Local Research Aids
Local Research Aids
Local & Colorado Archives
La Plata County Clerk's records
The historic records index is free to browse, but the actual records must now be purchased.
Use this link to learn how to use the historic index.
Use this link to browse the historic index.
Use this link to go to iDocs to purchase records.
Use this link to browse the historic index.
Use this link to go to iDocs to purchase records.
Historic Durango Maps (Sanborn)
Local Historic Records Transcriptions
Note: A Register of the Poor for subsequent years can be found at the at the Center of Southwest Studies' website (click this link).
Contributed Records
Durango Photographers 1881-1912
The following book was donated to the Society. If you would like us to do a look up in it, please make your request using the submission form on the 'Contact' page.
A Kansas Farm Family by Randall C. Maydew
The following book was donated to the Society. If you would like us to do a look up in it, please make your request using the submission form on the 'Contact' page.
A Kansas Farm Family by Randall C. Maydew
La Plata County
Research Aids
Click here for instructions on how to use the La Plata County GIS site.
Click here for information about La Plata County tax records.
San Juan County Historical Society Books
SJCHS offers a variety of 48-page books which record and preserve the story of San Juan County New Mexico. Some of the books contain valuable genealogical information.
These books may be purchased at their facility at 201 North Main Avenue in Aztec, at local museums and bookstores, or by sending a check made payable to SJCHS and mailed to P.O. Box 1252, Aztec, New Mexico 87410-1252. Books are $7 plus $2 for shipping and handling for each order.
- San Juan County: The Early Years
- San Juan County Roars into the ‘20s
- Abandoned Cemeteries and Lesser-Known Settlements of San Juan County, New Mexico
- The Cox-Truby Feud
- Churches of San Juan County, New Mexico, Volume 1, 1876-1925
- Water: Lifeline of the Valley
- A Railroad Here? Meet the Red Apple Flyer
- Aztec: Then and Now
- Late Prehistory and Early History of Man in the San Juan Basin
- Echoes of the Pat Volume 1, Pioneers of San Juan County, New Mexico, 1876-1899
- Ditches, Switches, and the Super Bowl
- Echoes of the Past, Volume 2, Pioneers of San Juan County, New Mexico, 1876-1899
- Sodas and Shows: Pop Culture in San Juan County
- Crimes of the County: Northwest New Mexico 1876-1928
- Echoes of the Past, Volume 3, Pioneers of San Juan County, New Mexico, 1876-1899
- Iron Ladies of San Juan County, New Mexico
- Place Names of San Juan County, New Mexico
- The Lost Communities of Navajo Dam: Los Martinez and Los Pinos Volume 1
Newspaper Research
Old Fulton New York History Postcards and Newspapers (Search or browse newspapers from the US and Canada. Many are New York newspapers, but you might be surprised to see how New York newspapers covered news from other parts of the country.)