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Colorado is a state in the midwestern United States. Denver is the capital and the most populous city of Colorado. The state's population was estimated to be 4,665,177 as of 2005.^[2] Colorado is also considered to be a part of the Mountain, Southwestern, and Central regions of the country. Residents of Colorado are known as Coloradans.

The word "Colorado" was selected by Congress in 1861 as the name for the Colorado Territory that is today a state. The name has its origins in the Spanish language, where it is directly translated as "colored red." ^[4] It is named after the Colorado River (Río Colorado), itself named after its reddish-brown color.

The territory that ultimately became Colorado was added to the United States by the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and the1848 Mexican Cession. In 1854 the Kansas Territory was organized, including what is now much of Colorado. The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859 (see also Fifty-Niner) brought many settlers to the Denver area. A convention was held to organize the provisional Jefferson Territory, but an official break from the Kansas Territory didn't happen until 1861. The Colorado Territory was organized as a United States territory on February 28, 1861, lame duck President Buchanan signing an Act of Congress. Colorado attained statehood August 1, 1876, (earning it the moniker the "Centennial State"). Colorado women were granted the right to vote starting on November 7, 1893.

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ARCHIVES

Colorado State Archives, Centenniel Building, 1313 Sherman Street, Rm. 1B-20, Denver, CO 80203; Tel: 303-866-2358,

303-866-2390, 800-305-3442 (Toll-free in Colorado only), Fax: 303-866-2257, E-mail: [email protected]

National Archives-Rocky Mountain Region, Denver Federal Center, Building 48, West 6th Avenue and Kipling Street, Denver, Colorado 80225-0307. Mailing Address: P.O. Box 25307, Denver, Colorado 80225-0307; Tel: 303-236-0817,

E-mail: [email protected], Fax: 303-236-9297

Chautauqua Association, Archive and History Room, Administration Building, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, CO 80302;

Tel: 303-442-3282, Fax: 303-449-0790

Colorado State University, Special Collections & Archives, Fort Collins, CO 80523; Tel: 970-491-3977 Information, 970-491-1841 Social Sciences/Humanities, 970-491-1882 Government Documents, 970-491-1844 Archives-Voice, Fax:970-491-1195

Cortez Center, 25 North Market Street, Cortez, CO 81321; Tel: 970-565-1151, Fax: 970-565-4075, E-mail: [email protected]

Greeley Museums Office, Municipal Archives, 919 Seventh Street, Greeley, CO 80631; Tel: 970/350-9220, Fax: 970/350-9570
University of Colorado at Boulder Archives, Campus Box 184, Basement, Norlin Library, Boulder, CO 80309; Tel: 303-492-7242, Fax: 303-492-3960, E-mail: [email protected]

HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES

Colorado Genealogical Society, P. O. Box 9218, Denver, CO 80209-0218 or E-mail the Society at [email protected]

Colorado Society of Daughters of the American Revolution

Colorado Society of Sons of the American Revolution

Colorado Historical Society, Stephen H. Hart Library, 1300 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203; Tel: 303-866-3682

LIBRARIES

Berthoud Public Library, 236 Welch Ave, P.O. Box 1259, Berthoud, CO 80513; Tel: (970)532-2757, Fax: (970)532-4372

Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, CO 80302; Tel: 303-441-3100

Carnegie Branch Library, Local History Research Center, 1125 Pine Street, Boulder, CO 80302; Tel: 303-441-3110

Colorado Historical Society, Stephen H. Hart Library, 1300 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203; Tel: 303-866-3682

Colorado State Library, 201 East Colfax Ave., Room 309, Denver, CO 80203, 303-866-6900 (main), Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm

Source: State Library Web Sites

GAZETTEERS / MAPS

· U.S. And Territories (USGS-GNIS Place Name Search)

· Directory of Cities, Towns, in United States

· U.S. Gazetteer (Census Bureau)

· TopoQuest - Topographic Maps Online

· Mapquest – US & Canada Locations

· MSN Maps (N.A., World, Europe)

Alphabetical lists of places in the U.S. State of COLORADO

HISTORICAL PLACES

Adams Alamosa Arapahoe Archuleta Baca Bent Boulder Chaffee Cheyenne Clear Creek Conejos Costilla Crowley Custer Delta Denver Dolores Douglas Eagle El Paso Elbert Fremont Garfield Gilpin Grand Gunnison Hinsdale Huerfano Jackson Jefferson Kiowa Kit Carson La Plata Lake 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 Shasta Summit Teller Washington Weld Yuma

Source: National Register of Historical Places

The following are surnames of persons, found within our databases,

as having been either born, married or died in this location.

McVicker; Moreland; Pinnell; Scruggs and allied families

Gardner; Harvey; Jones; Loyd; Moreland; Ollar; Thomason

Bozarth; Peiffer; Quigley; Rhubart and allied families

Dellinger; Knecht; Pfeffer; Silar and allied families

Huscher; Silar

To find out more about each surname listed above click on the corresponding LINK.

Additional information regarding these surnames may also be found at:

Surname Locator Resources

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Search Help from Google

Use this free genealogy site to help you get the best genealogy searches from Google™ by using your family tree, for your research. It will create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks"

that will likely improve your results. The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google and the Internet to find ancestry information about this or any other Surname.

Our Ancestral Counties

The following named counties are associated with the history of our DIRECT ancestors. To select a specific ancestral county, click on the following link. Here you will find additional links to our county pages where you can obtain information about our family gen-sites, images of localities, and surnames of persons, in our database, who have lived in the selected county.

Boulder; El Paso

Use this LINK to find out more about the locations listed above.

ANCESTRAL LOCATIONS

Click on the image of this U.S. State to View a map of all county locations.

The links below may assist you with your research within the various counties of this state.

Genealogical County

Research Links

Adams; Alamosa; Arapahoe; Archuleta; Baca; Bent; Boulder; Broomfield; Chaffee; Cheyenne; Clear Creek; Conejos; Costilla; Crowley; Custer; Delta; Denver [City & County of ]; Dolores; Douglas; Eagle; Elbert; El Paso; Fremont; Garfield; Greenwood; 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; Platte; Prowers; Pueblo; Rio Blanco; Rio Grande; Routt; Saguache; San Juan; San Miguel; Sedgwick; Summit; Teller; Washington; Weld; Yuma; Unknown County

General County

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Internet
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GENERAL RESOURCES

· Website & Webpages We Like

· Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

· Free Genealogy Search Help For Google

· Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA

· Genealogy Gateway

· Ancestry.com (Reference Materials & Finding Aids)

· Ancestry.com - Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers

· GenealogyLinks.net

· Cyndi's List - United States Index

· IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles & North America

· Libweb - Libraries on the Web

· 50states.com - States and Capitals

· RootsWeb Town Search 1.0

· USA Resources at RootsWeb

· StateGenSites - U.S. Genealogy Sites by State

· The USGenWeb Project

LOCATION SPECIFIC RESOURCES

· Colorado - Wikipedia

· Colorado GenWeb Project

· The Colorado Homepage .

· The Colorado Migrations Project

· Colorado at RootsWeb

· COResources at RootsWeb

· ROOTS-L United States Resources: Colorado

· RootsWeb Message Boards - Colorado

· StateGenSites - U.S. Genealogy (Colorado)

· The Olive Tree Genealogy - Colorado

· Geneasearch: A Guide to Colorado Genealogy

· Genealogy.com: State Resources -- Colorado

· Kindred Trails - Colorado Genealogy Resources

Lineages.com - Colorado Research Room

OUR GENEALOGY REFERENCE LIBRARY

The following Link will take you to our library of genealogy reference books that pertain to this U.S. State. Here you will find books about the history and records of this State, as well as its counties and other localities such as towns and churches. The collection also contains research works about State military units and personnel during America’s wars. In addition, there are resource texts about the ethnic and religious groups who settled in this State.

U.S.A. Locations Library - States, Counties, & Localities

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