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Finding Primary Sources: Primary sources are the first hand evidence left behind by participants or observers at the time of events. Here you will find guidance in locating letters, diaries, photographs, drawings, posters, speeches or other media created by those who actually saw, heard, or experienced the event.

American Memory: A digitized collection of materials that chronicle American historical events. These materials include recordings, images, maps, sheet music, and other records from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions.

Cemetery Information: Cemetery maps and records about the deceased that are buried in Roselawn or Grandview cemeteries in Fort Collins.

Chronicling America: A collection of selected historic newspaper pages representing the time period 1836-1922. Pages selected are from approximately half of the states in the United States, and document significant events in each of those state's history and geography.

Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC): currently includes more than 500,000 digitized pages, representing 163 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado from 1859 to 1923. Due to copyright restrictions, CHNC does not generally include newspapers published after 1923.

Fort Collins Coloradoan: Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. (1999 - current)

Fort Collins History Connection: An online history and photograph database for Fort Collins and Larimer County.

History Reference Center (EBSCO): History Reference Center (EBSCO): Comprehensive, full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges and undergraduate research. Features full text for more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. Includes images, videorecordings and primary sources.

Primary Sources (Gale Virtual Reference Library): A single search of this collection of electronic reference books will return primary source documents on many current controversial topics and on 20th century U.S. history.

Select Families of New Mexico: This genealogical database contains over 500,000 individuals mainly of Spanish and Native American heritage. It was compiled by Ladeane Miller. Due to licensing restrictions, this site is not available for at-home use.