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Welcome to
Lincoln County New Mexico
Genealogy and History
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This website is part of the Genealogy Trails family where our goal is
to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online
for the free use of all researchers.
This county needs a dedicated host!
If you are interested in adopting this county website, visit our
Volunteer
Information Page
to learn more about becoming a host.
(A desire to transcribe data and a knowledge of how to make a basic html
webpage is required)
Please consider sharing you family data so that we can make this website a great resource for the researchers of
New Mexico.
We're looking to add the transcribed data from the vital records, biographies from the county histories as well
as the county history information itself, transcriptions of obituaries, burial data from cemetery trompings and/or
readings, the data from military pensions and other service records; enumerations from census years, any newspaper
gleanings for the family members including birth announcements, marriage announcements, death notices/obits and
anything in between - in short, the data you used to build your family tree (rather than the tree itself since
we don't have the space or manpower to accept gedcoms and trees)
WE REGRET THAT WE ARE UNABLE
TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR YOU.
All data we come across will be added to this website, so please keep checking back.
Contact us to Submit Your Data
Submit an Obituary with our automated form
If you have any comments, questions or contributions Contact Us
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County Information
Formed in 1869 from part of Socorro County
The county seat is Carrizozo and the largest city is Ruidoso.
It was once the largest county in the United States. In the late 1870s the so-called Lincoln County War broke out
between ranchers and the owners of the county's largest general store. William Bonney, better known as Billy the
Kid, became involved on the side of the ranchers after his friend and employer was killed. In the end, Bonney killed
the deputy that killed his friend, another deputy, and the county sheriff. Several other people were slain in the
conflict, which included the other leader of the rancher faction. His death ended the conflict. In 1878, the new
territorial governor, retired Union General Lew Wallace, offered an amnesty to the combatants in order to bring
a long-lasting truce between the factions. [source: Wikipedia.org]
Towns
Carrizozo
Villages
Capitan
* Corona
* Oscuro * Ruidoso * Ruidoso Downs * White
Oaks
Other Localities
Alto * Fort
Stanton * Glencoe * Hollywood * Hondo *
Lincoln
* Lon * Nogal
* San Patricio
1872 Map
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Online Data
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Biographies
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Church Histories / Records
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Website Updates:
Sept 2012: obits for MCDONALD, EDMISTON, FERRIS, SHAVER, HODO; marriage announcement for SPENCE-MCDONALD
June 2012: Death Records for March-May 2012
Apr 2012: Death Records |
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Helpful Addresses
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Lincoln County Clerk
PO Box 338
Carrizozo, NM 88301
PH: 505-648-2394
Fax: 505-648-2576
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Capitan Public Library
106 Lincoln Avenue
PO Box 1169
Capitan, NM 88316
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Ruidoso Public Library
PO Box 3539
Ruidoso, NM 88345
PH: 505-257-4335
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