The library, housed in a historic elementary school building, offers resources ranging from New Mexico land grant documents and 200 years of records of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe to censuses and church and government records from El Paso, Texas, and Chihuahua and Durango in Mexico.
The El Paso and Mexico documents are important because “nearly everybody who came this far north went through those areas, so if people work back far enough they’re going to need to look at that information,” said senior librarian Greta Pullen.
The El Paso and Mexico documents are important because “nearly everybody who came this far north went through those areas, so if people work back far enough they’re going to need to look at that information,” said senior librarian Greta Pullen.
The library also owns thousands of volumes on history and culture of New Mexico, the Southwest, Latin America, Mexico “and everywhere that Spain ever went,” to back up family searches, said Carlos Vasquez, director of the cultural center’s history and literary arts.
You can read more in an article in the Texarkana Gazette at http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/WireHeadlines/2010/04/19/new-mexico-library-offers-a-trove-of-his-78.php
