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Full-text access to over 10,000 local, national, and world newspapers, magazines, and broadcast transcripts, including the Denver Post, New York Post, and British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Browse suggested topics such as Health, Sports, STEM, International Issues, or search by keyword, location, author, or source. 

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Brought to you by the wildly popular genealogy website, Ancestry.com, Ancestry Library Edition offers 4,000 genealogical databases covering the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas.

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A service of the Colorado State Library, the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently includes more than 1,200,000 digitized pages, representing more than 250 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado primarily from 1859 to 1923. Includes the Steamboat Pilot & Today from 1894 - 1996. 

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Search or browse the Denver Post Historical Archive from 1894 to 1989. Find images and full-text articles on Front Range issues, events, people, and much more. Includes obituaries, editorials, announcements, sports, real estate, and advertisements. 

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Provides access to all of the Federal Census Images. Nine years are indexed by the head of the household, and you may access over 25,000 full-text, family and local-history books.

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The world's most comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers.

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The MyHeritage database includes birth, death and marriage records from 48 countries, the complete U.S. and U.K. censuses, immigration, military and tombstone records and more than 2 billion family tree profiles. Due to the ongoing content contributions by individual users, the database grows at an average pace of more than 1 million records each day.

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This online collection of digitized newspapers combines the content of the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) and the Wyoming Newspapers collection for simple one-stop searching.

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Discover the people, places, events and organizations that shape Routt County history.  The Routt County Digital Archive currently features Three Wire Winter magazine, a rich trove of oral interviews, magazine articles and photos published between 1976 and 1988 by Steamboat Springs High School students. Also included is the Old Town Hotsprings Memory Project,  a collection of interviews with people who have long been associated - as employees, Board members, or 'enjoy-ers' - with the iconic downtown Steamboat springs. 

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View Colorado's historic fire insurance maps from the early 1900's, including two maps from Routt County. The maps provide information about property names and building function, building outline, size and shape, construction materials, street and sidewalk widths, house numbers, and much more.

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