thanks so much for all of this info shalane! hits it right on the nose for me & i really appreciate it! now if you could just create an "8th" day, dedicated only to genealogy, i'd be a happy camper! ha ha! taylor At 08:50 AM 6/6/02 -0700, Shalane wrote: >For those of your who are doing research on your ancestors who came up >from New Mexico, >a good way of finding out more about your ancestors is to read historical >research on it. Even if your ancestor isn't mentioned, you will gain a >general understanding of their lives. And if your ancestor is mentioned, >you have a bonus. Two good books on Abiquiu and the Rio Chama Valley, and >the "pioneers" (broader area than Abiquiu) are: > >Valley of Shining Stone. Lesley Poling-Kempes. Tucson:University of >Arizona Press. 1997 > >Pobladores: Hispanic Americans of the Ute Frontier. Frances Leon Quintana. >Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 1991. > >Order them via inter-libaray loan through your local library. > >Also, go to the website of University of New Mexico and search for >interested subjects or keywords, then if you find an interesting book, get >the info off the web site and order it through your local library's >inter-library loan. > > >