Population - 3,663

Welcome to Costilla County, Colorado.

Costilla County is one of the original Colorado Counties. Parts were split off to form 1866's Saguache County, 1874's Rio Grande County and in 1913 to form Alamosa County.

I'm Scott, the new coordinator for Costilla County CoGenWeb. I'm also the Coordinator for Alamosa, Rio Grand, Mineral and Saguache County's. This Colorado GenWeb site is for genealogical research and I will add information I find or anyone gives me.

The previous coordinators have done a lot of work I want to thank the them for all of the wonderful work they have done on these pages.
For the present, I won't be changing too much, I do not live in Costilla County nor in the San Luis Valley, (although I grew up in La Jara) so I can not do any personal research for anyone.

Mineral Colorado GenWeb and the other San Luis Valley GenWeb county pages Alamosa , Conejos, Costilla , Mineral, Rio Grande & Saguache are looking for contributors and other volunteers to help with expanding the resources of the San Luis Valley Genealogy Web project (part of the Colorado GenWeb and USGenWeb) so other researchers can find and make use of them. If you have any information or know of any links you would like to see on this site let me know. Especially we would like volunteers to help with the grave stone transcription and photo project, Colorado Grave Stone photo Project.

If you can help please contact Gail Meyer Kilgore the county coordinator for that county you have help for. Thank you.

The town of San Luis turned 150 years old in 2001. If you would like more information, call the San Luis Visitors Center at (719) 672-3002. Or click on San Luis.

Holy Family Catholic Church

The Rootsweb list Coalamos is now being used as the San Luis Valley wide list. This list covers the six counties of the San Luis Valley; Alamosa , Conejos, Costilla , Mineral, Rio Grande & Saguache County. This has been done so researchers can have one list for the San Luis Valley counties. Residents of the valley often lived in more than one county. You may post queries to this list, but PLEASE NOTE: NO query OR surname will be picked up by the County Coordinators for posting to the county pages. If you wish to post a query or surname on the County Pages, please use the RootsWeb Message Boards for that county or contact the coordinator for that county.

If you would be interested in joining this list, you may do so by sending a message with the word "subscribe", minus the quotes, in the body of the message to: COALAMOS-request@rootsweb.com.

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If you have any comments or suggestions I would love to hear from you.

Volunteers are needed to submit records, help with lookups and transcribe cemeteries.
Please pitch in if you can help.
Costilla County, Colorado - email

Thanks for stopping by!

This page last modified: Sunday, 17-Aug-2008 17:33:47 MDT

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The COGenWeb Project is looking for volunteers to coordinate Colorado county pages and help with other projects. If you wish to participate, or are just curious, contact the Colorado State Coordinator Gail Meyer Kilgore
Assistant State Coordinator: Ann Allen Geoghegan
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