Colebrook, Coös County, New Hampshire Genealogy

Description
Colebrook, New Hampshire at Wikipedia

Populated Places
Includes Neighborhoods, Villages, Unincorporated Communities, Districts, and Census-Designated Places:

Town Records
In New England most original vital records of birth, marriage, and death can be found at the town clerk's office Colebrook Town Office 17 Bridge Street Colebrook, NH 03576 Colebrook Town Office
 * Colebrook Town Office has original records from 1874. Earlier records burned in a town hall fire.

Births

 * 1636-1947 at FamilySearch - index and images
 * 1901-1915 at FamilySearch - How to use this collection; index and images

Marriages

 * 1636-1947 at FamilySearch - index and images

Deaths

 * 1636-1947 at FamilySearch - index and images

Town Reports
Obituaries are available at the town library

The town of Colebrook kept annual town reports. These reports often contained birth, marriage, and death information. Below is a list of years when Colebrook kept town reports. (NOTE: Occasionally, these town reports missed vital statistic information from the end of the year. If you don't find your ancestor's vital information, check the following year's town report to see if your ancestor's information was recorded later.)

Resources
For more County and State resources see:

Cemeteries
A compilation of cemetery transcription in the town is available in the book Northern New Hampshire graveyards and cemeteries: transcriptions and indexes of burial sites in the towns of Clarksville, Colebrook, Columbia, Dixville, Pittsburg, Stewartstown, and Stratford copy of this book is at the local library.
 * Colebrook Cemeteries List at FindAGrave
 * at FamilySearch Catalog
 * Coös County Cemeteries at FamilySearch Places

Church Records
Historically, the largest religious groups in New Hampshire were the Congregational, Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Methodist churches. For general information about New Hampshire denominations, view the New Hampshire Church Records wiki page. To see the churches in Colebrook, visit FamilySearch Places. Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. The following are church records available online for the town of Colebrook:

City Directories

 * 1928,1932 New Hampshire, U.S., City Directories, Colebrook at Ancestry - index and images ($),some years may be missing
 * Various Dates U.S. City Directories, 1860-1960 at MyHeritage - index and images ($) some towns and years may be missing

Local Histories
Go to Archive.org to find published materials for this town.

Maps
This selection incudes town, county, state, and historical maps

Military
Searchable by Town

Societies
Colebrook Public Library Colebrook Historical Society is housed on the second floor of the Town Hall