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Guide to Moffat County Colorado genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.
| Moffat County, Colorado | |
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 Location in the state of Colorado | |
 Location of Colorado in the U.S. | |
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| Founded | February 27, 1911 |
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| County Seat | Craig |
| Courthouse | |
| Address | Moffat County Courthouse 221 W Victory Way Craig, CO 81625 Phone: 970.824.9109 Moffat County Website |
County Courthouse
County Clerk has marriage, land and military records from 1911;
Public Health Department has birth and death records;
County Court has divorce, probate and court records[1]
Historical Facts
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County Seat
Craig [2]
Parent County
- 1911--Moffat County was created 27 February 1911 from Routt County.
Neighboring Counties
- Carbon County, Wyoming
- Daggett County, Utah
- Rio Blanco
- Routt
- Sweetwater County, Wyoming
- Uintah County, Utah
Record Loss
Resources
Bible Records
Biography
Business Records and Commerce
Cemeteries
Census
For tips on accessing Moffat County, Colorado census records online, see: Colorado Census.
Church Records
LDS Ward and Branch Records
- Craig
Court Records
Directories
Emigration and Immigration
Ethnic, Political, or Religious Groups
Gazetteers
Genealogy
History
Local History
Local histories are available for Moffat County, Colorado. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section Colorado Local Histories.
Land and Property
Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.
See Colorado Land and Property for additional information about early Colorado land grants.
After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions were usually recorded at the county courthouse, where current records are also housed.
Maps
Military
Naturalization and Citizenship
Newspapers
Additional newspapers abstracts can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Moffat County, Colorado newspapers in online catalogs like:
- WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
- Do a Moffat County, Colorado Place-name search for these and other records in the Family History Library Catalog (For instructions see FHL Catalog Place-name Search).
Obituaries
Periodicals
Probate
Probate records have been kept by the county courts. Colorado probate records include bonds, affidavits, letters, claims, appraisals, fee accounts, minutes, judgments, dockets, calendars, case files, and wills. The Family History Library does not have copies of probate records from Colorado.
You may obtain copies of documents from the clerk's office in the county courthouse.
Public Records
School Records
Repositories
Archives
Courthouse
Family History Centers
Libraries
Moffat County Library
570 Green Street
Craig CO 81625
Telephone 970-824-5116
Website http://www.moffat.lib.co.us/
Museums
Societies
Taxation
Colorado tax records complement land records and can be used as supplements to censuses. There may be gaps of several years in the records. To find tax records in the Family History Library Catalog, do a Place Search for the county.
Colorado State Archives has put the Moffat County Inheritance Tax Records Index for the years 1920-1943 on-line.
Vital Records
Vital Records consist of births, adoptions, marriages, divorces, and deaths recorded on registers, certificates, and documents. A copy or an extract of most original records can be purchased from the Vital Records Section Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment or the County Clerk's office of the county where the event occurred.
For some online statewide indexes, see the FamilySearch Historical Record Collections for Colorado.
Birth
Marriage
For marriages from 1911-1915 see Western States Marriage Index.
Death
Divorce
Places
Web Sites
References
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This Colorado-related article is a stub. You can help by expanding it. While this page is under construction, may we suggest Cyndi's List. |
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Moffett County, Colorado. Page 100 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
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