Bibliography
José Antonio Esquibel
Real Orden de Isabel la Católica
Cruz de Oficial
Genealogical researcher, historian, and author of articles and books
related to New Mexico’s Spanish colonial era history
José Antonio Esquibel
Real Orden de Isabel la Católica
Cruz de Oficial
Genealogical researcher, historian, and author of articles and books
related to New Mexico’s Spanish colonial era history
PUBLISHED WORKS, PAPERS PRESENTED, RESEARCH CONSULTATION, LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS, AND BLOGS
Updated March 2026
About the Writings of José Antonio Esquibel
Books
Christine Preston, Douglas Preston, and José Antonio Esquibel, The Royal Road El Camino Real from Mexico City to Santa Fe, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1998, 178pp.
José Antonio Esquibel and John B. Colligan, The Spanish Recolonization of New Mexico: An Account of the Families Recruited at Mexico City in 1693, Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1999, 447pp.
José Antonio Esquibel and Charles M. Carrillo, A Tapestry of Kinship: The Web of Influence among Escultores and Carpinteros in the Parish of Santa Fe, 1790-1850, LPD Press, Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, 2004.
France V. Scholes, Eleanor B. Adams, Marc Simmons and José Antonio Esquibel, Juan Domínguez de Mendoza: Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627-1693, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012, 455pp.
Monographs
Early Settlers of Santa Cruz de la Cañada, 1695-1715, Sierra Azul Mongraph, No. 1, 2015, privately published, PDF available online, 139pp.
Descendants of Hernán (I) Martín Serrano in New Mexico: An Authoritative Account of the First Five Generations, privately published, PDF available online, 42pp.
Sánchez de la Barrera: The History and Genealogy of a Northern Frontier Family, privately published, 1995, 2005, and 2014, 100pp.
Remembrance/Recordación: The Spanish Colonists that Arrived in Santa Fe, 23 June 1693, Genealogical Society of Spanish America, Denver, 1994, 43pp.
Anthology Contributions
"Sacramental Records and the Preservation of New Mexico Family Genealogies from the Colonial Era to the Present," in Seeds of Struggle, Harvest of Faith: Papers of the Catholic Cuarto Centennial Historical Conference, LPD Press, Albuquerque, 1998, 27-41.
"Mexico City to Santa Fe: Spanish Pioneers on the Camino Real, 1693-94," El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, Santa Fe, 1999, Vol. 2, 59-65.
The Formative Era of New Mexico's Colonial Population, 1693-1700”, in Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos in-between Worlds, Claire Farago and Donna Pierce with Marianne Stoller and others, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
“Baltasar Romero and Francisca de Góngora,” in Aquí se Comienza: A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque, New Mexico Genealogical Society, Albuquerque, 2007.
“Pedro Durán y Chaves and Doña Juana de Montoya,” José Antonio Esquibel and Patryka Durán y Chaves, in Aquí se Comienza: A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque, New Mexico Genealogical Society, Albuquerque, 2007.
“Possible Founders,” Gloria M. Valencia y Valdez and José Antonio Esquibel, in Aquí se Comienza: A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque, New Mexico Genealogical Society, Albuquerque, 2007.
“Alliances through Marriage and Compadrazgo: Strengthening Family and Social Bonds among the Founding Families of Alburquerque,” in Aquí se Comienza: A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque, New Mexico Genealogical Society, Albuquerque, 2007.
“A Measure of Fortitude and Determination,” Aqui se Comienza: A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque, New Mexico Genealogical Society, Albuquerque, 2007.
“Thirty-eight Adobe Houses: The Villa de Santa Fe in the Seventeenth Century, 1608-1699,” in All Trails Lead to Santa Fe: An Anthology Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1610, Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, 2010, 109-128.
“Alcaldes and Mayors of Santa Fe, 1613-2008,” Albert J. Gallegos and José Antonio Esquibel, in All Trails Lead to Santa Fe: An Anthology Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1610, Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, 2010, 403-428.
“Devotion to La Virgen de Guadalupe in Seventeenth-century New Mexico,” in Cultural Convergence in New Mexico: Honoring William Wroth, Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2021, 75-84.
Book Introductions and Forewords
Introduction: The Santa Fe Presidio Soldiers: Their Donation to the American Revolution, compiled by Henrietta Martínez Christmas, Albuquerque: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 2006.
Foreword: The People of El Valle: A History of the Spanish settlers in the San Luis Valley, Olibama López Tushar, 4th edition, Olibama López Tushar, Pueblo: El Escritorio Press, 2007, vii-ix.
Introduction: Por constancia/So that it may be validated: Family History in the Río Abajo, by Andrés Armijo, Los Ranchos: Rio Grande Books, 2014.
Introduction: The Lucero de Godoy Family of New Mexico: From the Founder Maese de Campo Pedro Lucero de Godoy Through the Seventh Generation, Gerald H. Peterson and Mary Chacon Peterson, Albuquerque: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 2018, ix-xxvii.
Editor
Gloria Valencia y Valdez, José Antonio Esquibel, Robert D. Martínez, and Francisco Sisnerors, editors, Aquí se Comienza— A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque, New Mexico Genealogical Society, Albuquerque, 2007.
France Scholes, Marc Simmons, and José Antonio Esquibel, eds. Eleaonor B. Adams, trans., Juan Domínguez de Mendoza: Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627-1693, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
“The Beginnings of the Spanish Settlement of the El Paso District,” by Anne E. Hughes, edited and augmented by José Antonio Esquibel, El Farolito, Part 1 in El Farolito, Spring 2013, Vo. 16, No. 3, 31-44; Part 2 in El Farolito, Spring 2014 – Vol. 17, No. 1, 11-28; Part 3 in El Farolito, Summer 2014, Vol. 17, No. 3, 27-40; Part 4 in El Farolito, Fall 2014, Vol. 17, No. 4, 25-44; Part 4 in El Farolito, Spring 2015, Vo. 18, No. 1, 22-32.
“Vargas’ 1693 Recruits for the Resettlement of New Mexico,” Part 1-4, by John B. Colligan, El Farolito, Vol. 15, No. 2, Summer 2012, 3-14; Part 2 in El Farolito, Vol. 15, No. 3, Fall 2012, 3-17; El Farolito, Vol. 15, No. 4, Winter 2012, 3-15; El Farolito, Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring, 2013, 8-23.
“Augmenting Prenuptial Investigation Data from ‘New Mexico Roots, Ltd.’ by John B. Colligan, El Farolito, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2009, 29-33; Part 2 in El Farolito, Vol. 12, No. 2, Summer 2009, 27-34; Part 3 in El Farolito, Vol. 12, # 3, Fall 2009, 31-38; Part 4 in El Farolito, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 2010, 19-26; Part 5, El Farolito, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 2010, 24-28; Part 6, Fall 2010, Vol. 13, No. 3, 35-37; and Part 7, Winter 2010, Vol. 13, No. 4, 28-36.
Book Reviews
Lomelí, Defying the Inquisition in Colonial New Mexico, The Catholic Historical Review, Volume 93, Number 3, July 2007, pp. 701-702 (Review).
Linda Tigges, editor, and J. Richard Salazar, transcriber and translator Spanish Colonial Women and the Law: Complaints, Lawsuits, and Criminal Behavior, Documents from the Spanish Colonial Archives of New Mexico, 1697 – 1749, Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2016 (Review).
Elinore M. Barret, The Spanish Colonial Landscape of New Mexico, 1598-1680, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012 (Review).
Lois Gerber Franks, J. Frank Torres, Crusader and Judge: An Oral History, Santa Fe; Sunstone Press, 2007, Review in El Farolito, Vol. 10, No. 3, Fall 2007.
Published Articles
"Esquibel Families of Eighteenth Century New Mexico," New Mexico Genealogist, Journal of the New Mexico Genealogical Society, Vol. 31, No. 1, March 1992: 20-28; Vol. 31, No. 2, June 1992: 50-58; Vol. 31, No. 3, September 1992: 81-89; Vol. 32, No. 1, March 1993; and Vol. 32, No. 2, June 1993: 40-52.
"A Line of Descent from Don Vicente de Zaldívar y Oñate," Nuestra Raíces, Journal of the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America, Vol. 4, No.1, March 1992: 40-52.
"Mexico City Roots: Baptismal Records of Miguel de Quintana Valdés Altamirano y Cervantes and José de Quintana Valdés Altamirano y Cervantes," Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1992: 41-3.
"Don Diego Vásquez Borrego: A Biography," Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer 1993: 54-8.
"A Pioneering Family: Immediate Descendants of Don Diego Vásquez Borrego," Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer 1993, 59-64.
"The Colonists Recruited at Mexico City by the Viceroy in 1693," Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 5, No. 3, Fall 1993: 86, 90-91, 94-5.
"Doña Eufemia, La Valerosa: The Great Martesia of Oñate's Colony," Herencia, Journal of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico, Vol. 2, Issue 2, April 1994: 19-28.
"Abrego y Gutiérrez de Baeza: A Sixteenth Century Spanish Frontier Family," Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research (SHHAR) Genealogical Journal, Vol. I, 1994: 27-36.
"Lines of Descent from Don Alonso XI, Rey de Castilla y León, to Don Ruy Díaz de Mendoza y Arellano," SHHAR Genealogical Journal, Vol. I, 1994: 27-36.
"Marriage Record of Blas de la Garza and Teresa Guerrero," SHHAR Genealogical Journal, Vol. I, 1994: 83-85.
"Blea/Díaz Family," Herencia, Vol. 2, Issue 3, July 1994: 2-10.
"Just Who Was the Wife of Gerónimo Márquez?," Herencia, Vol. 2, Issue 1, April 1994: 36.
"Genealogical Essays on Three Seventeenth Century New Mexico Families: Paredes, López de Gracia, and Manzanares," Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1994: 6-13 ('Introduction and A Suggestive Inquiry into the Ancestry of María de Paredes'); Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1994: 92-102 ('López de Gracia: Clarifying Familial Relations' and 'Some Hints About Manzanares Roots in Colonial New Mexico').
"Addendum to 'Don Diego Vásquez Borrego: A Biography," Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1994: 90-91.
"Esquibel Families of Nineteenth Century New Mexico, Part I: Descendents of Juan Jose Esquibel and María Rafaela Martín," Herencia, Vol. 2, Issue 4, October 1994: 30-43.
"Sánchez de la Barrera: The History and Genealogy of a Northern Frontier Family, Parts I and II," SHHAR Genealogical Journal, Vol. II, 1995: 23-38.
"Baptismal and Marriage Records of Nuestra Señora de las Nieves, Nueva Galicia, 1586-1592," SHHAR Genealogical Journal, Vol. II, 1995: 69-82.
"Los Borrego de San Juan: Luis Borrego and His Descendents," Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 7, No. 3, Fall 1995: 116-31.
"Sánchez de la Barrera: The History and Genealogy of a Northern Frontier Family, Parts III, IV, and V," SHHAR Genealogical Journal, Vol. III, 1996: 1-35.
"The Family of Capitán Don Alberto del Canto, Founder of Saltillo," SHHAR Genealogical Journal, Vol. III, 1996: 67-70.
"Ana's Story," Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer 1996: 60-3.
"Mexico City to Santa Fe: Spanish Pioneers on the Camino Real, 1693-94," El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, Santa Fe, 1999, Vol. 2, 59-65.
"The Ancestry of Buenaventura de Esquibel, 1570-1684," Part 1 in Herencia, Vol. 4, Issue 2, April 1996: 10-24; and Part 2 in Herencia, Vol. 4, Issue 3, July 1996.
"Some Common Spanish Ancestors of Colonial New Mexico," La Herencia del Norte, Vol. IX, Fall, 1996: 23.
"List of Residents Traveling from New Mexico, 1712-1716," New Mexico Genealogists, Vol. 35, No. 3, September 1996: 75-81; re-published in El Farolito, Vol. 17, No. 4, Winter 2014, 2-12.
"On the Identity of Doña Ana de Mendoza (Supposed Wife of Gerónimo Márquez)," New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 35, No. 3, September 1996: 74.
"Clarification on the Marriage Relationship of Doña Ana de Mendoza (Supposed Wife of Gerónimo Márquez)," Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 8, No. 4, Winter 1996: 144-47.
"Descendants of Gregorio López and Juana Romero de Medina, 1745-1860: Santa Cruz, Quemado, Cundiyo, Embudo, Picurís, Chamisal, Taos and Mora," Part I, Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 8, No. 4, Winter 1996: 168-78.
"Descendants of Gregorio López and Juana Romero de Medina, 1745-1860: Santa Cruz, Quemado, Cundiyo, Embudo, Picurís, Chamisal, Taos and Mora," Part II, Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 1997: 66-79.
"The Bueno Family of New Mexico, 1751-1850," Herencia, Vol. 5, Issue 3, July 1997: 6-19.
"The Jewish-Converso Ancestry of Doña Beatriz de Estrada, Wife of Don Francisco Vásquez de Coronado," Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 9, No. 4, Winter 1997.
"The Paternal Ancestry of Don Alonso de Estrada, Tesorero y Gobernador de Nueva España, and the Revised Genealogy of the Sosa Albornoz Family," Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 1998: 34-38. Also published in Genealogical Journal: Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research, Vol. IV 1998, 1-22.
"Josefa de Pas Bustillos y Ontiveros: Matriarch of the Bustos Family of Colonial New Mexico," Part 1, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 37, No. 1, March 1998: 19-24; and Part 2, No. 2, June 1998: 71-75.
“A Brief Description of Hidalguía,” Herencia (quarterly journal of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico), Vol. 6, Issue 2, April 1998.
“The Bueno Family Genealogy Revisited,” Herencia (quarterly journal of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico), Vol. 6, Issue 2, April 1998.
"Sacramental Records and the Preservation of New Mexico Family Genealogies from the Colonial Era to the Present," in Seeds of Struggle, Harvest of Faith: Papers of the Catholic Cuarto Centennial Historical Conference, LPD Press, Albuquerque, 1998, 27-41.
"Tragedy Among Oñate's Colony: A Chronicle of the Sosa Albornoz Family," Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 1998: 3-8, and Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer 1998.
"Founding Mothers of New Mexico: The Pérez de Bustillo Women," El Farolito (Journal of the GSHA/Olibama López Tushar Hispanic Research Center, Denver, CO), Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 1998: 15-18.
"Papers of Merits and Services of 17th-Century New Mexico Citizens," Herencia (quarterly journal of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico), Vol. 6, Issue 3, October 1998.
"New Light on the Jewish-converso Ancestry of Don Juan de Oñate: A Research Note," in Colonial Latin American Historical Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, Spring 1998: 175-190.
"Remembering El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro," in the January 1999 issue of Mirage, the magazine of the University of New Mexico Alumni Association.
"Gente del Camino Real de la Tierra Adentro: Additional Material from The Royal Road," in El Farolito (Journal of the GSHA/Olibama López Tushar Hispanic Research Center, Denver, CO), Vol. 1, No, 4, Winter 1998: 12-16.
"Mexico City to Santa Fe: Spanish Pioneers on the Camino Real, 1693-94," El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, Santa Fe, 1999, Vol. 2, 59-65.
"Beyond Origins of New Mexico Families: The Web Site, Volume 1,” Part 1 in Herencia, Vol. 7, Issue 1, January 1999, 6-20; and Part 2 Herencia, Vol. 7, Issue 2, April 1999.
“Consider the El Paso del Norte Connection,” Herencia, Vol. 7, Issue 2, April 1999.
"People as Vessels of Culture: The Oñate Expedition," El Farolito, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1999: 18-24.
"Last Will and Testament of Elena Gallegos, 1731," El Farolito, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1999: 15-17.
"The Baca-Ortiz Family and Don Francisco Pacheco de Córdoba y Bocanegra: Otra Vez," El Farolito, Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 1999: 5-6.
"Correction to 'The Last Will and Testament of Elena Gallegos, 1731,'" El Farolito, Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 1999: 8.
"Montes Vigil Record of Passage to the New World, 1609-1611," (English Translation), El Farolito, Vol. 2, No. 4, Winter 1999: 7-8.
"The Robledo Family: Records of Passage to the Americas, 1574," El Farolito, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2000: 6-7.
"Researching Family Roots of Northeastern Mexico," El Farolito, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2000: 24-29.
"New Mexico Colonial Patriots and the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution," New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 39, No. 1, March 2000: 25-26.
"Hints of the Jewish Ancestry in the Góngora Family of Colonial New Mexico," Nuestra Raíces, Spring 2000.
"The Will of Don Ignacio de Roybal y Torrado," (Summary and Translation), El Farolito, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 2000: 9-18.
"The Leyva-Nevares Heredia Extended Family of Nueva Vizcaya, 1659-1710," Part I, El Farolito, Vol. 3, No. 3, Fall 2000: 5-15, Part II, El Farolito, Vol. 3, No. 4, Winter 2000, 21-26, and Part III, El Farolito, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2001, 17-21.
"The Probable Kinship Between the Ortiz Family of New Mexico and Governor Don Diego de Vargas," El Farolito, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2001, 5-10, and re-published in El Farolito, Spring 2014, Vol. 17, No. 1, 35-40.
"The Moya Family Records of Passage to New Spain, 1599-1600," Herencia, Vol. 9, Issues 2, April 2001, 5-15.
"The Ancestry of Ignacio de Aragón," El Farolito, Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 2001, 13-23.
“Records of the Spanish Inquisition: A Critical Source for the Genealogy and History of New Mexico's Colonial Families," El Farolito, Vol. 4, No. 3, Fall 2001, 5-11.
"Francisco de Madrid II: New Genealogical and Historical Information from Seventeenth-Century Inquisition Records," El Farolito, Vol. 4, Vol. 4, No. 3, Fall 2001, 11-14.
"Bernalillo Census: 1806-1807," New Mexico Genealogist, Vo. 41, No. 1, March 2002, 3-15.
“Beginning Your Family Genealogy Research,” Part I, El Farolito, Vol. 5. No. 1, Spring 2002, 5-10; Part II, El Farolito, Vol. 5. No. 2, Summer 2002, 21-24; Part III, El Farolito, Vol. 5. No. 2, Fall 2002 28-30; and Part IV, El Farolito, Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2002.
"Family Record Book of Juan Andrés Mascareñas, La Sevilleta de la Joya, 1805-1845," Herencia, Vo. 10, Issue 2, April 2002, 7-17; re-published in El Farolito, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 2016, 2-13.
"Pintores Sin Obras: Thirteen Painters of New Mexico Without Known Works, 1659-1768,” Tradición Revista: The Journal of Contemporary and Traditional Spanish Colonial Art and Culture, Vol. 7, Issue 2, Summer 2002, 76-81. (www.nmsantos.com).
“Juan Luis de Herrera and the Soldiers of the Santa Fe Presidio: Patriots of the American Revolution,” in La Verdad con Orgullo, newsletter of the New Mexican Hispanic Preservation League, Vol. 4, No. 7, July 2002; and in El Farolito, Vol. 5, No. 3, Fall 2002, 5-7.
“Confirming the Identity of the Santo Niño Santero: José Manuel Benavides, Escultor, ca. 1798-1852,” co-authored with Charlie Carrillo, Tradición Revista: The Journal of Contemporary and Traditional Spanish Colonial Art and Culture, Vol. 7, Issue 3, Fall 2002. (www.nmsantos.com).
“The Romero Family of Seventeenth-Century New Mexico,” Part I, Herencia, Vol. 11, Issue 1, January 2003, 1-30; updated and re-published in El Farolito, Vol. 18, No. 3, Fall 2015, 2-40.
“The Romero Family of Seventeenth-Century New Mexico,” Part II, Herencia, Vol. 11, Issue 3, July 2003, 2-20; updated and re-published in El Farolito, Vol. 18, No. 4, Winter 2015, 2-32.
“The Artisan Families of Mexico City that Settled New Mexico in 1694,” Tradición Revista: The Journal of Contemporary and Traditional Spanish Colonial Art and Culture, Vol. 8, Issue 1, Spring 2003, 31-36. This article is featured on this web page: http://nmsantos.com/cgilocal/shop.pl/SID=1083660471.29936/page=ArtisanFamilies.htm.
“ ’Esta Gran Familia’: The Genealogy of the Lucero de Godoy Family of Mexico City,” El Farolito, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 2003, 5-21; updated and re-published in El Farolito, Fall 2013, Vol. 16, No 3, 3-30.
“The Sánchez de Iñigo Puzzle: New Genealogical Considerations,” El Farolito, Vol. 6, No. 3, Winter 2003, 8-17.
“The Will of Francisco Afán de Ribera,” Robert D. Martínez and José Antonio Esquibel, Herencia, Vol. 12, Issue 1, January 2004, 20-28.
“Parientes” (“Fifty Years of ‘Origins of New Mexico Families’), column in La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 43, Summer 2004, 48.
“Correction to ‘A Sephardim Ancestry,’ Patricia Sanchez Rau, José Antonio Esquibel, and Ronaldo Miera, Herencia, Vol. 12, Issue 3, January 2004.
“Parientes” (‘The Pioneering Spirit of Los Trujillo’), column in La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 43, Fall 2004, 64-65.
“Parientes” (‘Los Gallegos: Three Centuries of a Frontier Family’), column in La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 44, Winter 2004, 52.
“Eulogy for Don Diego de Vargas Zapata Ponce de León, Governor of New Mexico, 1691-1697, 1703-1704, La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 44, Winter 2004, 53.
“The Zaldívar, Díaz de Mendoza, and Oñate Families, 1450-1650: New Genealogical Findings,” Part I, Herencia (Journal of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico), Vol. 12, Issue 3, July 2004, 2-16. Also published in Los Bexareños Genealogical Register, Vol. XXI, No. 4, December 2004, 10-22.
“The Zaldívar, Díaz de Mendoza, and Oñate Families, 1450-1650: New Genealogical Findings,” Part II, Herencia, Vol. 12, Issue 4, October 2004, 2-11. Also published in Los Bexareños Genealogical Register, Vol. XXII, No. 1, March 2005, 1-10.
“Parientes: The Gutiérrez Family,” column in La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 45, Spring 2005, 44.
“Parientes: The Madrid Family,” column in La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 46, Summer 2005, 47.
“Los Argüelles, A.D. 1350 – A.D. 1600: Ancestors of the Montes Vigil Family of New Mexico,” co-authored with Marietta Vigil Gonzales and Juan Díaz Álvarez, in Herencia, Vol. 13, Issue 3, July 2005.
“Parientes: The Pacheco-Ortiz Family,” column in La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 47, Fall 2005, 46-47.
“Pariente: The Roybal Family,” column in La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 48, Winter 2005, 42-43.
"The Formative Era of New Mexico's Colonial Population, 1693-1700”, in Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos in-between Worlds, Claire Farago and Donna Pierce with Marianne Stoller and others, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
“Possible Founders,” Gloria M. Valencia y Valdez and José Antonio Esquibel, in Aquí se Comienza: A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque, New Mexico Genealogical Society, Albuquerque, 2007, 15-26.
“Eras of New Mexico History,” José Antonio Esquibel and Gloria M. Valencia y Valdez, in Aquí se Comienza: A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque, New Mexico Genealogical Society, Albuquerque, 2007, 31-36.
“Alliances through Marriage and Compadrazgo: Strengthening Family and Social Bonds among the Founding Families of Alburquerque,” in Aquí se Comienza: A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque, New Mexico Genealogical Society, Albuquerque, 2007, 37-46.
“Pedro Durán y Chaves and Doña Juana de Montoya,” José Antonio Esquibel and Patryka Durán y Chaves, in Aquí se Comienza: A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque, New Mexico Genealogical Society, Albuquerque, 2007, 179-228.
“Baltasar Romero and Francisca de Góngora,” in Aqui se Comienza: A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque, New Mexico Genealogical Society, Albuquerque, 2007, 285 - 400.
“A Measure of Fortitude and Determination,” Aqui se Comienza: A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque, New Mexico Genealogical Society, Albuquerque, 2007, 533-542.
"Ortiz Family Genealogical Research and New Records for the Ortiz Family of Mexico City," in El Farolito, Vol. 8, No. 4, Winter 2005.
“Parientes” (‘The Rael Family’), column in La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 49, Spring 2006, 39.
The Tupatú and Vargas Accords: Orchestrating Peace in a Time of Uncertainty, 1692-1696,” El Palacio (magazine of the Museum of New Mexico), Vol. 111, No. 1, Spring 2006, 16-19.
"Deer for the King and a Journey to Spain: The Commission of Don Francisco Trebol Navarro, 1779-1785,” Herencia, Vol. 14, Issue 2, April 2006, 2-15.
“Parientes” (‘Founding Mothers of Alburquerque’), column in La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 50, Summer 2006, 40.
“Roots to Branches: The Soltero Ruiz de Castañeda Ancestry of Gregoria Ruiz, Wife of Antonio de Silva,” Herencia, Vol. 14, Issue 3, July 2006, 2-10.
“Aragón and Esquibel DNA Research Findings and the New Mexico DNA Project,” Damien Aragón and José Antonio Esquibel, Herencia, Vol. 14, Issue 3, July 2006, 29-43.
“Parientes” (‘The Romero Family’), column in La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 51, Fall 2006, 56.
“The Palace of the Governors in the Seventeenth Century,” El Palacio (magazine of the Museum of New Mexico), Vol. 111, No. 3, Fall 2006, 24-29.
“Parientes (‘Vásquez de Lara Family’), in La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, in Volume 52, Winter 2006, 39.
“Roots to Branches: The Soltero Ruiz de Castañeda Family: An Update,” Herencia, Vol. 15, Issue 1, January 2007, 27-29.
“Parientes” (‘Mestizaje’), in La Herencia: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future, Volume 53, Spring 2007, 50.
“Medieval Hispano Surnames,” El Farolito, Vol. 10, No. 1 Spring 2007.
“U.S. Military Services and Bounty Land Documents” The Service Record of Bernardo Martín, 1848,” El Farolito, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer 2007, 9-16.
“Parientes” (‘Quintana’), in La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 54, Summer 2007, 45.
“Parientes— Founders of the Villa de Santa Fe #1,” La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 55, Fall 2007, 44-45.
“Research in the Western History and Genealogy Room of Denver Public Library,” El Farolito, Vol. 10, No. 3, Fall 2007.
“Parientes— Founders of the the Villa de Santa Fe #2: The Martín Serrano Family,” La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 56, Winter 2007, 42-45.
“Parientes— Founders of the the Villa de Santa Fe #3: The Madrid Family,” La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 57, Spring 2008, 46-49.
“Bustamante Family Lineage, 1500s-1790: A Preliminary Account,” El Farolito, Vol. 11, No 1, Spring 2008.
“Santa Fe Founding Families: Hernán Martín Serrano and Doña Ines, Part I,” El Farolito, Vol. 11, No. 2, Summer 2008, 5-13.
“Fort Garland 150th Anniversary, El Farolito, Vol. 11, No. 2, Summer 2008.
“Parientes— Founders of the the Villa de Santa Fe #4: The Olguín Family,” La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 58, Summer 2008, 40-41.
“Parientes— Founders of the the Villa de Santa Fe #5: The Griego-Bernal Family,” La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 59, Fall 2008, 43-45.
“Santa Fe Founding Families: Hernán Martín Serrano and Doña Ines, Part II,” El Farolito, Vol. 11, No. 3, Fall 2008.
"Santa Fe Founding Families: Hernán Martín Serrano and Doña Ines, Part III,” El Farolito, Vol. 11, No. 4, Winter 2008, 5-16.
“Parientes— Founders of the the Villa de Santa Fe #6: The Gómez Robledo Family,” La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 60, Winter 2008, 36-37.
“Parientes— Founders of the Villa de Santa Fe #7: The Varela Family,” La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 61, Spring 2009, 35-36.
“Founders of the Villa de Santa Fe: Francisco de Madrid, Part I,” El Farolito, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2009, 5-20; re-published in Herencia, Vo. 29, Issue 1, January 2021, 5-17.
“Beyond ‘Origins of New Mexico Families: Anaya-Biana, Aragón, Casados, López Holguín, De la Peña, Rodríguez, Rodríguez Salazar, Silva-Ruiz de Castañeda,” Herencia, Vol. 17, Issue 2, April 2009, 2-12.
“Founders of the Villa de Santa Fe: Francisco de Madrid, Part II,” El Farolito, Vol. 12, No. 2, Summer 2009, 5-16; re-published in Herencia, Vol. 29, Issue 2, April 2021, 27-40.
“Parientes— Founders of the Villa de Santa Fe #8: The Rodríguez Bellido Family,” La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 62, Summer 2009, 39-41.
“Parientes— Founders of the Villa de Santa Fe #9: The Durán y Chaves Family,” La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 63, Fall 2009, 31-33.
“Founders of the Villa de Santa Fe: Francisco de Madrid, Part III,” El Farolito, Vol. 12, No. 3, Fall 2009, 5-25; re-published in Herencia, Vol. 29, Issue 3, July 2021, 2-20.
“The Zaldívar, Díaz de Mendoza, and Oñate Families, 1450-1650: New Genealogical Findings,” Part III, Herencia (Journal of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico), Vol. 18, Issue 2, April 2010, 2-16. Also published in Los Bexareños Genealogical Register, Vol. XXVI, September 2009, 1-18.
“Parientes— Founders of the Villa de Santa Fe #10: Early Residents,” La Herencia: Our Past Our Present, Our Future, Volume 64, Winter 2009, 31-33.
“Founders of the Villa de Santa Fe: Francisco de Madrid, Part IV,” El Farolito, Vol. 12, No. 4, Winter 2009, 5-30; re-published in Herencia, Vol. 29, Issue 4, October 2021, 3-18 and in Herencia, Vol. 30, Issue 2, April 2022, 2-29.
“Thirty-eight Adobe Houses: The Villa de Santa Fe in the Seventeenth Century, 1608-1699,” in All Trails Lead to Santa Fe: An Anthology Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1610, Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, 2010, 109-128.
“Alcaldes and Mayors of Santa Fe, 1613-2008,” Albert J. Gallegos and José Antonio Esquibel, in All Trails Lead to Santa Fe: An Anthology Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1610, Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, 2010, 403-428.
“Founders of the Villa de Santa Fe: Juan López Holguín and Catalina de Villanueva, Part 1,” El Farolito, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 2010, 5-17.
“One of Our Own– Generations Forgotten, Remembered Today: Fray Angélico Chávez and ‘Origins of New Mexico Families’,” in El Palacio: Art, History and Culture of the Southwest, Spring 2010, No. 1, 33-34.
“López Holguín Genealogy Chart,” El Farolito, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 2010, 21.
“A Case of Mistaken Identities: Pedro Gómez Durán and Pedro Durán y Chaves,” Herencia, Vol. 18, Issue 3, July 2010.
“The Longoria Family Ancestry of Asturias,” in Los Bexareños Genealogical Register, Vol. XXVII, September 2010, 165-172.
“Founders of the Villa de Santa Fe: Juan López Holguín and Catalina de Villanueva, Part 2,” El Farolito, Vol. 13, No. 3, Fall 2010, 5-19.
“Santa Cruz de la Cañada: Marriage Records, 1695-1726, Part 1,” El Farolito, Vol. 13, No. 3, Fall 2010, 22-27.
“Founders of the Villa de Santa Fe: Juan López Holguín and Catalina de Villanueva, Part 3,” El Farolito, Vol. 13, No. 4, Winter 2010, 9-16.
“Santa Cruz de la Cañada: Marriage Records, 1695-1726, Part 2,” El Farolito, Vol. 13, No. 2, Winter 2010, 20-26.
"Generations Forgotten, Remembered Today: Fray Angélico Chávez and Origins of New Mexico Families," 2011 (published online).
“Founders of the Villa de Santa Fe: Juan López Holguín and Catalina de Villanueva, Part 4,” El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 2011, 10-14.
“Revised Trujillo Genealogy, 1626-1720,” Herencia, Vol. 19, Issue 2, April 2011, 1-10.
“Trujillo Family Genealogy Revised, 1626-1730,” El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 2011, 18-26; re-published in Herencia, Issue 3, July 2022.
“Santa Cruz de la Cañada: Marriage Records, 1695-1726, Part 3,” El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 2011, 29-33.
“1707 Census of Santa Cruz de la Cañada,” El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 2011, 34-37.
“Founders of the Villa de Santa Fe: Juan López Holguín and Catalina de Villanueva, Part 5,” El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer 2011, 3-18.
“Families of Mexico City Living in the Jurisdiction of La Villa Nueva de Santa Cruz de los Españoles Méxicanos, 1704,” El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer 2011, 19-20.
“Santa Cruz de la Cañada: Marriage Records, 1695-1726, Part 4,” El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer 2011, 21-25.
“Conejos Land Grant, Part 1” El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer 2011, 30-36.
“Trujillo Family Genealogy Revised, Part 1” (Revised Revision), El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 3, Fall 2011, 5-11.
“Río de los Conejos Grantees, 1843,” El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 3, Fall 2011, 12-16.
“Conejos Land Grant, Part 2,” El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 3, Fall 2011, 17-22.
“1712 Tool Distribution: Jurisdiction of Santa Cruz de la Cañada,” El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 3, Fall 2011, 25-30.
“Santa Cruz de la Cañada: Marriage Records, 1695-1726, Part 5,” El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 3, Fall 2011, 31-34.
“Hernando Martín Serrano and Josefa de la Asención González,” El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 3, Fall 2011, 35-36.
“Descendants of Hernán Martín Serrano in New Mexico,” Part 1, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 51, No. 4, 159-171; and Part 2 in New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 52, No. 1, March 2013, 11-25.
"The Velasco/Velásquez Family of Durango and New Mexico," Herencia, Vol. 20, Issue 2, July 2012, 2-10.
"Diligencias Matrimoniales: Catalogue of Additional Prenuptial Investigations of New Mexico Couples: A Compilation,” El Farolito, Vol. 15, No. 3, Fall 2012, 32-40.
“Burial Record of Bernabé Márquez, 1709, Extracted,” El Farolito, Vol. 15, No. 3, Fall 2012, 40.
“Ancestry of the Moreno de Trujillo and Ruiz de Aguilar Families, Early 1400s to 1700,” José Antonio Esquibel and Robert D. Martínez, El Farolito, Vol. 15, No. 4, Winter 2012, 18-44.
“Romo de Vera Ancestry,” Part 1, Herencia, Vol. 20, No. 4, December 2012, 41-45; Part 2 in Herencia, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2013, 20-28.
“Juan Domínguez de Mendoza: Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627-1693,” Marc Simmons and José Antonio Esquibel, paper presented at the 2012 New Mexico Statehood History Conference, May 5, 2012, Santa Fe, and published in Herencia, Vo. 21, Issue 2, April 2013, 42-50.
“Villalpando Family Origins,” Robert D. Martínez and José Antonio Esquibel, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 51, No. 4, December 2012, 182-191.
“The Genealogy of Luis Gallegos de Terrazas and Pasquala de Rueda,” José Antonio Esquibel, Marietta Vigil Gonzales and Albert J. Gallegos, Part 1, Herencia, Vol. 21, Issue 1, January 2013, 29-52.
“Epilogue to Vargas’ Recruits by José Antonio Esquibel New Mexico Wills and Settlements of Estates, 1704-1844, El Farolito, Spring 2013, Vol. 16, No. 1, 17-24.
“New Mexico Wills and Settlements of Estates, 1704-1844,” (compilation), El Farolito, Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 2013, 25-39.
“Abeyta Family Genealogy: First Four Generations,” Part 1, El Farolito, Vol. 16, No. 2, Summer 2013, 9-44.
“Mexico City Roots: Jirón de Tejeda, Leyva y Mendoza, and Afán de Ribera Families,” José Antonio Esquibel and Robert D. Martinez, El Farolito, Vol. 16, No. 2, Summer 2013, 17-43; re-published in Herencia Part 1, Vol. 25, Issue 3, July 2017; Part 2, Vol. 25, Issue 4, October 2017; Part 3, Vol. 26, Issue 1, January 2018; Part 4, Vol. 26, Issue 2, April 2018, 5-19.
“Francisco Lorenzo Casados and Ana Pacheco y Lemos,” El Farolito, Vol. 16, No. 2, Summer 2013, 44.
“The Genealogy of Luis Gallegos de Terrazas and Pasquala de Rueda,” José Antonio Esquibel, Marietta Vigil Gonzales and Albert J. Gallegos, Part 2, Herencia, Vol. 21, Issue 3, July 2013, 24-51.
Garcia Jurado: From the Jurisdiction of Salvatierra to Pueblo de los Ángeles to New Mexico, 1640s to 1694,” Herencia, Vo. 21, Issue 4, October 2013, 49-58.
“Abeyta Family Genealogy: First Four Generations,” Part 2, José Antonio Esquibel and Henrietta Martinez Christmas, El Farolito, Vol. 16, No. 4, Winter 2013, 9-30.
“Last Will and Testament of Captain Antonio de Beytia,” translation by I.L. Chaves, Claribel Fischer, and José Antonio Esquibel, El Farolito, Vol. 16, No. 4, Winter 2013, 31-36.
“The Genealogy of Luis Gallegos de Terrazas and Pasquala de Rueda,” José Antonio Esquibel, Marietta Vigil Gonzales and Albert J. Gallegos, Part 3, Herencia, Vol. 22, Issue 1, January 2014, 2-34.
“Baptismal Records of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Rio del Norte, 1662-1680: A Comparison,” John B. Colligan and José Antonio Esquibel, El Farolito, Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring 2014, 29-34.
“Diego de Vera and Doña María de Abendaño,” Herencia, Vol. 22, Issue 2, April 2014, 12-16.
“The Peña Family of Mexico City: Research Findings,” Herencia, Vol. 23, Issue 2, April 2015, 2-20.
“Diego Montoya and Josefa de Hinojos: New Genealogical Findings,” Part 1, El Farolito, Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring 2015, 10-21.
“Diego Montoya and Josefa de Hinojos: New Genealogical Findings,” Part 2, El Farolito, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 2015, 2-27.
“Salvador Montoya: Last Will and Testament, 1727,” El Farolito, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 2015, 28-35.
“Felipe Montoya and Maria de Paredes: Genealogical Evidence,” El Farolito, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 2015, 36-43.
“Montoya-Zamora: Spanish and Indian Origins,” El Farolito, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 2015, 44.
“Martín Serrano Family Genealogy and a Y-DNA Study,” José Antonio Esquibel and Miguel A. Tórrez, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 55, No. 3, September 2016, 137-146.
“The Vega y Coca Family of Mexico City,” José Antonio Esquibel and Robert D. Martinez, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 55, No. 1, December 2016, 9-12.
“Vásquez de Lara Family Ancestry: Record of Passage Found, 1571,” El Farolito, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 2016, 14-20.
“Origins of New Mexico Families: Biography of an Influential Book,” El Farolito, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 2016, 21-29.
"Records of the Spanish Inquisition: A Critical Source for Genealogy and History of New Mexico’s Colonial Families,” El Farolito, Spring 2016, No. 1, 30-36.
“Blood Oaths: Piety and Privilege Collide in Juan de Oñate’s Jewish-converso Lineage,” El Palacio: Art, History & Culture of the Southwest, Fall 2016, 60-67.
“Lucero de Godoy Family of Mexico City and New Mexico in the 17th-century,” in The Lucero de Godoy Family of New Mexico: From the Founder Maese de Campo Pedro Lucero de Godoy Through the Seventh Generation, Gerald H. Peterson and Mary Chacon Peterson, Albuquerque: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 2018, ix-xxvii.
“Coyota: Juana Domínguez, A Woman Between Two Cultures, El Palacio: Art, History & Culture of the Southwest, Fall 2018, 58-67.
“Into a New World: The López Holguín-Villanueva Clan of 17th-cetury New Mexico,” Part I, New Mexico Genealogist, March 2019, Vol. 58, No. 1, 18-33.
“Protectors of the Franciscan: The López Hiolguín-Villanueva Clan of 17th-cetury New Mexico,” Part II, New Mexico Genealogist, June 2019, Vol. 58, No. 2, 75-104.
“Family Ties Shift: The Abendaño-Vera-Salas-Montoya Clan,” New Mexico Genealogist, September 2019, Vol. 58, No. 3, 134-152.
“In Service to God and King: The Olguín Family Chronicle,” Part I, New Mexico Genealogist, December 2019, Vol. 58, No. 1, 183-197.
“In Service to God and King: Juan López Holguín and Ana María Luján,” New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 59. No. 1, September 2020, 155-163.
“A DNA and Timeline Report for the Gallegos Family of New Mexico, 1535-1694,” Albert J. Gallegos, José Antonio Esquibel and Marietta Vigil Gonzales, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 59, No. 1, March 2020, 36-45.
“A Time For Reflection on Those Who Bridge Cultures,” Commentary in Santa Fe New Mexican, June 27, 2020, and in Herencia, Vol. 28, Issue 3, July 2020, 4-7.
“Bearing Witness to the Inquisition: Doña Isabel Holguín and Juan de Vitoria Carvajal,” New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 60, No. 1, March 2021, 12-29.
“Devotion to La Virgen de Guadalupe in Seventeenth-century New Mexico,” in Cultural Convergence in New Mexico: Honoring William Wroth, Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2021, 75-84.
"The First Family of Juan de Vitoria Carvajal," New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 60. N0. 3, September 2021, 105-115.
“The Pacheco Family of New Mexico: DNA Testing and Documentation Tracing Pacheco Roots into the Seventeenth Century,” José Antonio Esquibel, Henrietta Martinez Christmas, and Miguel Tórrez, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 60, No. 4, December 2021, 147-158.
"Through Time and History: The Second Family of Juan de Vitoria Carvajal in New Mexico," New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 61, No. 1, March 2022, 8-19.
"Genetic Ancestry and Family History: Durán y Chaves, García de Noriega, and Gurulé Narratives and Genealogies" ("The Shared Genetic Ancestry of Three New Mexico Families"), New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 61, No. 4, 163-171.
"The Vallejos Family Ancestry: Spain to New Spain to New Mexico, 1550-1720, Part I" José Antonio Esquibel and Robert D. Martínez, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 62, No. 2, June 2023, 73-83.
"The Vallejos Family Ancestry: Spain to New Spain to New Mexico, 1550-1720, Par II" José Antonio Esquibel and Robert D. Martínez, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 62, No.3, September 2023, 109-121.
"The Royal Appointment of Captain Pedro Durán de Chaves as Sargento Mayor of New Mexico, 1611," New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 63, No. 1, 8-11.
"Agua, Tierra y Familia: The Durán Family of Ojo Caliente, Acequias, and Land Grants of the Río Chama, 1598-1800, Part I: Origins and Background," José Antonio Esquibel and José A. Rivera, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 63, No. 2, June 2024, 73-81.
"Agua, Tierra y Familia: The Durán Family of Ojo Caliente, Acequias, and Land Grants of the Río Chama, 1598-1800, Part II: Los Duranes y las Acequias en la Villa de Santa Fe," José Antonio Esquibel and José A. Rivera, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 63, No. 3, September 2024, 103-111.
"Agua, Tierra y Familia: The Durán Family of Ojo Caliente, Acequias, and Land Grants of the Río Chama, 1598-1800, Part III: Persistence and Fortitude as Frantier Settlers," José Antonio Esquibel and José A. Rivera, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 63, No. 4, December 2024, 155-172.
"Agua, Tierra y Familia: The Durán Family of Ojo Caliente, Acequias, and Land Grants of the Río Chama, 1598-1800, Part IV: Establishing a Nuevomejicano Cultural Legacy," José Antonio Esquibel and José A. Rivera, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 65, No. 1, March 2025, 7-14.
"Genealogy of the Durán Family of Ojo Caliente and La Canoa," José Antonio Esquibel and José A. Rivera, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 65, No. 1, March 2025, 15-20.
"In Service to Crown and Kingdom: The Life of Luis Martín Serrano, circa 1623 to circa 1707," Part 1, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 64, No. 4, December 2025, 157-169.
"In Service to Crown and Kingdom: The Life of Luis Martín Serrano, circa 1623 to circa 1707," Part 2, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 65, No. 1, April 2026.
“Las Puertas del Santuario: The Carved Doors of Pedro Domínguez," José Antonio Esquibel and Charles M. Carrillo,” forthcoming in a book on the history of El Santuario de Chimayó.
“The Family of Bernardo Abeyta: Patron of the Capilla de Nuestro Señor de Esquipulas,” forthcoming in a book on the history of El Santuario de Chimayó.
Papers Presented
"Tragedy Among Oñate's Colony: A Chronicle of the Sosa Albornoz Family," 21pp (1994). Paper presented at the 36th Annual New Mexico/Arizona Historical Convention, Tucson, Arizona, April 14, 1995.
"The History of a Spanish Matriarch of Eighteenth Century Northern New Mexico: Josefa de Pas Bustillos y Ontiveros." Paper presented at the Historical Society of New Mexico 1996 Annual Conference, April 20, 1996, Las Vegas, NM.
"The Jewish Converso Ancestry of Don Juan de Oñate." Paper presented at a meeting of the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society, June 23, 1996, Albuquerque, NM. This paper was revised for publication in the Colonial Latin American Historical Review (Spring 1998) and re-titled as "New Light on the Jewish-converso Ancestry of Don Juan de Oñate: A Research Note."
"Journey to New Mexico: Ana's Story" (1994). Paper presented at the 1996 Annual Conference of the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America, Pueblo, CO, June 29, 1996.
"Sacramental Records and the Preservation of New Mexico Family Genealogies from the Colonial Era to the Present." Paper presented at the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Cuarto Centennial Conference, September 8-9, 1997, Santa Fe, NM.
"Blacksmiths of the Sena Family, 1684-1900: A Documented Case of the Transmission of Tradition in New Mexico" (or, "Stewards of Tradition in New Mexico"), presented at a meeting of the Albuquerque Historical Society in the spring of 1999.
"Don Diego Vásquez Borrego: Adventurer and Prominent Rancher of Belen, 1733-1753." Paper presented at the Historical Society of New Mexico 2000 Annual Conference, April 14, 2000, Los Lunas, NM.
“Juan Luis Herrera and the Soldiers of the Santa Fe Presidio: Patriots of the American Revolution,” presented on the occasion of the induction of Eva Torres Aschenbrener into the Daughter's of the American Revolution, the First Hispanic Women Inducted as a Descendent of a Soldier of the Santa Fe Presidio, April 10, 2002, Palace of the Governors (formerly the site of the Presidio de Santa Fe) Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Paper Read: Primeros Pobladores de Lareda: Don Tomás Sánchez de la Barrera and S Doña Catarina de Eribe Treviño, Annual Texas State Hispanic and Historical Conference, 250th Anniversary of the Founding of San Agustín de Laredo, Laredo, Texas, September 3, 2005.
Paper Read: “Formative Era of New Mexico’s colonial Population, 1693-1700,” at the Mestizaje in New Spain and New Mexico: A Forum, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, September 26, 2006.
Paper Read: “Juan Domínguez de Mendoza: Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627-1693, Marc Simmons and José Antonio Esquibel, New Mexico History Conference, Santa Fe, May 5, 2012.
Paper Read: “Raíces y Linajes: Tracking the Deep Roots and Long Lineages of Nuevomejicano Family Genealogies,” Society of Crypto-Judaic Studies, 22nd Annual Conference, July 22-24, 2012.
Keynote Speaker: “Generation by Generation: researching Spanish Jewish-converso Lineages of Nuevomejicano Families,” Genealogy Seminar, 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, Pre-Conference Genealogy Institute, July 28, 2013.
Paper Read: “The Formative Era of Nuevomejicano Culture, 1693-1700,” Genealogical Society of Hispanic American Annual Conference, June 8, 2014.
Paper Read: “Out from the Shadow of Suspicion: The Identity of Juan de Oñate’s Jewish Converso Lineage, Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism,The Inquisition, and New World Identities Symposium, Santa Fe, September 10, 2016.
Unpublished Works and Research Notes
A Colonial New Mexico Chest Maker: Manuel Lorenzo Valdés, 1752-1795, essay, 1996
New Mexico’s Pastoral Society, 2001-2002
Spanish Frontier Cattle Ranching and the Legacy of the Vaquero Tradition, 2001-2002
Saints of Devotion among Individuals of 17th-century New Mexico, research notes, 2004
Vecino Estancias of Seventeenth-Century New Mexico, essay, 2006
Encomendero Clans of 17th-century New Mexico, research notes, 2007-2011
Encomienda System in New Mexico and Encomenderos Family Clans, essay, 2010
Palace Echoes: 17th-Century References to the Casa Reales de Palacio,’1659-1663, research notes, 2005. These notes were utilized for an article by Corelia T. Snow and Stephen S. Post, “I Rebuilt the Palace of the Governors at My Own Expense: Four Hundred Years of Remaking An Adobe Marvel,” in El Palacio, Magazine of the Museum of New Mexico, Spring 2020.
Juan Chamisal, Albañil Maestro: Research and Summary Notes Prepared for the Palace of the Governors,” research notes prepared for Museum of New Mexico Palace of the Governors, research notes, 2005
Villa de Santa Fe Census, 1712, Annotated, research notes, 2006
Founding of Santa Fe, research notes, 2007-2011
On the Founding of the Villa de Santa Fe, essay, 2007
Vecinos and Residents of the Villa de Santa Fe, 1659-1663, research notes, 2007
Political and Economic Influences in the Establishment if Estancias in Seventeenth-century New Mexico, essay, 2008
Analysis of the Granillo Inspection of Pre-1680 Property Owners in the Vicnity of La Cañada, essay, 2008
Soldados-Vecinos of New Mexico, 1598-1610: A Preliminary Compilation, 2009
Vecinos of the Villa de Santa Fe, 1610-1632, research notes. 2010
Founding and Founders of Santa Fe, essay, 2011
Franciscan Friars of 17th-Century New Mexico, research notes
Indios Méxicanos of 17th-century New Mexico, research notes
Timeline of Carpenter and Sculptors of 18th and 19th-century New Mexico, research notes, 2001-2003
Vecinos, Mineros y Hacendados: The Sáez family of Nueva Vizcaya and Nuevo Méxicom 1600-1750, José Antonio Esquibel and Robert D. Martínez, draft unpublished manuscript.
Jaramillo Negrete Family Genealogy, research notes, 2016
“Miguel de la Vega y Coca,” draft essay with Robert D. Martínez, draft essay, unpublished, 2016
Documenting the Ancestry of Ruy Díaz de Mendoza, research notes, 2020
Indios Méxicanos and Hermita de San Miguel References and Records, research notes, 2021
New Mexico Spanish Sephardic Ancestry, 2021-2022
Research Consultation
Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 2004:
A Tapestry of Kinship: Rediscovered Santeros of Colonial Santa Fe (Un tapiz de parentesco: Santeros de Santa Fe colonial discubiertos de Nuevo)
El Camino Real Project, 1995-96 & 2001-02:
Gallery of Historical Figures for the El Camino Real Cultural Heritage Center (1995-1996)
Essay: “New Mexico’s Pastoral Society” (2001-2002, unpublished)
Essay: “Spanish Frontier Cattle Ranching and the Legacy of the
Vaquero Tradition” (2001-2002, unpublished)
El Rancho de la Golandrinas Museum, 1997-98—
Founding Mothers of New Mexico Exhibition
Vargas Project, 1993-94—
To the Royal Crown Restored: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1692-1694, John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks, and Meredith D. Dodge, eds., J. Ignacio Avellaneda, Associate Editor, Larry D. Miller, Assistance Editor, José Antonio Esquibel, Research Consultant. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1995.
Sephardic Legacy Project, 1998-2004
Genealogy charts for the book, ¡Conha!: Concha Ortiz y Pino , Matriarch of a 300-Year-Old New Mexico Legacy, by Kathryn M. Córdova (2004)
The Spanish Colonial Settlement Landscapes of New Mexico, 1598-1680 (Elinore M. Barrett, UNM Press, 2012), contributing the following unpublished essays:
“Vecinos and residents of the Villa de Santa Fe, 1569-1663,” unpublished research notes and compilation, 2007
“Political and Economic Influences in the Establishment of Estancias in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico,” unpublished essay, February 2008
Soldados y Vecinos of New Mexico 1598 to 1610: A Preliminary Compilation,” research notes, 2008
City of Santa Fe Cuarto Centenario Committee: Research contributions on the founding and founders of Santa Fe, 2007-2010
State of New Mexico House of Representatives Memorial for Santa Cruz de la Cañada as an official Villa, 2019
Finding Your Roots TV Show (Henry Louis Gates), Season 1, Episode #10: Martín Serrano ancestry records for the genealogy Adrian Grenier, 2011-2012 (Air date: May 20, 2012)
Lion Television: Research on descendants of Martín Pinzón, Juan Sebastián del Cano Diego Colón and Simón de Bolivar for a television genealogy documentary pilot program, 2015
Lambach’s in New Mexico and Those Who Came Before by Jan Girard, 2013-2015
Blog Posts
“Exciting Book Forthcoming: Juan Domínguez de Mendoza,” July 31, 2011
“Exciting Book Forthcoming: Juan Domínguez de Mendoza,” July 31, 2011
“Exciting Book Forthcoming: Juan Domínguez de Mendoza,” July 31, 2011
“Exciting Book Forthcoming: Juan Domínguez de Mendoza,” July 31, 2011
“Completing Edits to D de M Book & Working on Santa Fe Founding Families,” August 6, 2011
“Exciting Book Forthcoming: Juan Domínguez de Mendoza,” July 31, 2011
“Completing Edits to D de M Book & Working on Santa Fe Founding Families,” August 6, 2011
“500 Printed Copies of Domínguez de Mendoza Book,” January 12, 2012
“Essay— Thirty-eight Adobe Houses: The Villa de Santa Fe in the Seventeenth Century”
“Exciting Book Forthcoming: Juan Domínguez de Mendoza,” July 31, 2011
“Completing Edits to D de M Book & Working on Santa Fe Founding Families,” August 6, 2011
“500 Printed Copies of Domínguez de Mendoza Book,” January 12, 2012
“Essay— Thirty-eight Adobe Houses: The Villa de Santa Fe in the Seventeenth Century”
“Santa Fe Founding Families,” February 3, 2012
“Exciting Book Forthcoming: Juan Domínguez de Mendoza,” July 31, 2011
“Completing Edits to D de M Book & Working on Santa Fe Founding Families,” August 6, 2011
“500 Printed Copies of Domínguez de Mendoza Book,” January 12, 2012
“Essay— Thirty-eight Adobe Houses: The Villa de Santa Fe in the Seventeenth Century,” January 27, 2012
“Santa Fe Founding Families,” February 3, 2012
“The Palace of the Governor’s in the Seventeenth Century,” February 8, 2012
“Exciting Book Forthcoming: Juan Domínguez de Mendoza,” July 31, 2011
“Completing Edits to D de M Book & Working on Santa Fe Founding Families,” August 6, 2011
“500 Printed Copies of Domínguez de Mendoza Book,” January 12, 2012
“Essay— Thirty-eight Adobe Houses: The Villa de Santa Fe in the Seventeenth Century”
“Santa Fe Founding Families,” February 3, 2012
“The Palace of the Governor’s in the Seventeenth Century,” February 8, 2012
“Article on Josefa de Pas Bustillos y Ontiveros,” February 20, 2012
“New Book: The Spanish Colonial Settlement Landscapes of New Mexico, 1598-1680,” February 25, 2012
“20 Years as a Published Author,” March 4, 2012
“PBS Show Finding Your Roots and the Martín Serrano Lineage,” March 10, 2012
“Founding Mothers of Albuquerque,” March 20, 2012
“Mestizaje: Indian Roots In 17th-Century New Mexico Family Genealogy,” March 27, 2012
“Luján Family of 17th-century New Mexico: Part 1,” March 31, 2012
“December 1692 Census of El Paso Citizens: An Important Research Source,” April 1, 2012
“Juan Dominguez de Mendoza Book in Hand,” April 21, 2012
Status: “Domínguez de Mendoza Paper for New Mexico History Conference,” April 28, 2012
“France V. Scholes (1897-1979): Writings on Seventeenth-century New Mexico,” May 1, 2012
“Domínguez de Mendoza Paper and 2012 New Mexico History Conference,” May 5, 2012
“The Luján Project Moves Forward,” May 19, 2012
“Speaking In Albuquerque July 7th at the HGRC Meeting,” June 9, 2012
“Digital Version of the Book Juan Domínguez de Mendoza Now Available,” September 30, 2012
“Sixteenth-century Gallegos Family History,” November 24, 2012
“Updating the Martín Serrano Family Genealogy,” January 10, 2013
“Updated Genealogy of the Early Esquibel Family of New Mexico,” February 7, 2013
“Paredes, Zaldivar, Cortes Clarification,” February 16, 2013
“Martin Serrano Family Genealogy Corrections to Part 2,” March 20, 2013
“Milestone New Mexico Genealogy Breakthrough: Moreno de Trujillo-Ruiz de Aguilar Ancestry,” April 27, 2013
“Genealogy Seminar: Researching Spanish Jewish-converso Lineages of Nuevomejicano Families,” May 3, 2013
“Moreno de Trujillo Genealogy,” May 16, 2013
“Gallegos Family History and Genealogy Part 2, 2013,” July 13, 2013
“Epilogue to Vargas’ 1693 Recruits,” August 20, 2013
“Publisher and Author Ana Pacheco, La Herencia del Norte, and Celebrating New Mexico's History, Culture and Heritage,” December 7, 2013
“Excerpt from Part 3 of “The Genealogy of Luis Gallegos de Terrazas and Pascuala de Rueda,” December 15, 2013
“Jirón de Tejeda, Leyva y Mendoza, and Afán de Ribera Genealogy,” February 8, 2014
“Andrés Armijo's New Book, Por Constancia/So that it may be Validated: Family History in the Río Abajo,” February 9, 2014
“Beyond Origins of New Mexico Families Still Online,” April 23, 2014
“Conference Presentation: "The Formative Era of Nuevomejicano Culture, 1693-1700," May 3, 2014
“Recognizing the Financial Contribution of New Mexicans to the U.S. War of Independence,” July 4, 2014
“The Family of Matías Romero and Doña Isabel de Pedraza in 17th-century New Mexico,” October 28, 2014
“Early Settlers of Santa Cruz de la Cañada, 1695-1715: A Monograph,” January 1, 2016
“Francisco Montes Vigil (1665-1731): A New Mexico Genealogical Link to Medieval European Nobility and Royalty,” April 13, 2017
“Spanish Colonial Women and the Law: Editorial Review,” October 15, 2017
“Commentary on ‘The Lucero de Godoy Family of New Mexico’ Book,” May 13, 2018
“Juana Domínguez, Coyota: A Women Caught Between Two Cultures,” September 7, 2018
“A Family Biography: The López Holguín-Villanueva Clan of Seventeenth-century New Mexico, Part 1,” March 5, 2019
“Part 2: The López Holguín-Villanueva Clan of 17th-century New Mexico,” June 12, 2019
“López Holguín-Villanueva Family History Continues,” November 30, 2019
“Exciting Book Forthcoming: Juan Domínguez de Mendoza,” July 31, 2011
“Completing Edits to D de M Book & Working on Santa Fe Founding Families,” August 6, 2011
“500 Printed Copies of Domínguez de Mendoza Book,” January 12, 2012
“Essay— Thirty-eight Adobe Houses: The Villa de Santa Fe in the Seventeenth Century”
“Santa Fe Founding Families,” February 3, 2012
“The Palace of the Governor’s in the Seventeenth Century,” February 8, 2012
“Article on Josefa de Pas Bustillos y Ontiveros,” February 20, 2012
“New Book: The Spanish Colonial Settlement Landscapes of New Mexico, 1598-1680,” February 25, 2012
“20 Years as a Published Author,” March 4, 2012
“PBS Show Finding Your Roots and the Martín Serrano Lineage,” March 10, 2012
“Founding Mothers of Albuquerque,” March 20, 2012
“Mestizaje: Indian Roots In 17th-Century New Mexico Family Genealogy,” March 27, 2012
“Luján Family of 17th-century New Mexico: Part 1,” March 31, 2012
“December 1692 Census of El Paso Citizens: An Important Research Source,” April 1, 2012
“Juan Dominguez de Mendoza Book in Hand,” April 21, 2012
Status: “Domínguez de Mendoza Paper for New Mexico History Conference,” April 28, 2012
“France V. Scholes (1897-1979): Writings on Seventeenth-century New Mexico,” May 1, 2012
“Domínguez de Mendoza Paper and 2012 New Mexico History Conference,” May 5, 2012
“The Luján Project Moves Forward,” May 19, 2012
“Speaking In Albuquerque July 7th at the HGRC Meeting,” June 9, 2012
“Digital Version of the Book Juan Domínguez de Mendoza Now Available,” September 30, 2012
“Sixteenth-century Gallegos Family History,” November 24, 2012
“Updating the Martín Serrano Family Genealogy,” January 10, 2013
“Updated Genealogy of the Early Esquibel Family of New Mexico,” February 7, 2013
“Paredes, Zaldivar, Cortes Clarification,” February 16, 2013
“Martin Serrano Family Genealogy Corrections to Part 2,” March 20, 2013
“Milestone New Mexico Genealogy Breakthrough: Moreno de Trujillo-Ruiz de Aguilar Ancestry,” April 27, 2013
“Genealogy Seminar: Researching Spanish Jewish-converso Lineages of Nuevomejicano Families,” May 3, 2013
“Moreno de Trujillo Genealogy,” May 16, 2013
“Gallegos Family History and Genealogy Part 2, 2013,” July 13, 2013
“Epilogue to Vargas’ 1693 Recruits,” August 20, 2013
“Publisher and Author Ana Pacheco, La Herencia del Norte, and Celebrating New Mexico's History, Culture and Heritage,” December 7, 2013
“Excerpt from Part 3 of “The Genealogy of Luis Gallegos de Terrazas and Pascuala de Rueda,” December 15, 2013
“Jirón de Tejeda, Leyva y Mendoza, and Afán de Ribera Genealogy,” February 8, 2014
“Andrés Armijo's New Book, Por Constancia/So that it may be Validated: Family History in the Río Abajo,” February 9, 2014
“Beyond Origins of New Mexico Families Still Online,” April 23, 2014
“Conference Presentation: "The Formative Era of Nuevomejicano Culture, 1693-1700," May 3, 2014
“Recognizing the Financial Contribution of New Mexicans to the U.S. War of Independence,” July 4, 2014
“The Family of Matías Romero and Doña Isabel de Pedraza in 17th-century New Mexico,” October 28, 2014
“Early Settlers of Santa Cruz de la Cañada, 1695-1715: A Monograph,” January 1, 2016
“Francisco Montes Vigil (1665-1731): A New Mexico Genealogical Link to Medieval European Nobility and Royalty,” April 13, 2017
“Spanish Colonial Women and the Law: Editorial Review,” October 15, 2017
“Commentary on ‘The Lucero de Godoy Family of New Mexico’ Book,” May 13, 2018
“Juana Domínguez, Coyota: A Women Caught Between Two Cultures,” September 7, 2018
“A Family Biography: The López Holguín-Villanueva Clan of Seventeenth-century New Mexico, Part 1,” March 5, 2019
“Part 2: The López Holguín-Villanueva Clan of 17th-century New Mexico,” June 12, 2019
“López Holguín-Villanueva Family History Continues,” November 30, 2019
Forthcoming