Folsom Museum Online Researcher's Library

This page contains both links and information that may be helpful to research on families, businesses and the people that populated this area. Additional research documents are available through our Folsom Museum General Store.

Genealogy Links

The links below will take you to various files that were written from data extracted from various sources. Some are from old family records of the Folsom, Des Moines, and Capulin, New Mexico area. Others are from newspaper items, the Social Security Death Index, and burials in the Folsom area.

If you have further information on ancestors found in these pages, please let us know! We are missing marriage, birth and death dates from several family lines.

 

Folsom, New Mexico Birth & Death Records

1800s & 1900s

 A - B - C

D - E - F

G - H - J

K - L - M

N - O - P - Q

R - S - T

V - W - Y

 

Folsom Marriage Records

A-F

G-L

M-R

S-Z

Census Index Pages

1900 & 1910

United States Census

Folsom, Union County, New Mexico

Precinct No. 2 and No. 3

Households are organized alphabetically by head of household.

Census Index Pages

 

| A - B | C - D | E - F | G - H

| I - J | K - L |

| M - N | O - P | Q - R | S - T

| U - V | W - Z |

Folsom Newspapers

Newspapers Published in Folsom, New Mexico 1888 to 1915  

Newspaper

Language

Dates

Editor

Name Change
The Folsom Idea English 1888-April 1890 J. E. Curren Folsom Springs Metropolitan
The Folsom Metropolitan English April 1890-October 1890 Thomas W. McSchooler  
Folsom Springs Metropolitan English April 19, 1890-1895 Thomas W. McSchooler  
New Mexico American English / Spanish Nov 1889-Jan 1890    
Folsom Cricket English 1895-1897   Cricket (Clayton)
The Folsom Independent English 1897-1899    
Actual Settler English 1897-1905    
The Union County Stockman English Jan 1900-Jan 1902    
The Folsom Stockman English 1901    
Hispano-Americano English / Spanish 1902-1905    
La Epoca English / Spanish 1907-1908 G. W. Guyer Lance (Clayton)
Leader English 1909-1912    
La Cometa English / Spanish 1911-1915    

 

 

Folsom Post Office

Appointment Dates of Postmasters

                             Fairchild Drew        April 12,1883

                             Angelina C. Bayley    January 14 1888

                             William W. Boyle      May 11, 1889

                             Thomas W McSchooler   October 1,1891

                             Charles H. Nance      September 4, 1893

                             Elta Rankin           September 29, 1897

                             George W Guver        January 30, 1900

                             Jose M. Martinez      September 18, 1902

                             Frances N. Wilson     April 4, 1914

                             Lucille E. Goodrich   March 5, 1923

                             Ida N. White          October 20, 1927

                             Ida N. White          March 29, 1928

                             Virginia D. Wilson    January 14,1937

                             Betty Ann Short       February 24, 1961

                             Betty Ann Short       June 17, 1967

                             Michelle Phillips     February 27, 1987

                             Marla Newkirk         November 7, 1987

                             Alfred Newkirk        to present