Special Collections owns census records on microfilm for the entire United States from 1790 to 1880, plus all that's available for 1890. Local census records for New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado through 1920 are held, in addition to earlier partial censuses for New Mexico. Special Censuses for Native Americans in New Mexico are available in microfilm as are the Dawes Enrollment Cards for the Oklahoma tribes. Several computers are available for genealogy database searches. Also available online are the Albuquerque obituary index and New Mexico cemetery records.
Volunteers are on hand to instruct researchers in the use of the computers.
Hispanic materials are emphasized for New Mexico and the West. I and II , the Mexican Archives of New Mexico , the Land Grant Records , and portions of the Territorial Archives on microfilm. Civil War pension records for New Mexico and county records for the territorial period are also available. All publications of the New Mexico Genealogical Society are owned, as are those of Fray Angelico Chavez. The Dreesen files on Rio Abajo residents, from the period prior to 1900, contain many county histories and attendant family histories.