The NMGS BookStore Some recommended works for your library
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Order New Mexico records published by NMGS: See the full list atNMGS Press.
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library, the Special Collections branch of the Albuquerque Public
Library. Just by
placing your Amazon.com orders through a link on this web site, you are
helping to purchase books and supplies for the library. (That applies to
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Preferred style for entries submitted to the New Mexico Genealogist:
Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian by Elizabeth Shown Mills, and secondarily, The Chicago Manual of Style. It is preferred that lineage compilations follow formatting as outlined in The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual, Millennium Edition, published by the Board for Certification of Genealogists.
DNA & Genealogy:
Commissioned by Family Tree DNA for their Second International
Conference on Genetic Genealogy at National Geographic Headquarters in
Washington DC. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced readers. Tutorials
on the use of DNA for genealogy.
Stanley M. Hordes 376 pgs, Columbia Univ. Press (March 17 2008).
ISBN-10: 0231129378
Pueblos, Spaniards, and The Kingdom of New Mexico, a new book by John L. Kessell, Professor
Emeritus of History at the University of New Mexico, Dr. Kessell
specializes in the American Southwest during the Spanish Colonial
period.
A narrative
history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico.
Kessell's work presents a clearer picture than ever before of events
leading to the Pueblo Revolt.
Notes from Amazon editorial review: ". . . much of the information contained in Ryskamp's classic Tracing Your Hispanic Heritage
(1984) is readily available again in this updated, revised version that
addresses recent developments (computer applications, microfilming, .
.)"
Recommended
by NMGS member Annette Wasco: [In this book, Dr. Ryskamp] "covers
civil, military, census, legal and sacramental records from both the
old world and the new. Other topics include language peculiar to old
Spanish language records, handwriting, naming conventions, and general
research techniques and tips. I've found it very valuable in
interpreting church records which have not been transcribed by NMGS
yet."
by Thomas H. Shawker, M.D., Chairman of the National Genealogical
Society's Family Health and Heredity Committee and president of the
Prince George's County Genealogical Society.
ISBN-10: 1401601448
Hispanic Albuquerque 1706-1846,
by Marc Simmons.
UNM Press, 2003. Tells the story of the founding of the Villa de Alburquerque by Governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdes.
Albuquerque celebrated its 300th birthday in 2006.
[The
author] seeks not merely to trace the origins of what he calls
Hispanophobia but to analyze its impact on American education,
textbooks, religion, and especially foreign policy. UNM Press, October
2008.
Pueblos, Spaniards, and The Kingdom of New Mexico, a new book by John L. Kessell, Professor
Emeritus of History at the University of New Mexico, specializes in the
American Southwest during the Spanish Colonial period.
A narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in
New Mexico. Kessell's work presents a clearer picture than ever before
of events leading to the Pueblo Revolt.ISBN-10: 0806139692
Product Description
One of the first travel journals of its kind to be published, this epic
poem about Juan de Oñate’s entrada that led to the founding of Nueva
México in 1598 (to become the state of New Mexico 314 years later) is
full of the hopes and dreams of those who traveled with Oñate. Historia de la Nueva México, 1610 was written fourteen years before John Smith’s History of Virginia.
Its thirty-four cantos have long been considered a key source for early
New Mexico history and this bilingual Spanish/English version presents
it as literature.
By situating Historia de la Nueva México, 1610 within the Hispanic literary heritage, the work is restored to the canon of American literature.
DNA & Genealogy,
by Colleen Fitzpatrick. Rice Book Press, 1st edition (2005).
Commissioned by Family Tree DNA for their Second International
Conference on Genetic Genealogy at National Geographic Headquarters in
Washington DC. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced readers. Tutorials
on the use of DNA for genealogy.Paperback: 320 pages, ISBN-10: 1401601448, ASIN: B000EMSNYY.
The Place Names of New Mexico,
by Robert Julyan, 1996. A geographical dictionary of New Mexico's towns
and physical features. UNM Press; 2nd edition January 1999.
The story of Padre Antonio José Martinez and Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy
Two dynamic personalities of the late 1850s, whose philosophical
differences clashed and reverberated throughout the territory.
But Time and Chance,
by Fray Angelico Chavez. A vivid record of the life of the
controversial Padre Jose Martinez of Taos. Sunstone Press, 1st ed., Jun
1, 1981.
Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather. Fiction, Vintage books. A highly romanticized version of Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy while serving in New Mexico. Unfortunately, at the expense of Padre Martinez.
NEW BOOK: Fr. Juan Romero's latest book is now available. It's an English version of a never-before published 1877 Manuscript Biografía del Presbíbero Antontio José Martinez, Cura de Taos. You can order it now: Send payment of $22 (includes tax and postage) to
TheTaos Connection, 47741 East Palm Canyon Dr., C-135 -- Palm Springs, CA 92264.
Note from NMGS member Armando Sandoval: Other books help to illuminate the true story of Padre Martinez of Taos:
1) New Perspectives from Taos
with essays by E. A. Mares, Bette S. Weidman, Fr. Thomas J. Steele,
Patricia Clark Smith, and Ray John de Aragon. UNM Press, 1989.
Available through Amazon.com.
2) Memorias sobre la vida del Presbitero Don Antonio Jose Martinez,
por Pedro Sanchez. Original Spanish text, with English translation by
Ray John de Aragon. Lightning Tree publishers, 1978. The original
Spanish edition of this book was published in 1903.
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Legacy of Honor: the Life of Rafael Chacon, a Nineteenth Century New Mexican.
The family of authorJacqueline Dorgan Meketa has announced a limited release of first edition copies of this book.
They are new, never been read cloth-bound copies from the Meketa's private collection. University of New Mexico, ISBN 0-8263-0886-4
“It
was my Mother’s explicit wish that her books be in the hands of those
who would appreciate them most. Her undying love of the history
of the New Mexico Territory and the people of the times defined who she
was. Her wish was to immortalize the common man and woman and the
trials and events of their lives in such a way as to enrich our lives
today.” ~Rebecca Meketa Lovesee~
Copies may be acquired for $80.00 and are limited to 2 per person. A photo of Jacqueline and her husband, historian Charles Meketa, is included.Contact: Rebecca Lovesee, 3713 Camino Sacramento NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111.
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