RESOURCES AND INFORMATION

PLACES

Portales Public Library, 218 South Avenue "B", Portales, NM 88130, 505.356.3940

Eastern New Mexico University Museum, Portales, NM, 505.356.5235

MAPS

A local artist has drawn a map of the downtown area of Portales as it was in 1909. Available for purchase and all buildings are identified. The maps are pen and ink and are 18" x 28" in size, suitable for framing. Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing one. Contact Janelle Foster.

New Mexico History and Map Links placed here by Harold Kilmer and Don McAlavy. Check here to see where New Mexico came from, how it has changed, and how our county boundaries have changed. Check this site to see why people gathered in certain areas when they came to New Mexico.

Click here for a 1950 Road Map of Roosevelt County

Here's a simple map of the county

This will get you an 1883 map of New Mexico

And this will get you a New Mexico map from 1909

A closer view of the Roosevelt County area from 1909

This is a shaded relief map of the State of New Mexico

BOOKS

"Roosevelt County History & Heritage", by Jean M. Burroughs, 1975. A limited number of these books are for sale along with the Index listed below. Contact Janelle Foster for ordering instructions.

I have finished a new index for the book "Roosevelt County History and Heritage" published in 1975 by Jean Burroughs. The book does contain an index, but does not include all of the names so valuable to us as genealogists. The original contains place names and subjects, which I have chosen not to include in my work. If anyone is interested in purchasing this index, done with a professional indexing program, 25 pages 8 1/2 x 5, soft cover and stapled, please contact me at: jglocke@yucca.net

"Early Settlers of Roosevelt County, NM", by Dona L. Stone & Pearce S. Grove, 1977

"Cemeteries of Roosevelt County", by El Portal D.A.R. Chapter "

High Plains History", by the High Plains Historical Foundation, 1980. Contains family histories, World War II soldiers, and tombstone records for some Roosevelt County cemeteries. Edited by Don McAlavy and Harold Kilmer

"History of the Causey, NM Area & It's Pioneers", by Lawrence Little, 1995. Contains family histories of the Causey area & early county land & tax records, along with newspapers and the 1910 census

ORGANIZATIONS

Portales Concert Band ca. 1915

ENMU; yearbook for 1936

Genealogy Resources in Portales, NM

Roosevelt County Searchers.

50 Years of Marriages in Roosevelt County, NM, 1903 – 1953. Compiled and published by the Roosevelt County Searchers in 2001. For ordering reference contact Janelle Foster.

Register of Deaths Index, Roosevelt Co., 1909-1918

New Mexico Death Index, 1899 - 1940

Portales News - Tribune . See current news and obits daily.

CNJ Obit Index. Clovis Newspaper Obit Index contains over 46,000names including many from counties surrounding Curry and may have lived in this area or had family who lived in this area. Compiled by the Family History Center and the Curry County Genealogical Society in 1999 and 2000.

Bataan Corregidor Memorial with Roosevelt County Veteran name list for the 200th/515th Coast Artillery Batan-Corregidor WWII Memorial Site.

Santa Fe National Cemetery.

Locating Church Records in New Mexico

Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918 in New Mexico.

Last update: April 24 2008