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Searching for Colorado birth records, Colorado census records, Colorado marriage records, or Colorado death records? How about a free genealogy search? Find help for your family history search and building your family tree. |
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Colorado Genealogy Databases
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Colorado Genealogy Help Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century. There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the Colorado vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once Colorado vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your Colorado ancestors using Colorado census records. Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them. |
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Colorado Vital Records Information (How to contact the Vital Records Department of Colorado) Event: Birth or death Cost of copy: $15.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had death records since 1900 and birth records since 1910. State office also has birth records for some counties for years before 1910. Additional copies of the same record ordered at the same time are $6.00. Pocket size birth cards are available for birth years 1960 to present and contain name, sex, date, place of birth, state file number, date filed, and date issued. Check or money order should be made payable to Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (303) 756-4464. This will be a recorded message. Information on how to obtain certified copies is also available via the internet at Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Event: Marriage (State) Cost of copy: See remarks Address: Remarks: Certified copies are not available from State Health Department. Statewide index of records for 1900-39 and 1975 to present. Fee for verification is $12.00. Event: Marriage (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: Copies available from County Clerk in county where license was issued. Event: Divorce (State) Cost of copy: See remarks Address: Remarks: Certified copies are not available from State Health Department. Statewide index of records for 1900-39 and 1968 to 1995. Fee for verification is $12.00. Event: Divorce (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: Copies available from Clerk of District Court in county where divorce was granted. |
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