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22 December 2011

NMGS Video Blog December 22, 2011

New Mexico Genealogical Society President Robert Baca introduces the society to YouTube by talking about New Mexico history and his personal genealogy.

05 December 2011

Tim Kimball - January 21, 2012 NMGS Presentation

Botts Hall
Albuquerque Special Collection Library
423 Central NE
Albuquerque, NM
(On the corner of Central and Edith)


Saturday, January 21, 2012
10:30 AM – Noon


The Albuquerque Special Collections Library
and
The New Mexico Genealogical Society
present

Tim Kimball
Asking for the Inestimable Right: New Mexico’s State Government of 1850
 

During spring of 1850 New Mexicans organized a state government and petitioned the US Senate for admission. Calling the promises made by Polk and Kearny in 1846, New Mexico possessed a greater population than most previous territories granted statehood. National hurdles of slavery, anti-Catholicism, and racism doomed this first attempt at statehood in a complex drama that continued for another 62 years.

Tim Kimball is an independent researcher and Army-trained intelligence analyst and is literate in Spanish and German. Tim’s special interest is in archival research on occupation-era New Mexico and its application to a more complete record of the period. He has published several articles and given several presentations on his interpretations.

Join us in the newly renovated Botts Hall at the Albuquerque Special Collections Library on Central and Edith! This presentation is the first of the 2012 New Mexico Centennial Program. Come help us celebrate every third Saturday of the month, January through November, 2012. For more information about our programs, check out the New Mexico Genealogical Society’s website at http://www.nmgs.org/.

This program is free and open to the public.

03 December 2011

2012 New Mexico Centennial Program - Botts Hall

Botts Hall
Albuquerque Special Collection Library
423 Central NE
Albuquerque, NM
(On the northwest corner of Central and Edith)

2012 New Mexico Centennial Program

The New Mexico Genealogical Society in conjunction with the Albuquerque Special Collection Library is celebrating the New Mexico Statehood Centennial in 2012!

The 2012 New Mexico Centennial Program will present speakers on New Mexico history and genealogy throughout the year, January through November. The quality of presenters and topics are guaranteed to be superb. Each presentation is thoroughly researched and will entertain as well as inform.

The 2012 New Mexico Centennial Program will be presented exclusively in the newly renovated Botts Hall, at the Albuquerque Special Collections Library on the northwest corner of Central and Edith. Come join us for the re-opening of the Albuquerque Special Collection Library in January.

List of Programs:

• January 21, 2012, 10:30 A.M. to Noon
Tim Kimball - Asking for the Inestimable Right: N M’s State Government of 1850.

• February, 18, 2012, 10:30 A.M. to Noon
Sherry Robinson – John S. Calhoun: Indian Agent, First Territorial Governor

• March 17, 2012, 10:30 A.M. to Noon
David Stuart - Before New Mexico Got its Name: Archaeology of its First XI Millennia.

• April 21, 2012, 10:30 A.M. to Noon
Henrietta Martinez Christmas - Julian Jacquez, Rosa Villalpando, and the Taos Massacre of August 1760 - Trekking Through Texas.

• May 19, 2012, 10:30 A.M. to Noon
Robert Torrez - Law and Order and the Quest for Statehood: A View From the Bench.

• June 16, 2012, 10:30 A.M. to Noon
Richard Garcia – “Grandma, Where Do We Come From?” Isleta Pueblo Diversity.

• July 21, 2012, 10:30 A.M. to Noon
John Kessell - "¡Más Allá! Don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco and the 18th-Century Kingdom of New Mexico

• August 18, 2012, 10:30 A.M. to Noon
David Snow – Settling New Mexico’s Colonial Landscape

• September 15, 2012, 10:30 A.M. to Noon
Ron Solimon – Pueblo Nations and State and Federal Government Policies 1912-2012

• October 20, 2012, 10:30 A.M. to Noon
Richard Griswold del Castillo – Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and its Effect on New Mexico’s Quest for Statehood.

• November 17, 2012, 10:30 A.M. to Noon
Richard Melzer – Delay after Delay and Finally, Statehood at Last!

All Programs are free and open to the public.

For more information, check out the New Mexico Genealogical Society website at http://www.nmgs.org/.