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Colorado Teller County
Guide to Teller County Colorado genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.
| Teller County, Colorado | |
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 Location of Colorado in the U.S. | |
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| Founded | March 23, 1899 |
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| County Seat | Cripple Creek |
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| Address | Teller County Courthouse 101 W Bennett Ave Cripple Creek, CO 80813-0959 Phone: 719.689.2951 Teller County Website |
County Courthouse
County Clerk has marriage and land record from 1899
Clerk District Court has divoce, probate and court records[1]
Quick Facts
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County Seat
Cripple Creek [2]
Parent County
- 23 March 1899: Teller County was created from El Paso County.
Neighboring Counties
Record Loss
Resources
Bible Records
Biography
Business Records and Commerce
Cemeteries
Census
For tips on accessing Teller County, Colorado census records online, see: Colorado Census.
Church Records
Court Records
Directories
Emigration and Immigration
Ethnic, Political, or Religious Groups
Gazetteers
Genealogy
History
Local History
Local histories are available for Teller 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 Teller County, Colorado newspapers in online catalogs like:
- WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
- Do a Teller 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.
Colorado State Archives has put the Teller County Will Records Index for the years 1894-1971 on-line.
Public Records
School Records
Repositories
Archives
Courthouse
Family History Centers
Libraries
- Southern Teller County School/Public Lib Dist
410 B Street
Cripple Creek, CO 80813
Telephone: 719-689-2800
- Rampart Library District/Woodland Park/Florissant
218 E. Midland
Woodland Park, CO 80863
Telephone: 719-687-9281
Website http://rampart.colibraries.org/
Museums
Societies
- Ute Pass Historical Society
222 East Midland Ave.
Woodland Park, CO 80863
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 6875
Woodland Park, CO 80866
Telephone 719) 686-7512
Website http://www.utepasshistoricalsociety.org/
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 Teller County Inheritance Tax Records Index for 1917-1936 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
Death
Divorce
Places
Websites
- Teller County CO Trails to the Past
- Linkpendium
- USGenWeb Archives
- USGenWeb Archives Backup site
- Family History Library Catalog
References
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Teller County, Colorado. Page 101 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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