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	History Day
	National History Day is a year-long education program that engages students in grades 6-12 in the process of discovery and interpretation of historical topics. Students produce dramatic performances, imaginative exhibits, multimedia documentaries and research papers based on research related to an annual theme. These projects are then evaluated at local, state, and national competitions. New Mexico History Day is part of National History Day and is sponsored by the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities and the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. Public, private and home schools are welcome to participate. The competition starts at a local or district level and progresses to state and national competitions. To enter the competition contact your state coordinator for the dates and registration information for your local contest . Email: historyday@nmhum.org The New Mexico Genealogical Society has been awarding $100 prizes in each of two levels: best Junior Individual Exhibit and best Senior Individual Exhibit level displaying the best documentated use of primary source material in a genealogical, family history or community history topic. Winners and their projects are listed at: History Day.
	Tricentennial 2006
	Our gift to Albuquerque's 300th birthday, 2006 Aqui se Comienza - A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque. The book is the New Mexico Genealogical Society's contribution to the city-wide Tricentennial Project, celebrating Albuquerque's 300th birthday. A year-long project that encompassed numerous volunteers, it was directed by Gloria Valencia. Released to the public in 2007 and has won prestigious awards. It is Book E-13 in NMGS Press publications.
	Publications - The NMGS Press
	Our longest standing project is recording translated AASF sacramental documents, as well as county and census records. Volunteers across the country who have skills in paleography collaborate with those who type the material, work in data entry or create indexes, and the Society coordinates their publication. See a full current list at NMGS Press. Genealogical Resources in New Mexico, by Genealogist editor Karen Stein Daniel, CGSM, received favorable recognition by both Family Tree Magazine (David A. Fryxell, Aug 2004, pp. 50-59), and Ancestry (Dwight A. Radford, Sept/Oct issue, p. 34-41). The New third edition of Genealogical Resources in New Mexico is much larger at 124 pages. This edition offers the latest information regarding sources judged helpful to researchers, as well as contact information. The New Mexico Genealogist has been published four times each year since 1962. It was recently awarded the Lansing B. Bloom Award by the Historical Society of New Mexico "for outstanding publication or series of publications by a society or institution." The Genealogist received professional critiques by the National Genealogical Society in 1998 (Patricia Black Esterly, editor) and again in 2000 (Karen Stein Daniel, editor). The First 40 Years of the NMGS Quarterly were produced on a CD in 2002. The result is an information-packed CD with transcriptions of state, county, and church records, genealogy articles, and historical information with approximately 100,000 names in the index.
	The NMGS Web Site
	Begun in 1997 by Patricia Black Esterly and temporarily assisted by Nancy Anderson and Betty Albright, it continues through today. Design plus generous assistance from David Pitchford, John Meister, and Jim Zimmerman of NetChannel, Inc. have also helped make this site a success. The consistent and generous support of the New Mexico Genealogical Society Board of Directors is always appreciated. This web site was designated "Site of the Week" by both the Albuquerque Journal, during our first month online, and by the Albuquerque Tribune's genealogy columnist Mary Penner in December 2005. In 1999 this site was chosen by Study Web researchers  to be on their list of the best educational resources  on the web for students and teachers.
	The Catholic Church Project (LCCR)
	Help for finding the Catholic church where your ancestors' records of birth, marriage, and death were recorded. In December 2005, Locating Catholic Church Records in New Mexico was named by Family Tree magazine as one of the best free "cyberstops for researching ancestors." See "States of Excellence"
	The Rio Grande Valley Library System
	We support our local genealogy library, the Special Collections Branch of the Rio Grande Valley Library System. Profits from the sale of our books and CDs are used to help fund purchases of research materials including books, CDs, microforms, and computer hardware and software.
	History of AASF Publications (cont. from top of page):
	The publication project began about 1975, when the sacramental records of the Archdiocese were housed in Albuquerque. Virginia Olmsted asked permission of Father Angelico Chavez to extract baptisms prior to 1850. At that time, the extractions were recorded by hand into steno notebooks. Each baptism record was typed onto a 3x5 card, proofread at every stage, and kept in a filing cabinet. In addition to Virginia Olmsted, the original extractors included Petrita Alcon, Eloise and Henry Arellanes, Catherine Blouin, Donald Dreesen, Amelia Garcia, Sophie Kemm, Ella Louise May, Felipe Mirabal, Lila Pfeufer, and Marie Roybal. Others helping with proofreading and typing included Evelyn Bishop, Betty Gutierrez, Karen Hansen, Ann Mossman, and Margaret Windham. Later Father Chavez gave permission for one volume of Albuquerque baptisms. This was Albuquerque Baptisms, 1706-1850, (Book #A-1), which was released in 1983. When Mrs. Olmsted passed away, the project was put on hold until Margaret Windham shouldered the task, and it continues today under her direction. At this time, Rose Holte serves as liaison between the NMGS Board and all the projects underway, including this one. The New Mexico Genealogical Society has now published 30 books of New Mexico baptisms (from 1701) and marriages (from 1726), plus census and cemetery recordings. More are in progress. Most of the books are over 450 pages in length, and many 500 and 600 pages. This immense project has made thousands of records available to the researcher. The Society has earmed a reputation of excellence in its publications, due to the dedication of its workers. We are unanimous in our choices of Margaret L. Windham and Evelyn Lujan Baca as the NMGS 2003 and 2004 nominees for the Ruth C. Bishop Volunteer Hall of Honor.

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