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The Green Mountain Cemetery Index to Interment Books, 1904-2005 was recently published by the Boulder Genealogical Society. This index to Green Mountain Cemetery’s interment books from 1904-2005 contains just under 14,000 names and includes extensive source notes and maps. The book was compiled by Mary McRoberts and Cari Taplin.

Green Mountain Cemetery was established in 1904 and is located at 290 20th Street, Boulder, Colorado.

You can purchase the book online at: LuLu
The cost is $24.95 for paperback or $39.95 for hardback. There is also an electronic download version for $12.61.

This site has been discontinued. For details, see Eastman’s Free On Ancestry.com Closed Down by Legal Threats.

A new Web site, Free on Ancestry, highlights only Ancestry.com databases which are freely accessible to anyone. For Colorado, there is currently only one database: R.L. Polk & Co.’s Pueblo city directory, 1899-1900. To reach the link, visit the Free on Ancestry home page, then select “United States” and scroll down to “Colorado.”

Although there is only one Colorado source listed, you may want to explore the other states and countries, surnames, and research guides listed.

The site was created by Clear Digital Media to “help us promote our flagship website, Interment.net” - a site which features cemetery abstracts from the United States and other countries. Currently there are user-contributed cemetery records from 53 of Colorado’s 64 existing counties.

Submitted by James Jeffrey (Denver Public Library’s Collection Specialist in Genealogy):

Don and Doris Elliott have continued their labor of love by identifying and documenting those persons buried in a Colorado cemetery with 1100 or fewer interments. What began as an update to 1985’s Colorado Cemetery Directory first published by the Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies has resulted in three publications:

• The Elliotts first updated and expanded the known resting places of Colorado’s dead in Cemeteries of Colorado: a Guide to Locating Colorado Burial Sites and Publications About Their Residents. The bibliography included published monographs, serials and manuscript materials.
• Colorado Cemetery Index I: Individuals Interred in Small Colorado Burial Sites was published as a companion volume to Cemeteries of Colorado.
• The latest addition to the series will be Colorado Cemetery Index II. This is currently available in draft form at the Genealogy and Western History Department at Denver Public Library (5th floor). Publication details will be announced in April 2007.

All Colorado researchers will benefit from these publications. As new material is published and older items are revealed we can be sure Don and Doris Elliott will make it available to the Colorado genealogical community. For more information, see the Colorado Research Publications site.

(See earlier story here.)

Colorado genealogist Joe Beine has a new Web site called “Cemeteries and Cemetery Symbols.” The site will explore “the meaning of cemetery symbols and other graveyard oddities,” and is intended for “genealogy sleuths, taphophiles and goth kids.”

Each symbol is illustrated with photographs from Colorado tombstones, including:

• Thos. R. Brownlee (1865-1908), Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder - Knights of Pythias
• Fred M. Moore (1878-1949) and Maria A. Moore (1879-1933), Littleton Cemetery, Littleton - Eastern Star
• George Traut (1883-1965) and Mary Traut (1883-1951), Littleton Cemetery, Littleton - IHS
• Alfred Packer, Co. F, 16 U.S. Inf., Littleton Cemetery, Littleton - marble Civil War marker
• C. H. McCormick, Fairmount Cemetery, Denver - Elks
• Sam’l A. Bonesteel (1842-1902), Fairmount Cemetery, Denver - Knights Templar
• Frederick Dearborn Wight (1837-1911), Fairmount Cemetery, Denver - Monogram

In addition, there are photographs of angels (here and here), as well as the symbols used by Odd Fellows, Shriners, and Freemasons.

Lee Zion, COGenWeb Colorado Places By County Webmaster, has announced that the project pages have moved to a new URL. Colorado Places By County is a directory of Colorado place names. The directory provides the county in which the place exists or existed, years the place existed, and other related remarks. The authors have attempted to include every settlement, trading post, military post, mining camp, ghost town, stage station, railroad stop, post office, rural community, town and city from the earliest known into the present.

The following example is a typical entry:

The new address is — www.rootsweb.com/~coplaces/