Welcome to Eddy County
New Mexico!

                                                                                                                                       

 

If you are interested in being a volunteer to do look-ups or to transcribe data, please contact the NM State Coordinator, Cheryl Burbank.    For more information about all of the projects relating to us, please visit these links:
USGenWeb Project, NMGenWeb Project, NMGenWeb Counties, 

                         VOLUNTEERS:                         

 All volunteer work will be done on an as time permits basis!

IMPORTANT:  For obvious reasons we will not honor requests from professional Genealogists!!!

Volunteers are needed  to help add cemetery files in Carlsbad and Artesia.

 

Eddy County Coordinator:  Donna Cain-Ruiz.

AREA LINKS OF INTEREST

 

Please Post A Query

Please post your queries through the Queries option below.  Anyone having any information regarding Eddy County, such as news items from the past, old photos, old bibles, or anything else that would relate to our site, please email me directly instead of posting to the queries board.  Any information relating to this area will be considered for posting.

THIS PAGE LAST UPDATED ON  July 17, 2016

       

When searching for a particular name in the funeral records, cemeteries, or obituaries, you may find it helpful to click on Edit at the top of your browser, then click Find (or Find in page), which will bring up a box for you to enter a name (first or last) to search for.  After entering the name, it will take you to the place in the page where that name appears.  This can be helpful since these records are not alphabetized.

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Carlsbad Municipal Cemetery By Last Name (We need volunteers to help with this)
 

More Eddy County Cemeteries

            The cemeteries will be added to as we gather more information.

OBITUARIES AND FUNERAL RECORDS
The only obits we have are posted.  Please do not send request for lookups.  If you don't find what you are looking for here, we suggest you contact a funeral home in Eddy County or one of the Eddy County newspapers directly.  See links below for further assistance.

 

EARLY EDDY COUNTY BIRTHS BY YEAR

EARLY EDDY COUNTY DEATHS BY YEAR

 

EDDY COUNTY NEWS

 

                                                                           

EDDY COUNTY MARRIAGES: 1890-1940
Listed by Bride's Last Name

EDDY COUNTY MARRIAGES: 1890-1940
Listed by Groom's Last Name

 

EDDY COUNTY PROBATE RECORDS: 1887-2000
Listed by Last Name

 

 

          EDDY COUNTY MILITARY RECORDS:  1900-1999
Listed by Last Name

NEW MEXICO CENSUS INFORMATION

NEW MEXICO CENSUS FOR THE YEAR 1880 is available.  If you want a look-up for this year you can contact Angela Lewis, her e-mail is gen4nm@nmia.com.  Angela will ONLY do New Mexico look-ups.

New Mexico Genealogical Society.  Catholic church records for Eddy County and New Mexico:  The web site is http://www.nmgs.org/Chrchs-Eddy.htm

USGenWeb Kidz Project is a very good source for all ages.  Don't let the title fool you, the information on this web site will be helpful for the experienced and the novice / young and old.  This web site will give lots of information on how to get started if you are new to family research, as well as offer many resources.

Please check the following links for other information pertaining to the history of Eddy County:
 SOCORRO COUNTY  -  was an original county created in 1852.
 LINCOLN COUNTY  -  was formed from the east part of Socorro County
                                             in 1869.  
CHAVES COUNTY  -     was created from the east part of Lincoln County
                                           in 1887.  This county is a neighboring county to
                                           Eddy County which was also created from the
                                           east side of Lincoln County in 1889.

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Last update:  July 17. 2016

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