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Online Resources

• See United States Newspapers for more databases
• 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)
• 1800-Current Colorado, U.S., Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index, 1800's-current at Ancestry — index & images ($)
• Colorado Online Historical Newspapers
• Colorado Newspapers at Ancestry ($)
• Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
• Colorado Newspapers at Genealogy Bank
• Colorado Newspapers
  
• mostly Colorado Springs and Greeley at Newspaperarchive
• Colorado newspapers at GenealogyBank
• Names and Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming) at MyHeritage — index & images ($)

Resources for Colorado Newspapers

Libraries and Archives

The Western History Department of the Denver Public Libraryand the Colorado Historical Society have the most complete collections of Colorado newspapers. Both repositories have indexes to newspaper obituaries. The availability of newspapers is also described in Donald E. Oehlerts, Guide to Colorado Newspapers, 1859-1963 (Denver, Colorado: Bibliographical Center for Research, 1964; FamilySearch Library book 978.8 B3o; film 1000145 item 4).

Newspaper Directory

The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present is a national directory from the Library of Congress of over 140,000 newspaper titles. The directory provides a list of libraries from around the country that have the newspapers in their collections.

Digital Issues Online

Through a joint effort of the Colorado State Library, the Colorado Historical Society, and generous donors in Colorado, newspapers published in the State from 1859 to 1923 have been digitized and are available online. The result is the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection.

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“Current” indicates records are available as recently as privacy laws allow. This date can change from year to year. To determine the exact dates available, contact the respective organization/repository.