Genealogy Projects tagged with Atrisco on the Geni Family Tree

Founding Families of Albuquerque, New Mexico

Scope of project ==This project identifies members of the founding families of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1706.== Overview ==On 23 April 1706 Francisco Cuervo y Valdés wrote to the king of Spain and to the viceroy of New Spain he had founded a new villa in New Mexico. Francisco Cuervo y Valdés named the community after the viceroy, Fernandez de la Cueva, Duque de Alburquerque. The governor, in...