Resources

There are many websites with genealogy-related info for Colorado family history research. If you know of additional helpful resources about Elbert County ancestors, please share them with us.

• Wikipedia
• FamilySearch
• Internet Archive
• Colorado State Archives (CSA) has record collections specifically for Elbert County: Birth Index 1869-1906, Elbert County Divorce 1870-1910, Elbert County Inheritance Proceedings 1922-1941, Elbert County Judges Docket 1928-1938, Elbert County Old Age Pension 1933-1936, Elbert County 8th Grade Promotions 1918-1930, and Elbert County Wills 1887-1966. History, Legal, Military, Mines, and School collections may also have records for Elbert County ancestors. Index of death records held at CSA 2-page pdf.
• Library of Congress
• Library of Congress Chronicling America Collection
• Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
• Tombstone Transcription Project - Elbert County, Colorado
• FindAGrave
• Colorado Gravestones - Elbert County
• Interment - Elbert County
• Elbert County Colorado Then and Now by Elbert County Tribune
• National Register of Historic Places
• Bureau of Land Management - land patents
• 1880 History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado by O. L. Baskin & Co.
• 1899 Portrait and Biographical Record of the State of Colorado by Chapman Publishing Company
• 1904 Colorado History and Government by James E. Snook
• 1905 Progressive Men of Western Colorado by A. W. Bowen
• 1913 Semi-Centennial History of the State of Colorado, by Jerome Smiley, Volume 1, Volume 2
• 1917 History of the German Element in the State of Colorado by Mildred S. MacArthur
• 1917 Bench and Bar of Colorado by George E. Lewis and D. F. Stackelbeck
• 1918 History of Colorado by Wilbur F. Stone, Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4
• 1927 History of Colorado by State Historical and Natural History Society of Colorado, Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5
• 1948 Colorado and its People by LeRoy Reuben Hafen, volume 3
• 1964 The Historical Encyclopedia of Colorado: Representative Citizens" by Colorado Historical Association, Thomas S. Chamblin, Editor
• 1974 Western Pioneer Days, Biographies and Genealogies of Early Settlers, with a History of Elbert County by Ethel Rae Corbett [not found available to read free online as of Nov 2025] Judy Stansbery has generously offered to do lookups in this book.
• 1988 A Tenderfoot Bride: Tales from an Old Ranch by Clarice E. Richards 245-page pdf courtesy of GoogleBooks
• 2009 Working the Land: Building a Life by Fran Cirbo
• Linkpendium
• Elbert County Churches 1-page pdf
• Biographies Index for Elbert, Lincoln, and Washington Counties 6-page pdf

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