Colorado Genealogy. This state page of our website provides direct links to free major genealogy databases and historical titles and information found on Colorado Genealogy, whether they exist on our site, or across the web.
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
1400 names and biographical sketches of pioneers who arrived prior to 26 February 1861 in Colorado. Arranged alphabetically - Clear Creek Pioneer Index
An index of individuals extracted from J. S. Randall’s “Annals of Clear Creek County, Colorado.” Included with each extraction is the name, place and year of birth if known, and place and date of death if known.
Colorado Cemetery Records
- Colorado Cemetery Records
- Araphoe County
- Costilla County
- Douglas County
Colorado Census Records
- Colorado Census Records
- Colorado State Census, 1885
Name index and images of population schedules listing the inhabitants of the state of Colorado. The 1885 census was taken with the assistance of the United States Government. - 1885 Colorado State Census – Arapahoe County
Schedules of population, agriculture, manufacturers and mortality. - 1910 Colorado Census Map
Colorado Church Records and History
- Growth of Colorado’s Protestant Churches
- The Catholic Church in Colorado
- Jewish Congregations in Colorado
Colorado County Genealogy
Denver County Genealogy
- Colorado, Denver County Probate Case Files, 1900-1925
Probate case files acquired from the Colorado State Archives in Denver. The collection begins with case number 6407. Files regarding insanity records and adoption material were restricted by the state when the records were acquired and are missing from this collection.
Fremont County Genealogy
- Colorado, County Marriages, 1864-1995
Images of county marriages from Clear Creek, Fremont, Kit Carson, Logan, Moffat, Phillips, Saguache, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma counties.
Kit Carson County Genealogy
- Colorado, County Marriages, 1864-1995
Images of county marriages from Clear Creek, Fremont, Kit Carson, Logan, Moffat, Phillips, Saguache, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma counties.
Logan County Genealogy
- Colorado, County Marriages, 1864-1995
Images of county marriages from Clear Creek, Fremont, Kit Carson, Logan, Moffat, Phillips, Saguache, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma counties.
Moffat County Genealogy
- Colorado, County Marriages, 1864-1995
Images of county marriages from Clear Creek, Fremont, Kit Carson, Logan, Moffat, Phillips, Saguache, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma counties.
Park County Genealogy
- 1861 Park County Territorial Election
- 1885 Park County Census
- Animal Bounty Register 1889 – 1905 Index
- Assessments Index 1876 – 1880
- County Coroner’s Inquest Index – 1882-1913
- County Court Naturalization Intentions Index 1881 – 1906
- County Court Naturalization Records Index 1865 – 1941
- County Court Naturalization Records Index 1880 – 1904
- County Court Naturalization Records Index 1903 – 1906
- County Court Probate Records Index Oct 1868 – Dec 1874
- County Court Probate Records Index Vol. 1 – May 1880 – Feb 1886
- County Court Probate Records Index Vol. B – Jul 1886 – Mar 1907
- County Court Probate Records Index Vol. D. – Sep 1892 – Dec 1896
- County Court Probate Records Index Vol. G – Dec 1906 – Oct 1912
- County Court Probate Records Index Vol. H – Jan 1912 – Jan 1919
- County Court Wills Vol. 1 Index, Sep 1889 – Apr 1925
- District Court Wills Vol. 2 Index, Aug 1959 – Mar 1976
- Park County, Colorado Marriage Records 1881-1950
These marriage records were extracted from the original marriage books at the Park County, Colorado Clerks Office by Lucille Brown during June and July 2001. The names are spelled as they appear in the marriage books. - Park County Obituary Records
- Prisoner Index
- County Teachers Registers School Census Index – 1909-1929
- World War I Draft Index
- World War II 4th Draft Registration Index “Old Man Registration”
Phillips County Genealogy
- Colorado, County Marriages, 1864-1995
Images of county marriages from Clear Creek, Fremont, Kit Carson, Logan, Moffat, Phillips, Saguache, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma counties.
Saguache County Genealogy
- Colorado, County Marriages, 1864-1995
Images of county marriages from Clear Creek, Fremont, Kit Carson, Logan, Moffat, Phillips, Saguache, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma counties.
Sedgwick County Genealogy
- Colorado, County Marriages, 1864-1995
Images of county marriages from Clear Creek, Fremont, Kit Carson, Logan, Moffat, Phillips, Saguache, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma counties.
Washington County Genealogy
- Colorado, County Marriages, 1864-1995
Images of county marriages from Clear Creek, Fremont, Kit Carson, Logan, Moffat, Phillips, Saguache, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma counties.
Yuma County Genealogy
- Colorado, County Marriages, 1864-1995
Images of county marriages from Clear Creek, Fremont, Kit Carson, Logan, Moffat, Phillips, Saguache, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma counties.
Colorado Genealogy Websites
United States Genealogy
USGenWeb Project
Adams, Alamosa, Arapahoe, Archuleta, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield [City & County of ], Chaffee, Cheyenne, Clear Creek, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, Delta, Denver [City & County of ], Dolores, Douglas, Eagle, Elbert, El Paso, Fremont, Garfield, Gilpin, Grand, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Huerfano, Jackson, Jefferson, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lake, LaPlata, Larimer, Las Animas, Lincoln, Logan, Mesa, Mineral, Moffat, Montezuma, Montrose, Morgan, Otero, Ouray, Park, Phillips, Pitkin, Prowers, Pueblo, Rio Blanco, Rio Grande, Routt, Saguache, San Juan, San Miguel, Sedgwick, Summit, Teller, Washington, Weld, Yuma, Unknown County,
American History and Genealogy Project
Adams, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield, Chaffee, Custer, Denver, Dolores, Fremont, Huerfano, Jefferson, Kiowa, Lake, Mesa, Pueblo, Pueblo 2, Weld.
Independent Colorado Genealogy Websites
Colorado Court Records
- Colorado State Reformatory Prisoner Records
Index of names of prisoners in attendance from 1887 through 1939. - Colorado, Denver County Probate Case Files, 1900-1925
Probate case files acquired from the Colorado State Archives in Denver. The collection begins with case number 6407. Files regarding insanity records and adoption material were restricted by the state when the records were acquired and are missing from this collection.
Colorado Directories
- 1887 Denver City Directory
Arranged alphabetically, by address, and by occupation, race, gender and employer in three volumes.
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 1897-1980
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.
Colorado Immigration and Naturalization
- Index to Naturalization and Declarations of Intent 1877 – 1929
- Colorado Naturalization Records, 1876-1990
This collection contains naturalization records, declarations of intention, court orders granting petitions, and case files from eight different NARA collections ARC #’s: 649217, 649271, 3514570, 5049445, 5955511, 649183, 1307044, and 720245. Originally captured at the NARA Regional Archives in Denver, Colorado.
Colorado Land Records
- U.S., Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1820-1908
3,907 land management tract books containing official records of the land status and transactions involving surveyed public lands arranged by state and then by township and range. These books indicate who obtained the land, and include a physical description of the tract and where the land is located. The type of transaction is also recorded such as cash entry, credit entry, homesteads, patents (deeds) granted by the Federal Government, and other conveyances of title such as Indian allotments, internal improvement grants (to states), military bounty land warrants, private land claims, railroad grants, school grants, and swamp grants. Additional items of information included in the tract books are as follows: number of acres, date of sale, purchase price, land office, entry number, final Certificate of Purchase number, and notes on relinquishments and conversions. - The County Recorder. Online searchable land records for Colorado.
- Baca County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, Colorado
- Cheyenne County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, Colorado
- Dolores County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, Colorado
- Huerfano County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, Colorado
- Kiowa County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, Colorado
- Lincoln County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, Colorado
- Ouray County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, Colorado
- Saguache County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, Colorado
- San Juan County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, Colorado
- San Miguel County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, Colorado
- Sedgwick County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, Colorado
- Teller County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, Colorado
- Washington County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, Colorado
Colorado 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 Records
- 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 I Records
- World War II Records
- Korean War Casualty List
- Vietnam War Casualty List
Colorado Native American Records
- Colorado Indian Tribes
- 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. - Colorado Land Patents ~ Cheyenne
Colorado Obituaries
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. - Jefferson County Obituary Index
The alphabetical obituary index includes names from seventeen local newspapers. - Park County Obituary Records
Colorado Vital Records
- Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006
Name index and images of card index created by the Division of Vital Statistics, Department of Health in Colorado. The index is arranged alphabetically by groom’s name providing county, names of husband and wife, age, race, date and place of marriage, certificate number. Some cards are out of order. - Colorado, County Marriages, 1864-1995
Images of county marriages from Clear Creek, Fremont, Kit Carson, Logan, Moffat, Phillips, Saguache, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma counties. - Colorado Statewide Divorce Index, 1900-1939
Colorado Department of Health card index of divorces in Colorado from 1900-1939. The index is arranged in alphabetical order. - 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. - Park County, Colorado Marriage Records 1881-1950
These marriage records were extracted from the original marriage books at the Park County, Colorado Clerks Office by Lucille Brown during June and July 2001. The names are spelled as they appear in the marriage books.
- Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006