Welcome to Otero County, New Mexico History and Genealogy Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This county is available for adoption! This website is part of the Genealogy Trails family. Our Group's 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. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to keeping Genealogy free and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. Learn more about joining our group as a county host and then CONTACT US DONATE YOUR DATA! Check your attics! Dust off your family scrapbooks! We're looking for DATA for this site!!! So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please send it to us and we'll make sure it gets posted online. If you have any comments, questions or data contributions, CONTACT US 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. County Information Founded: 30 January 1899 County Seat: Alamogordo Largest city: Alamogordo Indian tepees Mescalero Agency N. M. between 1890 and 1910? Two Native American Mescalero Apache women stand in their camp near the Mescalero Agency, New Mexico, includes tepees, a brush and canvas ramada (food preparation area,) a burro, a basket, and blankets City * Alamogordo Villages * Cloudcroft * Tularosa Census-designated places * Boles Acres * Holloman AFB * La Luz * Mescalero * Timberon Other localities * High Rolls * Mountain Park * Newman * Sunspot * Three Rivers *Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation  Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Stories Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Dec 2012: WW2 Casualties July 2012: Bio for THOMPSON June 2012: Death Records from April and May 2012, Marriage data for POTTER-OGLESBY Apr 2012: Death Records from 3/2012 Submit an Obituary with our automated form Search Our Sites Don't miss an Update! Join our Genealogy Trails Southwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Southwestern States of : Texas -- New Mexico -- Oklahoma -- Nevada -- Arizona   Visit the New Mexico State Site Surrounding Counties * Doña Ana County, NM – west * Sierra County, NM – northwest * Lincoln County, NM – north * Chaves County, NM – east * Eddy County, NM – east * Culberson County, Tex – southeast * Hudspeth County, Tex – south * El Paso County, Tex – southwest Visit Genealogy Trails National Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.