Colorado Probate Records

Probate records have been kept by the county courts except in Denver, where a separate probate court has been established. Colorado probate records include bonds, affidavits, letters, claims, appraisals, fee accounts, minutes, judgments, dockets, calendars, case files, and wills. The FamilySearch Library does not have copies of probate records from Colorado. You may obtain copies of documents from the clerk's office in each county courthouse.

A source of information from early Denver probate records is Ella Ruland MacDougall, Abstracts of Early Probate Records (S.p.; FamilySearch Library ; .)

Online Resources


 * Colorado State Archives, County Probate Records
 * Colorado State Archives, Will Records
 * Colorado State Archives, Inheritance Tax Records


 * 1875 – 1974 Colorado Wills and Probate Records 1875-1974 at Ancestry.com — index and images $