Where are the Colorado birth and death certificates? Where are the Colorado birth and death indexes I expected?
During the period 1860-1910 Colorado law didn’t require local governments to record birth and deaths with the state and local governments didn’t issue certificates. Very few Colorado localities bothered recording these events until it became mandatory, so finding a official record of an ancestor’s birth or death prior to 1910 is a long shot requiring you to pin down a church register or similar record mentioning your ancestor. There are some exceptions, Denver, for example, routinely recorded births and deaths that occurred in local hospitals (but not those at home). 1910-present: Colorado Vital Records and their local registrars are prevented by state law from releasing birth information until 100 years after the event except to the individual named on the certificate or to proven direct descendants. While the Colorado law on releasing death records is not quite as strict, privacy concerns expressed in the law still prevent Vital Records from releasing any master index of recorded Col
