21 November 2008

Native American Genealogical Resources for New Mexico

Native American Genealogical Resources for New Mexico

By Karen Stein Daniel, CGSM

Patterned after the 3rd edition of Genealogical Resources for New Mexico, this new resource guide is for genealogical and family history researchers of New Mexico Apache, Navajo, Pueblo, and Ute families.

The guide is extensively researched with annotated bibliographies. It includes chapters on archives, libraries, and museums, church resources, Federal Government resources, Family History Library microfilm, internet resources, vital record resources, and additional resources.

Information is also included for members of these tribes who may have lived, at least part of the time, in Arizona, Colorado, or Utah.

The book is indexed and contains 255 pages, keys to using the guide, a list of terms, and a discussion of the Genealogical Proof Standard.

About the author: NMGS member Karen Stein Daniel is a certified genealogist and a former editor of the New Mexico Genealogist. She is author of several books for the New Mexico Genealogical Society, including two editions of Genealogical Resources for New Mexico, New Mexico Mining Fatalities and Accidents, and Naturalization Records by New Mexico Courts.

Click here for an order form, or return to NMGS Press for a full list of books by NMGS Press. This is Book E-14.

20 November 2008

Retirement Party for Joe Sabatini, Special Collection Librarian

The notice below was sent to me by the librarians at the Albuquerque Special Collections Library. They asked me to share the information. Joe Sabatini is an fantastic librarian in an excellent library. NMGS will miss him. (By the way, he'll be speaking at our January program.)
Joe Sabatini
is Retiring!
Please Join Us to Celebrate
Joe’s 35 years with the
Albuquerque/Bernalillo
County Library System.

When: Thursday, December 4 , 2008
Time: 3:00 -5:00 P.M.
Where: Special Collections Library

423 Central NE
( Central & Edith)

17 November 2008

John Kessell Book Signing

The following was sent to us by Bookworks, an Albuquerque bookstore.

November 23,2008 at 3pm at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande in the Flying Star Plaza

For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.

John L. Kessell’s Pueblos,Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico is the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Kessell clearly describes the Pueblo world encountered by Spanish conquistador Juan de OƱate and portrays important but lesser-known Indian partisans, while weaving analysis and interpretation into the flow of life in 17th century New Mexico.

04 November 2008

Limited Release: The Life of Rafael Chacon

The advertisement below is meant for informational purposes only, and is not an official endorsement by the New Mexico Genealogical Society.

Limited Release

Legacy of Honor
The Life of
Rafael Chacon,
A Nineteenth-Century
New Mexican


Edited by
Jacqueline Dorgan Meketa


The family of Jacqueline Meketa is releasing a limited quantity of the University of New Mexico Press, first edition of this book, from the Meketa’s private collection. These are brand new, never been read cloth-bound copies.
ISBN 0-8263-0886-4

“It was my Mother’s explicit wish that her books be in the hands of those that 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 and include a photo of Jacqueline and
her husband, historian Charles Meketa.

Contact: Rebecca Lovesee, 3713 Camino Sacramento NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111 (505) 323-4923