By Kimberly Powell, About.com: Genealogy Pictures are a wonderful way to document graveyards, from scenic views of the cemetery, to inscriptions of individual tombstones. It isn’t always as e…

by Carol Stetser Like most family historians, I’d always felt that I was using newspapers effectively. After all, I’d looked up literally dozens of obits and marriage and birth announcements…

By Julie Miller, CG The year is almost over, and already there have been numerous natural disasters that have hit close to home: the tornadoes in Northern Colorado, the floods in the Midwest, and …

by LCGS Researcher Carol Stetser For many family historians finding a copy of their ancestors’ names on a ship’s passenger list is high on their list of priorities. With so many passenger re…

by LCGS Researcher Carol Stetser I imagine that every family historian has said, or at least heard someone else say, “I can’t find my ancestors in the records; some of the records must hav…

Prior to 1861, the area now known as Larimer County was a part of the Nebraska Territory. Larimer County was created by an act of the first Territorial Legislature of Colorado, approved November 1, 18…