You may get a jillion replies to your query about Tom Martinez's books His mailing address is ... Thomas D.Martinez 1140 Kotenberg Ave. San Jose, CA 95125 His e-mail address is ... [email protected] Tom has completed 5 Baptisms Books: ---Abiquiu,Taos, Santa Fe, Santa Cruz dela Canada. and San Juan Delos Cabellaros. I think that he sells the above for about$85 each; the Taos book is $95. ---He also just finished one for El Rito Baptisms, selling for $50, if I recall correctly. I just recently interacted with him and some other excellent researchers July 5-7 at the GSHA conference in Pueblo, CO. I don't recall prices for the following resources but I'll list them so that folks know what is availble out there and you can contact these individuals if you are interested. Their extracted records have made my research work so much simpler that I want to share what I've learned about them and their books. If folks are not familiar with the work of Maria Clara Martinez for records of families in the San Luis Valley area, her books are also excellent. Her e-mail address is ... [email protected] Her postal mailing address ... Box 387 San Pablo, CO 81153-0387 phone: 719-672-3371 Maria Clara has completed books on ---some descendants of the three Montes Vigils ... (Francisco, Domingo, and Juan) with many, many of the surnames connected to this famiy. I've also purchased other books from Maria Clara ... --- Families from San Acacio ... (surnames include ... Arguello, Bedan, Candelaria, Cordova, Garcia, Jaques, Lopez, Martin(ez), Medina, Olivas, Quintana, Romero, St. Clari, and Velasquez. ---Some descendants of Josefa ARELLANO ... (Arellanos of northern NM and southern CO). ---Some descendants of Antonio Rodrigo Taylor --- (Arroyo Hondo -- El Rito de San Francisco). ---Some descendants of Jose Romero & Luargda Hurtado ---RAICES--The Column Genealogy and family history articles ... by Maria C. Martinez ... ... from La Sierra a San Luis CO newspaper. Patricia Sanchez Rau & Henrietta Martinez Christmas just completed an exctraction (well indexed) of 100 years of Santa Cruz marriages 1726-1826. This can be purchased from either Henrietta or Pat. Henrietta ... [email protected] 5448 Illini Way Boulder, CO 80303 Pat ... [email protected] 5523 E. Old Farm Circle Colorado Springs, CO 80917 Henrietta maintains a good info website at http://www.trementina.com Betty Pacheco has books available of her extractions from (San Lorenzo) Picuris records ... 718 Euclid, Pueblo, CO 81004 [Betty does not have e-mail.] Picuris Baptisms 1750-1867 (not indexed) ---INDEX for B. Pacheco's Picuris Baptisms available from ... Genealogy Club of Albuquerque c/o Janet Littleton, 1408 Propps St. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87112-4252 Picuris Marriages 1726-1837 (indexed). Picuris Deaths 1728-1861 (indexed). The GSHA (Southern California chapter) also provides books & publications available for purchase. I just purchased NM Marriages for the Pueblo & Mission of San Ildefonso 1709-1880. For those of us researching records for ancestors who migrated from northern NM into southern CO, this and all those I've mentioned are a treasure chest of resources. The HGRC-NM has an ever-growing collection of extracted records of baptisms and marriages available for purchase. Their publication list is available on the web (see URL noted later in this message.) Web resources: If not already familiar with the website maintained by Jose Antonio Esquibel , do check BEYOND ORIGINS at which he posts rsearch findings beyond that done by Fray Angelico Chavez in Chavez's book Origins of New Mexico Families. http://pages.prodigy.net/bluemountain1/beyondorigins.htm Hispanic Genealogy Resource Center of New Mexico (HGRC-NM) searchable online data base (not the easiest to search but has good, credible information) ... http://www.nmia.com/~hgrc/ National Society of Hispanic Genealogy (NSHG) http://www.hispanicgen.org Society of Hispanic Historical & Ancestral Research (SHAAR) Web magazine: www.Somos Primos.com e-mail contact: [email protected] The quarterly journals of these Hispanic genealogy societies are also excellent resources for those of us researching Spanish surnamed families and their spouses. Herencia, HGRC, PO Box 51088, Albuquerque, NM 87181 Raices, NSHG (National Society of Hispanic Genealogy), 924 W. Colfax Ave., Denver, CO 80204. Nuestras Raices, GSHA, (Genealogy Society of Hispanic America), PO Box 9606, Denver, CO 80209-0606 ================================== In a message dated 7/11/02 6:46:13 AM, [email protected] writes: << San Juan baptisms Santa Cruz baptisms Taos baptisms >>