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Projects

• Lake CO GenExchange      (Source: GenExchange)
• Lake County COGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Lake County Genealogy Trails      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

Adjacent counties

• Chaffee County, CO  to the south
• Eagle County, CO  to the north
• Park County, CO  to the east
• Pitkin County, CO  to the west
• Summit County, CO  to the north

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Lake County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Lake County GEDCOM Index 

Cemeteries (10)

Census Records and Indexes (11)

Directories

• Leadville City Directories  1882-90     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

History

• Illustrated History of Arkansas Valley, Colorado  1881     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Lake County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Lake County History Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Montana County  KS-Cyclopedia, 1912     (Source: Digital Library of the KSGenWeb)
• National Register of Historic Places 
• The Rich History of Colorado's Fourteener Country 

• Histories of specific towns and townships

  • A History of Leadville, Colorado      (Source: Google Book Search)
  • The Colorful History of Leadville & Twin Lakes, Colorado 
  • Historic Walking Tour of Leadville, Colorado 

• Tornados, Blizzards, Floods, World's Fairs and other events

  • CO Various Locations of Snow Slides, Feb 1897      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Lake County Storms      (Source: NCDC Storm Events)
  • Leadville, CO Duncan Mine Fire, Dec 1896      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Leadville, CO Fire, Jan 1890      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Leadville, CO Fire, Mar 1889      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Leadville, CO Mine Accident, Jul 1889      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Leadville, CO Rusk-Ivanhoe Tunnel Explosion, Nov 1891      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Leadville, CO Snowslide, Jan 1916      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Leadville, CO Train Wreck, Mar 1893      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides

• Cyndi's List of Colorado locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• Lake County      (Source: CinnamonToast Genealogy)
• Lake County Colorado Genealogy  Resources for Family History Research     (Source: Kindred Trails)
• Lake County Resources      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Lake Genealogy      (Source: GenDir)

Land Records

• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Colorado Libraries  Lake County
• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• Healy House Museum and Dexter Cabin  Leadville, Colorado
• Lake County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• The National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum  Leadville
• The Tabor Opera House  Leadville's Historic Theater
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• Lake County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Lake County, CO Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• COLAKE-L Lake County genealogy

  • COLAKE-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • COLAKE-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • COLAKE-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (11)

Military Records and Histories

• Lake County      (Source: Colorado Military Pages)

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Lake County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Lake County, Colorado  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Lake County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Lake County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through Lake County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)

Newspaper Records

• Lake County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Herald Democrat, Leadville  Recent obituaries
• Leadville Herald Democrat      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (10)

School Records and Histories

• 1924 Leadville High School Yearbook      (Source: Ghostseekers)
• Lake County School Districts      (Source: Colorado State Archives)
• Lake County, Colorado School Census  1880-1958     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• School Census Records      (Source: Colorado State Archives)

Societies

• Temple Israel Foundation, Leadville 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (23)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Lake County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Lake County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)

Vital Records

• 1870 Mortality Census      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Lake County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Marriage Records for Lake County      (Source: A to Z Marriages)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Lake County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Western States Marriage Record Index  includes Lake County 1869-1879     (Source: Brigham Young University - Idaho)

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