| Family Recognition Program |
| INSTRUCTIONS |
| Read entire application form before completing. Use a black ink pen or typewriter. Do not use pencil. Note abbreviation codes on pages 2 and 3. Use maiden names of all females, if known. Include counties if known. If unsure of a place or date, enter what you think it to be, followed by a question mark. Use extra sheets of white paper if needed to submit additional information. Identify all sheets with your name and address. For your own records it is suggested that you make xerox copies of the completed application form and all the material you submit with the application. Mail check, completed application form, all xerox proofs, and any additional sheets (do not fold material) in a manila mailing envelope to address at top of front page. Page 2- Complete and submit the Ancestry Chart, entering yourself (applicant) as #1 and listing each generation back to your earliest Colorado ancestor. All other ancestry need not be filled in unless you wish to do so. Page 3- Complete the Family Group Sheet on the earliest Colorado ancestor who settled in or was born in Colorado. List all copies of proofs being submitted with application. If you wish to submit completed family group sheets for the generations between yourself and your ancestor to be listed on page 3, use standard 8 ½ x11 family group sheets, or make xerox copies of page 3 before you complete it. Page 4- Be sure to have the required Publication Release notarized. GENERAL – If you wish to make application on more than one Colorado ancestor, a separate application form must be completed and submitted with the required proofs on each ancestor being filed for. Only one certificate issued to each application. Additional family information which would be welcomed but not required with this application: Xerox copies of old photographs, information such as types of dwellings occupied, types of farming or ranching engaged in, employment pursuits, education, military service and stories, religious outlets and events, recreation, old food recipes handed down in family, what the geographical area was like when family settled there, and any stories about any natural disasters or events that may have happened back then. |
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