Bernalillo County Resources

Bernalillo County is an original New Mexico County created in 1852.

RESOURCE

COMMENTS

Bernalillo County Clerk
One Civic Plaza NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 505-768-4090
Email: clerk@bernco.gov

Clerk has land records (date unknown), probate records from 1895, and birth and death records from 1920.

Bernalillo Probate Court

Probate Court of Bernalillo County
6th Floor
One Civic Plaza NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 505-768-4247

 Clerk of the District Court has divorce, guardianship, adoption and civil court records.

Bernalillo County Assessor
PO Box 27108
Albuquerque, NM 87125
Phone: 505-222-3700
FAX: 505-222-3770
Email: assessor@bernco.gov

 County Assessor has taxpayer lists.
Bernalillo County Treasurer
PO Box 627
Albuquerque, NM 87103
Phone: 505-768-4031

Email: treas@bernco.gov		  

State of New Mexico
Vital Statistics Bureau
PO Box 968
Santa Fe, NM 87501

 

 Birth and Death records from 1919 are on file. Delayed birth certificates are available from 1867 and are incomplete.
The Albuquerque Journal Bernalillo County's leading newspaper. Obits from 1928-1998 can be obtained by sending an email request to librarygenealogy@cabq.gov. Obits after 1998 are available online through http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/abqjournal/.
Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library This library is the largest public collection of genealogy records for New Mexico. Click on http://abqlibrary.org/genealogy.
The Center for Southwest Research
Zimmerman Library
University of New Mexico
9am to 5pm M,Th, Fr
9am to 7pm Tu, Th
Noon to 4pm Sa, Su
Please contact the coordinator, Nancy Brown (505-277-6451) 		There is so much to tell about the CSWR materials - just the Spanish and Mexican ones alone would take all day - and there is much that would help researchers. For example, some valuable Spanish materials are in the France Vinton Scholes MSS Collection and the collection of photostat documents from the Archivo General de las Indias (AGI), the Archivo General de la Nacion (AGN), and from other archives in Spain and Mexico that are at this archive. Many documents from the Spanish era stored in the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe were destroyed in the Pueblo Revolt, or tossed out under the U.S. regime, but "copies" of many NM documents had been sent to the King in Spain and the Viceroy in Mexico. Also many on the history of Mexico and Yucatan. At the present time there is no really good guide or index at CSWR. Although a few are transcribed, the majority remain in the original Spanish.