Hello, my name is Alice Allen and I am your Bent County Coordinator. This web site is devoted to helping you find your family who resided in Bent County. You'll find links to query sites and Message Boards where you can leave messages about your family in Bent County. We also have a lookups page, where you can find people with Bent County resources who have indicated they are willing to use them to help you, our Bent County researcher. There are records and/or links to records for Bent County. The Bent County Archives pages contain biographies, cemetery records, census records, vital records, and so forth. In the works is a special project for Bent County families, a mini-biography of sorts. If you would like to contribute a write-up of your Bent County families, contact me and I'll be happy to put it online. Not all the records are available, but we are working at adding them as we can. If you have anything to contribute, be sure to contact me. My email address is
Copy and paste my address into your email template, add something in the subject line related to Bent County so I'll be sure to notice it, and send it along.
Now, come along as we explore links for your research in Bent County.
One of the first steps in your research should be making use of Message Boards and Mailing Lists. Here is where you can leave a query about your Bent County family members. You may meet a new cousin. You may meet someone who has a record or book with your family in it, who will see and answer your request.
Join the COBent Mailing List on Rootsweb
Rootsweb has long been a repository for mailing lists for Surnames and
Counties. Here are the instructions for joining the Bent County mailing
list.
Address an email to COBENT-request@rootsweb.com
In the subject line and the body of your email, type the word
"Subscribe" (without the quotation marks) and send it on its way.
There's a Digest mode as well, which bundles up all the emails and send
them to you at one time. Right now the mailing list isn't very busy, so
your mailbox won't be overloaded in the List mode. To subscribe in
Digest mode, address the email to COBENT-D-request@rootsweb.com
Follow the directions above to subscribe in this mode.
Message Boards
Message Boards are a great resource for leaving queries.
Rootsweb's
Bent County Message Board
CousinConnect Message Boards
Cyndi'sList for
Queries and Message Boards
CyndisList has links to other Message Boards, as well as how-to help
for writing effective queries.
Las Animas City Clerk
532 Carson Avenue
P.O. Box 468
Las Animas, CO 81054
Phone: 719-456-0422
Fax: 719- 456-1210
Email: lacityclerk@southeastcolorado.net
Office hours are Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
City Clerk/Treasurer: Charmaine Cook
Bent County Chamber of Commerce
Ambassador Thompson Boulevard
Las Animas, Colorado 81054
Phone: (719) 456-0453
Las Animas-Bent County District Library
5th Street
Las Animas, CO 81054
Phone: (719) 456-0111
Email: bent.library@bent.co.lib.co.us
Bent County Democrat
(Newspaper)
516 Carson Avenue
Las Animas, CO 81054
Phone: (719) 456-1333
ALSO: When contacted by someone offering info on your surname, make sure whether there are any charges involved before agreeing to have them do the research!
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My thanks to those previous coordinators of Bent County who started this site.
Last Update: 16 August 2021