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This article describes the services and resources available at a Family History Center, a branch facility of the Family History Library.

The Calhan Colorado Family History Center has served the Central Eastern Plains of Colorado since 1999. Counties included in this area are El Paso, Elbert and Lincoln. Services are free and open to the public. We invite all Family Historians to visit us and share in their research adventures. Welcome!

1 Center Contacts and Hours
2 Calendar and Events
- 2.1 Upcoming Events
- 2.2 Class Schedule
3 Center Resources
4 Center Services
- 4.1 Staff Research Specialties
5 Resources in the Local Area
6 Links
7 Volunteer at the Center

Center Contacts and Hours

Location & Map:

Address: 900 Monument Street, Calhan, CO 80808
No mail is received at the above address. Due to limited staff, FHCs are unable to respond to mail research inquires.
The Family History Center is accessed from the north parking lot of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The entrance door is on the northwest side of the building. Please ring bell for access.
Location on Map

Phone: (719) 347-0199

Messages may be left on answering machine. Checked and responded to on open days.

E-mail: ldsfhccalhan@live.com

Open Hours:

Wednesday 6:30-9:00 pm
Also open by appointment
Closed for inclement weather according to local and neighboring school district closings. Please, call before venturing out, we may not have made it across the snow drifted prairie.

Holiday Schedule:

Closed the week of Thanksgiving, 2 weeks for Christmas through New Year's Day, and other sporadic days throughout the year.

Calendar and Events

Upcoming Events

Class Schedule

Center Resources

Collections

Family History Library Catalog: This center has the ability to order any of the films and fiche available through the Family History Library Catalog. Film may also be ordered from the convience of your own home online to be sent to the FHC by going to https://FamilySearch.org/films (you must be logged into your FamilySearch account)

Film $7.50 (90 day rental, short term)
Microfiche $4.75 per set (indefinite rental)

Basic Genealogy Resource Books
United States Map Set

Databases and Software

FHC Portal This center has access to the Family History Center Portal page which gives free access in the center to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions. Subscription access currently includes:

Ancestry FHC Edition
Fold3
Heritage Quest
Godfrey Memorial Library
19th Century British Library Newspaper Digital Archives
Find My Past
The Genealogist
Anki-Archive
Historic Map Works LE
World Vital Records
Alexander Street Press-The American Civil War

Pedigree Resource CD Set
Personal Genealogical Database Software

Rootsmagic
Legacy
AncestralQuest
PAF5 and PAF Companion

Hardware and Equipment

6 computers with high speed internet
high speed internet for personal laptops
printer
printer/scanner
2 microfilm readers
1 microfiche reader
copy machine

Center Services

Staff Research Specialties

Resources in the Local Area

Pikes Peak Library District

High Prairie Library

7035 Old Meridian Road

Peyton, CO 80831

(719) 260-3650

Genealogy and Local History

1905 Carnegie Building

20 North Cascade Avenue

Colorado Springs, CO 80903

(719) 531-6333

Note: microfilm can be ordered and sent for viewing to the Special Collections Library (a new Family History Library affiliate) at the above address where they have full time genealogy staff....