We are not able to provide individual help that requires substantial research, but if you will follow the suggestions below we can help you find your own answers. The number of inquiries we have been receiving daily has created a large backlog for our small but dedicated staff of volunteers.

What you can do:

1. Send us one or both of the following forms, filled in with as much information as you can:
   a Pedigree (Ancestor) Chart and/or a New Mexico Ancestors form.
   
2. Please state your question clearly, keeping to only one or two names or questions per mailing. The information on the above forms will give us, in an organized fashion, the general location and approximate dates that influence your question.
   
3. Mail to New Mexico Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 27559, Albuquerque, NM 87125-7559. The physical address is necessary because not all of our volunteers are on e-mail.
   
4. Enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. A volunteer will correspond directly with you and will discuss costs, if any, or will provide a list of researchers for hire.

What we do best
is provide the means and opportunity for serious researchers to find answers:

• by consistently publishing New Mexico records that are otherwise difficult to obtain or to decipher.
• by publishing queries, and histories of New Mexico ancestors in the New Mexico Genealogist,
• by publishing a complete membership/research list each year so that members can easily locate others who are researching the same families or localities,
• by providing an index at the end of each year of names and topics that have appeared in Genealogist articles that year, and
• by providing accessible links on our web site to online resources with free searchable information.

In the long run, membership and reading the New Mexico Genealogist regularly is the best way for New Mexico researchers to be successful.

We appreciate our members and try our best to serve them well.