Beyond Origins of New Mexico Families

A website maintained by José Antonio Esquibel

NOTICE: As of January 1, 2007, updates will no longer be made to the pages of this website due to a change of Internet service provider.

Thank you to all those who shared their research willingly on this web site.

This series of pages is designed to provide additions and corrections to the great work of New Mexico genealogy compiled by the late Fray Angélico Chávez (1910-1996), Origins of New Mexico Families in the Spanish Colonial Period.

This seminal book was first published in 1954 by William Gannon, Santa Fe, New Mexico. A facsimile edition was published by William Gannon, Santa Fe, in 1975. Under the supervision of Thomas E. Chávez, nephew of Fray Angélico and Director of The Palace of the Governors (Museum of New Mexico), a revised edition was published by the Museum of New Mexico Press in 1992. This revised edition included the important addition of "Addenda to New Mexico Families," first published as a series in El Palacio, the magazine of the Museum of New Mexico, from 1955 to 1957, and "New Names to New Mexico," which also appeared in the same magazine in 1957 (September, October, November, December). Both of these related works were often difficult for interested people to locate.

This web site contains new genealogical information on many New Mexico families that is based on research into primary documents, and highlights additional material published in past and current genealogical journals related to New Mexico colonial families or material from other publications.

If you have corrections and/or additions to Origins of New Mexico Families, please feel free to share that information by submitting it to Jesquibel@yahoo.com . Please submit the source(s) of the new information, providing a complete citation. Brief and relevant direct quotes from the source(s) are encouraged. Indicate the individual's name, or family name, for which you have new or corrected information and provide the page number from ONMF (e.g. Buenaventura de Esquibel, ONMF: 173, or Gabaldón, ONMF: 177). Your submission will be posted under New Items and eventually added to Beyond ONMF Volume 10.

Sorry, but queries will not be posted on this web site nor answered. Links for posting queries related to New Mexico genealogy research are provided.

Watch this site grow as new items are added. Working together, we can continue to enhance New Mexico genealogical research and reduce the duplication of our collective efforts as we extend the lineages of our families.

As you collect information from these pages for your genealogical files, remember to record the sources. It is important to give credit where it is due and cite all sources. Enjoy!!

New Items (1/1/07)

Beyond ONMF Volume 1 ½ Beyond ONMF Volume 2 ½ Beyond ONMF Volume 3

Beyond ONMF Volume 4 ½ Beyond ONMF Volume 5 ½ Beyond ONMF Volume 6

Beyond ONMF Volume 7 ½ Beyond ONMF Volume 8  ½  Beyond ONMF Volume 9

Beyond OMNF Volume 10

About Your Host

Order: Second Volume of New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations from the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1800-1893 (254 pages)

• New Items: Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque (1/1/07)
• Current Projects and Bibliography of José Antonio Esquibel updated 1/1/07
• New Book Collaboration Between Marc Simmons and José Antonio Esquibel "New Mexico in the Seventeenth Century"
• Northern New Mexico Genealogical Group (4/1/00)
• Update on The Spanish Recolonization of New Mexico: An Account of the Families Recruited at Mexico City in 1693, by José Antonio Esquibel and John B. Colligan (12/1/99)
• Special Features:

I. Alphabetical and Annotated Guide to the 1788 and 1790 Censuses of El Paso del Norte

II. Spanish Surnames Found in the First Book of Baptisms of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Paso del Río del Norte, 1662-1688

III. Comparison of Two Spanish Colonial Censuses of the El Paso Area: 1784-1787

IV. 1803 Census of the El Paso Area, transcribed by John B. Colligan

V. 1806 Census of the El Paso Area, transcribed by John B. Colligan

VI. Prelude to SRNM: Sample genealogical material from the book The Spanish Recolonization of New Mexico

VII. Common Errors in Spanish Colonial New Mexico Genealogy

VIII. The Jewish-Converso Lineage of Don Juan de Oñate

XI. The Jewish-Converso Ancestry of Doña Beatriz de Estrada, Wife of Don Francisco Vásquez de Coronado

X. Four Additional Lines of Descent from the Ha-Levi Family of Burgos, 13th Century - Present

XI. Sephardic Legacy in New Mexico (4/1/00)

XII. New Mexico Colonial Patriots and the Sons of the American Revolution

XIII. Pasajero Records for Colonial New Mexico Families (Robledo and Montes Vigil)

XIV. “Don Diego Vásquez Borrego: Adventurer and Prominent Rancher of Belen, 1733-1753”

XV. Title of Hidalgo

XVI. Selected Burial Records of Santa Cruz de la Cañada 1726-1749

XVII. Abiquiu Fragment Marriage Book 1756-1769

XVIII. Anthology on New Mexico History: E; Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Vol II

• About “New Mexico Roots, Ltd.” and Diligencias Matrimoniales (DMs)
• About the DMs of the Archives of the Archdiocese of Durango
• Links to related New Mexico genealogy web site and posting of queries
• Update on The Royal Road: El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, photographs by Christine Preston, text by Douglas Preston and José Antonio Esquibel, Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1998. (3-1-99)

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Web site established 5/1/98

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