Colorado Fast Facts and Key Resources

? Statehood: 1876

? US territory status: 1861

? First federal censuses:. 1860 (as four territories), 1870 (as Colorado Territory), 1880 (as a state)

? Statewide birth, marriage and death records begin: 1907

? Counties: 64

<www.cdphe.state.co.us/certs/genealogy.html>

Web Sites

? Colorado Clues

<www.coloradoclues.com>

? Colorado GenWeb Project

<rootsweb.com/~cogenweb>

? Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection

<coloradohistoricnewspapers.org>

? Colorado Places by County

<rootsweb.com/~coplaces>

? Colorado State Archives: Digital Records

<www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/ archives/digital>

? Cyndi’s List: Colorado

<cyndislist.com/co.htm>

? Ghostseekers

<www.ghostseekers.com>.

? Western States Marriage Records lndex

<abish.byui.edu/specialcollections/westernstates/search.cfm>

Resources

? Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, & Washington, 1727-1900 Marriage lndex CD (Genealogical Publishing Co.)

? Colorado and Its People by LeRoy R. Hafen (Lewis Historical Publishing Co.)

? Colorado Families: A Territorial Heritage (Colorado Genealogical Society)

? A Colorado History by Carl Ubbelohde, Maxine Benson and Duane A. Smith (Pruett Publishing Co.)

? Colorado: A History of the Centennial State by Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard and Thomas J. Noel (University of colorado Press)

? From Fort Massachusetts to the Rio Grande: A History of Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico from 1850 — 1900 by Douglas B. Thomas (Thomas International)

? From the Grave: A Roadside Guide to Colorado’s Pioneer Cemeteries by Linda Wommack (Caxton Press)

? Guide to Colorado Newspapers, 1859 to 1963 by Donald E. Oehlerts (Bibliographical Center for Research)

? Homesteading Women: An Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950 by Julie Jones-Eddy (Twayne Publishers)

? Pioneers of the Territory of Southern Colorado, 2 volumes, by the Territorial Daughters of Colorado (Offset Printing)

Organizations and Archives

? Colorado Genealogical Society

? Colorado Historical Society

? Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy

? Colorado State Archives

? Denver Public Library

?NARA Rocky Mountain Regional Archives

? Norlin Library

Western Historical Collection, University of Colorado, 18th Street and Colorado Avenue, Boulder, CO 80301,