Searching For Distant Relatives?

     The San Luis Valley Museum Association spans an area the size of Connecticut!  Our member museums each have intimate knowledge of the people and events comprising their history.  Please feel free to use the map on our home page to locate the museum nearest the town you are interested in, then contact them for more information.

     Maria Clara Martinez has a database comprising 39,000 primarily Hispanic persons from Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico.  This comprehensive resource includes the founding families of La Culebra, La Veta, Walsenbury, Conejos, San Miguel de La Costilla, and other San Luis Valley towns.  Maria has done special research on descendants of William (Guillermo) Le Blanc, Tom Tobin, Charles Bent (who was killed at the Taos massacre), Kit Carson, the Vigil family, Tom Boggs, and Antoine Leroux.  Feel free to email Maria for more information.

     Scott Scheibe maintains excellent web sites with a wealth of genealogical information for Alamosa, Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande and Saguache Counties.  Coņejos County is hosted by Connie Perkins.   Click the links to visit these sites. You can also check out the Colorado GenWeb Project site.

     Another excellent source of information is the Monte Vista Historical Society, which has over 1,500 photographs cataloged.  They will be happy to try to help you, and can provide custom reprints of any of their images.