Colorado Resources
Here are some resources that are available for
genealogical research in Colorado:
For vital records, write to:
- Vital Records Section
Colorado Department of Health
4300 Cherry Creek Drive, South
Denver, CO 80246
Phone: (303) 756-4464
- They have birth records since 1910, death records since 1900, indexes of marriage records from 1900-1939 and 1975-present, and indexes of divorce records from 1900-1939 and 1968-present. Call for costs. You can also check with the County Clerk where the event took place.
For information on State Archives & Libraries, write to:
- Division of Archives and Public Records
Department of Administration
1313 Sherman Street, Room 1B
Denver, CO 80203
Phone: (303) 866-2055
- Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00-4:30, closed Saturday, Sunday, and all holidays.
- They have census records from 1850 to 1920, court records, including naturalization cases, divorce and probate records, land records (most of the land records for the state may be found in respective county recorder offices, however, scattered territorial and state records are in the archives), maps, military records, newspapers (no newspapers are held in the state archives themselves; researchers may reference newspapers in the Stephen H. Hart library), photographs (the archives houses photographs of public buildings and officials and government events, as well as such state agency photographs as penitentiary inmates), vital statistics from 1900 to the present.
For information on state Genealogical Societies, write to:
- Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies
P.O. Box 24379
Denver, CO 80224-0379
- Publication: Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies Newsletter (A cooperative organization of many Colorado groups, does not offer direct services to genealogists).
- Colorado Genealogical Society
10 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy.
Denver, CO 80204
Phone: (303) 640-6200
- Denver Public Library
Genealogy Division
- Hours: Monday-Wednesday 10:00-9:00, Thursday-Saturday 10:00-5:30, Sunday 1:00-5:00.
- Publications: The Colorado Genealogist, Colorado Genealogical Society Newsletter.
