Henrietta Martinez Christmas - "A History of Taos County Through Genealogy"

Taos County Historical Society hosts featured speaker Henrietta Martinez Christmas, genealogical and historical researcher and New Mexico historian. The title of her talk is
"A History of Taos County Through Genealogy".
Henrietta Martinez Christmas a native New Mexican is a well-known genealogical and historical researcher. She descends from eleven of the soldiers that came with Onate in 1598. She has written several books which relate to New Mexico's small towns and history and over 160 articles about New Mexico's Colonial families. She is a long-time member and current President of New Mexico Genealogical Society. She has worked with the History Museum of New Mexico, The Albuquerque Museum, The El Camino Real Heritage site in preparing exhibits and researching historical sites. She is a frequent contributor to author's book in terms of researching biographies of individuals. She works with a group that honors historic women in New Mexico for the NM Historic Marker Program. Honored by the DAR for historic preservation, she has extracted and transcribed over 50 books which consist of hundreds o thousands of records. Her latest award-winning book The Genealogy Checklist won two awards in 2017. Her talk "A History of Taos County through Genealogy" examines the usual and unusual events, land downers, census and timelines of Taos County to see how one is connected to the history of this area.

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I am living away from New Mexico and feel I need to find out more to pass on to my son thank you for standing up and helping fellow New Mexican s discover our history that often times is not understood .

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Thank you for this!!!

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My paternal grandmother is from talpa Ernestina Martinez -lopez