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Colorado State Vital Records
Colorado State Vital Records Office Vital Records Office 4300 Cherry Creek Drive, South Denver, CO 80246 (303) 756-4464 Records include 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. Check out our FREE sample letter you can use to send to vital records offices!

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Family History Centers
What is a Family History Center? Family History Centers are branches of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Centers provide access to many of the microfilms and microfiche in the Family History Library to help you identify your ancestors. Location and Hours There are more than 3,400 centers worldwide. To find a Family History Center near you, see the list of addresses below. Before you visit, you should contact the center to verify when it is open. Services Staff members will show you around the center, answer some research questions (research expertise in each center varies), help you use center resources, and order microfilms and microfiche from the Family History Library. Many centers offer classes on different genealogical research topics. Resources Most centers have a computer with FamilySearch, which helps you search for information about your ancestors. FamilySearch includes Family History Library Catalog, International Genealogical Index, Ancestral File, Social Security Death Index, Scottish Church Records and the United States Military Index Most also have Personal Ancestral File, a computer program that allows you to organize your family history information. Most centers also have a variety of resource files, microfilms, microfiche and published material such as genealogies, histories, gazetteers, atlases and maps at your disposal.
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Other Resources Information about state archives and libraries: Write to: Division of Archives and Public Records Department of Administration 1313 Sherman Street, Room 1B Denver, CO 80203 Telephone: (303) 866-2055 Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00-4:30, closed Saturday, Sunday, and all holidays Records include 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. Information about 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 Telephone: (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 See also: Colorado Genealogy at Live Roots, and Original Colorado Documents