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For commercially printed books: Please use Amazon.com through this site. By placing your Amazon.com orders through a link on this web site, you are helping to purchase books and supplies for our genealogy library -- the Special Collections branch of the Albuquerque Public Library.
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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.
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.
We celebrated Albuquerque's 300th birthday in 2006!
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 Last Conquistador: Juan de Oñate and the Settling of the Far Southwest, by Marc Simmons 1993. Recommended by Robert Torrez, former New Mexico State Historian.
Recommended by NMGS member Annette Wasco: "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."
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, . .)"
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 romanticized version of Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy while serving in New Mexico.
A recommendation 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.
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.
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
THE TAOS CONNECTION -- 47741 East Palm Canyon Dr., C-135 -- Palm Springs, CA 92264.