Colorado Genealogy

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• Colorado African American Records
  • Colorado Statesman Index
    Index of funeral notices, obituaries, and news articles from the leading weekly newspaper serving the African American community from 1904 to 1954.
  • Riverside African-American Burials
    Index to over 5240 burial records.
• Colorado Biographies
  • Real Pioneers of Colorado
  • Clear Creek Pioneer Index
• Colorado Cemetery Records
  • Araphoe County
    • Highway 83 Abandoned Cemetery
  • Costilla County
    • Eastdale Cemetery
  • Douglas County
    • Eggleston Cemetery
• Colorado Census Records
  • 1885 Colorado State Census - Arapahoe County
    Schedules of population, agriculture, manufacturers and mortality.
• Colorado Church Records and History
  • Growth of Colorado's Protestant Churches
    • Baptist Church in Colorado
    • The Christian Church in Colorado
    • Protestant Episcopal Church in Colorado
    • The Lutheran Churches in Colorado
    • Congregational Church in Colorado
    • Seventh Day Adventists in Colorado
    • Methodist Episcopal Church in Colorado
    • Presbyterian Church in Colorado
      • Closing Westminster University
    • Unitarian Church in Colorado
  • The Catholic Church in Colorado  
  • Jewish Congregations in Colorado
• Colorado Counties Map
• Colorado Court Records
  • Colorado State Reformatory Prisoner Records
    Index of names of prisoners in attendance from 1887 through 1939.
• Colorado Directories
  • 1887 Denver City Directory
    Arranged alphabetically, by address, and by occupation, race, gender and employer in three volumes.
• Colorado Genealogy Lookups
• Colorado 1910 Census Edition Map
• Colorado History
  • Colorado Mining Fatalities pre-1963
    Personal information and dates of persons killed as well as major mine accidents, causes of accidents, mining activity per county, poll of nationalities and more.
  • True History of Some of the Pioneers of Colorado
  • Indians of the Pike's Peak Region
    For the most part this book is intentionally local in its character. As its title implies, it relates principally to the Indian tribes that have occupied the region around Pike's Peak during historic times. Includes an Account of the Battle of Sand Creek, and of Occurrences in El Paso County, Colorado, during the War with the Cheyenne and Arapaho, in 1864 and 1868.
  • Women's Suffrage Movement in Colorado
  • Old Ladies Relief Society Index
    Index to residents of the old ladies home from 1897 to 1980.
  • Sons of Colorado Index 1906 - 1908
    Index of articles including biographies and obituaries of Colorado pioneers which appeared in the pages of the Sons of Colorado. This was published by the pioneer society, Sons of Colorado. The title was later changed to The Trail.
  • Trail Index 1908 – 1929
    Index of articles including profiles and obituaries of pioneers that was published 1908-1929 by the Sons of Colorado.
  • Colorado 1861 Territorial Election
    List of Colorado voters, boundaries, and poll locations in the 1861 territorial election.
  • Colorado Argonauts – 59ers' Directory
    A directory of prospector arrivals, removals, deaths, marriages, children, property, mines, and ranches with names of old towns, mining camps, gulches, mountains, rivers, creeks, and other matters relating to the setting of their lives in the Pikes Peak Region.
• Military Records
  • Colorado Forts
    List of colonial forts, trading posts, named camps, redoubts, reservations, general hospitals, national cemeteries, etc., established or erected in the United States from its earliest settlement to 1902.
  • Revolutionary War
  • 1840 Pensioners Database
  • Civil War Records
    • Colorado Civil War Map
    • Civil War Pensions Index Cards
      Each card gives the soldier's name, unit, the application number, the certificate number and the state from which the soldier served. In some cases, the soldier's rank, terms of service, date of death and place of death are given. The index cards refer to pension applications of veterans who served in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1917. The majority of the records pertain to Civil War veterans, but they also include veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, Indian wars, and World War I.
  • World War 1 Records
  • World War II Records
    • Colorado Army - Army Air Corps World War II Casualty List
    • Colorado Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard World War II Casualty List
  • Korean War Casualty List
  • Vietnam War Casualty List
    • Vietnam War Photos
• Colorado Native American Records  
  • Colorado Land Patents ~ Cheyenne
  • Colorado Federally Non-Recognized Tribes
• Colorado Obituary Project
  Statewide index of approximately 50,000 non-Denver obituaries mostly from the 1970s through 1990. Researchers may request a copy of the full-text obituary through the Western History and Genealogy Department.
  • Denver Obituary Index
    Index of obituaries and funeral notices that appeared in the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News between 1936 and 2005.
• Colorado Vital Records
  • Western States Historical Marriage Records Index
    Over the past decade, the BYU-Idaho (formerly known as Ricks College) Family History Center has been extracting early marriage records from counties in the western part of the United States. Virtually all of the pre-1900 marriages are included in the index for Arizona, Idaho and Nevada. Many Idaho, Nevada and Utah counties have been extracted into the 1930's and some, much later. A significant number of marriages from Wyoming, eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, western Colorado and selected counties in California are also included. For more details, see "List of Counties by State".
  • Colorado Mining Fatalities
    In the mid-1800s there was no organized reporting of mine fatalities but in 1884 the death of 59 miners at the Crested Butte coal mine in Gunnison County inspired the State of Colorado to pass legislation requiring mining companies to report their accidents. Information which may be given for each entry which follows is the name of the person killed, their occupation, nationality, age at death, martial status (S = single, M = married, W = widow), number of surviving children, years of mining experience, county in which the accident occurred, company's name, mine name, date died, cause of the accident, and other comments.
  • Farmer and Hale Mortuary Index 1889 - 1909
    Index to registers by this mortuary.
  • Horan Burial Index 1900 - 1956
    Index to registers by this mortuary.
• Discover Colorado Genealogy WebRing  

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• Alumni Lists
  • Denver East High School Alumni, 1928, Denver, CO
  • Montrose Olathe High School Alumni
  • Prowers 1944 Graduates; Union High School, Lamar, Prowers County, CO
  • Otero La Junta HS, Class of 1944
• Cemetery Records
  • Morgan Family Burials, Morgan County Colorado
• Church Records
  • Otero First Baptist Church, Members 1890-2004, Rocky Ford, Colorado
• Obituaries
  • Boulder Boulder Daily Camera, Obituaries 1970-1974, Boulder, Colorado
  • Jefferson Obituaries/Death Notices from the Canyon Courier mid-1950s to mid-1990s

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Census - Other Federal Census
Colorado Census, 1860-80

Census - State Census
Colorado State Census, 1885

Directories - City Directories
Denver, Colorado City Directory, 1890
Leadville, Colorado City Directories, 1882-90

Ethnic - Native American
Indians of the Pike's Peak Region
Navajo Springs, Colorado Ute Census, 1904-08

History
Arkansas Valley, Colorado History
Clear Creek and Boulder Valleys, Colorado History, 1880

Land Records
Denver Land Office Records, 1862-1908

Military - World War I Records
Colorado Soldiers in WWI, 1917-18

Newspaper Records
Colorado Spring Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Colorado Spring Gazette, The (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Daily Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Daily Gazette, The (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Out West (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Weekly Gazette, The (Colorado Springs, Colorado)

Vitals - Birth Records
Chesterfield County, Virginia Births, 1883-86

Vitals - Marriage Records
Colorado Marriages, 1849-1900
Colorado Marriages, 1859-1900

Additional Free Colorado Genealogy

United States Genealogy

• Colorado Genealogy

United States GenWeb Project

• Colorado USGenWeb

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American History and Genealogy Project

• The Colorado Homepage

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