Newspapers can help in finding birth, death, land and marriage announcements.
Find thousands of New Mexico newspapers dating from the 1850s to the present on microfilm at the NM State Library. We also have the New York Times on microfilm from 1851 to mid-September 2008, along with an index to the New York Times from 1851 to 2011 and the Personal Names Index from 1851 to 2003. Of course, microfilm readers/printers are also available on site.
For more information on how to use the NM State Library Newspaper collection, click here.
Use Chronicling America to search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963. Chronicling America is an online collection from all around the country hosted by the Library of Congress. Use the Advanced Search options to limit your search by State, newspaper, or time period.
Internet Archive Newspapers is part of a larger digital library containing freely available books, images, audio and software applications that are not subject to copyright. Reading and downloading the materials generally requires that you set up a free account on the Internet Archive website. In addition to an international newspaper collection, the archive also contains digitized family histories, and town, city and county directories and histories. It is an invaluable resource to genealogists.
For those searching for New Mexican or Southwestern ancestors, it also contains important historical books including Twitchell's Spanish Archives of New Mexico and Fray Angelico Chavez' Origins of New Mexico Families.
Google News Archive provides free access to digitized news archives from around the world. Some papers in the service date to the 18th century. The service links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid. Articles can be searched by time period and keyword.
Newspaper Archive is a database collection of historic newspapers from around the nation dating back to 1849 (though there are some gaps in the coverage). This database can only be accessed at the State Library though your local public library may also have access. If you are in the library, click to access Newspaper Archive.