I am Rebecca Maloney, Webmistress and Coordinator for this Grand County, Colorado. I hope you enjoy your visit. Please email me if you have any suggestions or contributions you would like to make.
Known as: Dude Ranch Capital of the USA
When Grand County was created 2 February, 1874 it was carved out of
Summit County and contained land to the western border of the state
which is now in present day Moffat and Routt counties. In 1877 Routt
County was created and Grand County shrunk down to its current western
boundary. When valuable minerals were found in North Park, Grand County
claimed the area as part of its county, a claim Larimer County also
held. It took a decision by the Colorado Supreme Court in 1886 to
declare North Park part of Larimer County. So its northern boundary was
set.
Population in 2000: 12,442 people and approximately 750 Bighorn
Sheep
The County Seat is Hot Sulphur Springs Grand County was established
in 1874 by the Territory of Colorado, thus becoming a county two years
before Colorado became a state. It was named for the Grand River,
known today as the Colorado River, with its headwaters located in
Rocky Mountain National Park. The county was formed from a portion of
Summit County but acquired its current boundaries in 1877, when part
of Grand County was used to create Routt County. The area of 1,854
square miles (larger than Rhode Island) consists of meadows, river
valleys and mountains. Grand County includes the mountain towns of
Winter Park, Fraser, Tabernash, Granby, Grand Lake, Parshall, Hot
Sulphur Springs and Kremmling, and each town has a rich and unique
history of its own.
Located 67 miles west of Denver, Grand
County is home to wide-open spaces, breathtaking mountain scenery and
authentic old-west towns. Outdoor recreational activities include
golf, boating, fishing, biking, hiking, fishing, hunting, horseback
riding, skiing, cross country skiing, snowmobiling, ice fishing,
sleigh rides and tubing. The area features more than 600 miles of
mapped and marked trails, one national park, two national forests, two
wilderness areas, two nationalscenic byways, two major ski resorts,
five world-class dude ranches and four mountain golf courses. Grand
County’s extensive water network includes Colorado’s largest natural
lake, 1,000 miles of streams, 1,000 acres of high-mountain lakes and
11,000 acres of reservoirs.
I hope you find my efforts helpful in your research of Grand County roots. I am unable to do additional research on your family as I do not have direct access to records. I post everything I have for all to use.
Make sure you check the "Research Resources" section! There are books, helpful links, and more to help you out.
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We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."
by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943."
If you have questions, contributions, or problems with this site, email:
Coordinator - Rebecca Maloney
State Coordinator: Colleen Pustola
Asst. State Coordinators: Rebecca Maloney - Betty Baker - M.D. Monk
If you have questions or problems with this site, email the County Coordinator. Please to not ask for specfic research on your family. I am unable to do your personal research.
