General Resources

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Hinsdale County Clerk's Office

317 North Henson Street

PO Box 9, Lake City, CO 81235

Phone (970) 944-2225

The Clerk & Recorder have birth records from 1900 forward, marriage records from 1880, death, burial, divorce and land records. The Clerk of the District Court has probate and civil court records.

Hinsdale County Historical Society & Museum
130 Silver Street, P. O. Box 353
Lake City, CO 81235
Phone (970) 944-2050

Official Lake City and Hinsdale County Tourism & Information

Lake City Silver World Newspaper

Southern Ute Indian Tribe

Colorado Gravestones for Hinsdale County

Ellis Island: Passenger & Ship Search

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

Bureau Of Land Management (BLM) Colorado

FamilySearch.org

Library of Congress

Hinsdale County Cemeteries - Cannibal Plateau Cemetery     City Cemetery     I.O.O.F. Cemetery

Bibliography

"Cemeteries of Hinsdale County, Colorado: Comprising the Communities of Lake City, Capitol City, and Burrows Park Together with Cathedral, the Lake Fork Valley, Rio Grande & Debs, Representing the Years, 1874 to 1985". By Grant E. Houston, Hinsdale County Historical Society, The Society, 1989.

"A History of Hinsdale County, Colorado", Unknown Author 'The Author', 1960 

COGenWeb, USGenWeb & Special Projects

The COGenWeb Project - Your gateway to other Colorado county websites, special projects & more.

The USGenWeb® Project - Learn how the project started, and what useful tools & information are available to help you with your research. Special Projects:

• The Archives Project - A digital library that curates a variety of contributed transcriptions, documents, images, and photos. Collections include Census Images, Court Cases, Digital Maps, Marriages, Newsletter, Obituaries, Pension, and Special Collections.

• The Family Group Sheets Project (FGS) - A growing curated collection of family lineages.

• The USGenWeb Kidz Project - Dedicated to helping you and your children or students learn about genealogy and contains topics for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level researchers.

• The Tombstone Transcription & Photo Project - A collection of transcribed inscriptions from headstones, monuments, and cemetery surveys, and includes cemetery information. The Photo project contains images of headstones, markers, and memorials.

• The US African American GRIOTS Project - Provides an opportunity to find records unique to the “African American Experience”, and curates military, vital, surname, probate records and photos.

Genealogy Research Tools

Relationship Chart - Helps you determine your relationship to another through a common ancestor.

Ancestral Chart - An ancestor chart records the ancestors from whom you directly descend.

Family Group Sheet - Each piece of information concerning an ancestor and his/her family is placed on a worksheet.

Cemetery Transcription Form - Use to log locations, inscriptions and descriptions for family tombstones.

Colorado Gravestones Photo Project