published materials? For information specific to a county, look on that county's page. |
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Sources consulted to obtain information for this project. |
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Hidden records: Sometimes one or more vital records are found hidden within another group. Let us know if you find one, and we'll publicize it. See "Orphan" records. |
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Problems to watch out for: Some record books were microfilmed by more than one group, so the same records may appear on more than one microfilming, and there is some overlapping of material and dates. Also, the record is sometimes more legible on a different film, so we are listing all film numbers as we learn of them. |
4. Keeping the information current:
Information updates: Phone numbers and addresses on the county pages have been updated to reflect those in the latest version of the New Mexico Blue Book, and numerous readers have contributed additional information as well. See Records for the sources of our information. If you know that an address, phone number, or any other information posted herein is incorrect or missing, please feel free to contact us.
This is a joint volunteer effort. Please contact us to add information to this databank.
Contacting us:
Locating Catholic Church Records in New Mexico is a work-in-progress and the pages will be revised as needed. If sending email to us with corrections or additions that apply to this databank of church records, please include source reference, and send to webmaster@nmgs.org.
5. If, after trying all the steps above, you want further help:
Assistance:
Due to the volume of incoming mail, this webmaster is not able to answer online research questions. Instead, please try our extensive link section. Two other volunteer groups are New Mexico GenWeb and a Rootsweb volunteer site, New Mexico Ancestors. Both are linked to larger networks of sites covering the entire state of New Mexico.
Be sure to "bookmark" this page so that you can find your way back when you are ready to document your family's history.
Locating Catholic Church Records in New Mexico is a joint project by volunteers of the New Mexico Genealogical Society, New Mexico GenWeb, and the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of NM. The goal: to locate the Catholic churches in New Mexico, then present the information in an easy to search format. This is a work-in-progress and we welcome new or corrected information for this databank.
For correspondence regarding this Catholic church project: webmaster@nmgs.org.
To contact NMGS about membership or programs: info@nmgs.org.
The San Luis Valley, rich with records of northern New Mexico families, extends from Saguache County, Colorado, south through Alamosa and Conejos counties to Taos, New Mexico. A comprehensive report about the Culebra River Villages of Costilla County, Colorado, is available from the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. We have obtained permission to feature it in our project. The full manuscript of The Culebra River Villages is a large file (75 pages and 3.94 MB in size). For ease in downloading, smaller sections are provided below.
[Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or later is needed to view these forms. If you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, You can download the free program by clicking here.]
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New Mexico Genealogical
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PO Box 27559
Albuquerque, NM 87125-7559
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