Partial Colorado Death Index
- Colorado, Select County Death Records, 1986-2017 at Ancestry/requires payment; most are from Denver, Arapahoe and Jefferson counties, coverage varies by county, not all counties are included, has 169,000 entries, a small number of the entries include images of the death certificates
Online Colorado Obituary, Cemetery and Death Records Indexes by County
- Adams County...
- Adams County: Rose Hill Cemetery Burials Orthodox Jewish Cemetery in Commerce City, Colorado
- Adams County - also see Riverside Cemetery in Denver County below
- For the city of Aurora, see the Aurora section below
- Arapahoe County...
- Arvada - see Jefferson County below
- Aurora (in Arapahoe, Adams, and Douglas Counties)
- Boulder County...
- Boulder Genealogical Society - Cemeteries and Obituaries includes: Boulder Daily Camera obituary indexes, 1950-1974; Boulder mortuary records; burial indexes for the following cemeteries: Columbia Cemetery, Green Mountain Cemetery, Hygiene Cemetery, Lyons Cemetery, Rowley Cemetery, "Roadside" Cemetery, Weisner Cemetery; and other items
- Longmont Genealogical Society Projects includes Shaw Mortuary Burial Records, Longmont Ledger Newspaper Index (births, marriages, and deaths), Ryssby Cemetery burials, and other items
- Broomfield County: Lakeview Cemetery Index - Burials to 1955
- Clear Creek County - see the Foothills Genealogical Society link below
- Colorado Springs - see the El Paso County section below
- Denver City and County
Note: the city of Denver was in Arapahoe County until 1902
- Denver Public Library Cemetery, Mortuary and Obituary Indexes includes...
- Denver Public Library Obituary Indexes, 1913-2016 PDF files; for the Denver Post or Rocky Mountain News
- Colorado Obituary Project (statewide index of non-Denver obituaries mostly from the 1970s through 1990)
- Crown Hill Cemetery - see the Jefferson County section below
- Fairmount Cemetery Sexton Records, 1891-1953 (includes burial dates for 85,000 burials)
- Riverside Cemetery Burial Register Index, 1876-1963 (also see the Riverside Cemetery Burials section below)
- Riverside Cemetery African-American Burials, 1876-2004
- Calvary Roman Catholic Cemetery Listing, 1889-1893 (index to lot purchases)
- Colorado Statesman Index, 1904-1954 (African American Newspaper)
- Intermountain Jewish News Obituary Index, October 1918 to June 2011
- Farmer and Hale Mortuary Index, 1889-1909
- Horan Mortuary Burial Registers Index, 1900-1956
- Rogers and Nash Mortuary Records Index, 1873-1979
- Arapahoe County Coroner's Reports Index, 1876-1891
- Denver Death Index, 1870-1909 most records are from 1890s-1909 (part of the Colorado Historical Records Index)
- Denver County Probate Case Files, 1900-1925 at FamilySearch; digitized images only
- Fairmount Cemetery Records 1890-1906 extracted from the book, Burial Records of Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado 1891-1906 by Stella Putnam Irish (available at the Denver Public Library)
- Riverside Cemetery Burials...
(note: the county line between Denver and Adams runs through the middle of the cemetery)
- For Ft. Logan National Cemetery see the Military Cemeteries section below
- Douglas County...
- Eagle County: Eagle Valley District Library Obituaries Search
- El Paso County and Colorado Springs...
- Elbert County: Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery Burials Diocese of Colorado Springs
- Elbert County Cemeteries
- Ft. Collins - see Larimer County below
- Garfield County Cemeteries
- Gilpin County - see the Foothills Genealogical Society link below
- Grand Junction - see Mesa County below
- Greeley - see Weld County below
- Huerfano County: Tri-County Obituaries - also includes Pueblo County and Las Animas County
- Jefferson County...
- Kit Carson County Death Records Index, 1893-1907 in the Colorado Historical Records Search
- Kit Carson County: Fairview Cemetery Burials (Burlington, Colorado)
- La Plata County...
- Lake County and Leadville...
- Larimer County...
- Las Animas County: see Huerfano County above
- Littleton - see Arapahoe County above
- Logan County: Riverside Cemetery Burials (Sterling, Colorado)
- Mesa County...
- Montrose County...
- Morgan County: City of Brush Memorial Cemetery Records downloadable PDF file -- look for "Interment Directory"
- Otero County Cemeteries
- Park County Local History Archives - Genealogy Indexes includes indexes for obituaries, cemeteries and marriages
- Pitkin County and Aspen...
- Pueblo County...
- Rio Blanco County: Highland Cemetery Transcriptions in Meeker, Colorado
- Routt County and Steamboat Springs...
- San Juan County: Hillside Cemetery Burials (Silverton, CO) (PDF files)
- Weld County...
- Wheat Ridge: see the Jefferson County section above
- Colorado Cemeteries and Military Cemeteries
- Colorado Wills and Probate Indexes
- Colorado Wills and Probate Indexes in the Colorado Historical Records Search includes...
- Adams County Wills 1903-1938
- Arapahoe County Probate Cases 1902-1937
- Arapahoe County Probates 1958-1959
- Boulder County Probates 1862-1900
- Chaffee County Probates 1878-1979
- Clear Creek County Will Records 1881-1947
- Clear Creek County Wills 1950-1964
- Conejos County Probates 1894-1918
- Costilla County Probates 1876-1914
- Custer County Wills 1887-1966 and Probates 1879-1989
- Douglas County Wills 1886-1961 and Probates 1865-1962
- Eagle County Probates 1884-1935
- Elbert County Wills 1887-1966
- El Paso County Probates 1880-1969
- Gilpin County Probate Court Civil Case Filings 1874-1892
- Jefferson County Probates 1862-1977
- Lincoln County Probates 1890-1981
- Mesa County Probates 1883-1910
- Montrose County Probate Cases 1883-1939
- Morgan County Probates 1890-1964
- Ouray County Probates 1878-1919
- Park County Will Record 1895-1926 and 1959-1976
- Pitkin County Probates 1881-1953
- Pueblo County Probates 1862-1961 and 1962-1965
- Rio Grande Probate Cases 1874-1921
- Routt County Wills 1888-1905
- Teller County Wills 1894-1971
- Weld County Probate Cases 1876-1981
- Also indexes some Colorado Inheritance Tax Records for these counties: Adams (1929-1943), Boulder (1941-1943), Conejos (1918-1923), Custer (1907-1946), Denver (1909-1912), Douglas (1911-1944), Fremont (1913-1943), Garfield (1909-1919 & 1926-1942), Gilpin (1910-1922), Huerfano (1940-1946), Jefferson (1913-1945), Logan (1913-1942), Mesa (1920-1934), Moffat (1920-1943), Pitkin (1938-1956), Routt (1918-1923), and Teller (1917-1936)
Ordering Colorado Vital Records
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