Welcome to our site! Check the information we have posted and see if it may be of help to you in your research. We hope that if you have Longmont ancestry you will find something of interest.  Thanks for visiting - we hope you'll come back again soon.

Our Mission Statement

To promote and encourage an interest in genealogy, and to educate members and the interested public in genealogical research. To maintain and elevate genealogical standards; to stress the importance of accuracy in research through careful documentation. To locate, preserve, publish and index public and private genealogical / historical records. To assist and support any genealogical institutions or repositories in Colorado which are open to the public.

Foothills Garden of Memory - LGS is currently working with the Carroll-Lewellen Funeral Services  to record burials and we need volunteers to help. Please email Helen for more information and times.  Each volunteer needs to sign an agreement to abide by the Mortuary's rules. Thank you!

Monthly Meetings

2nd Wednesday of each month at 1:00 PM except for July and December when meetings include a pot luck luncheon and begin at Noon.

All meetings are held at the  First Lutheran Church First Lutheran Church located at 803 3rd Avenue in Longmont. We meet in the "Friendship Center" room which is on the street level. It is accessed by the west door that faces 3rd Avenue,  It is adjacent to a small parking lot with 2 Handicap spots. More parking is available on the West side of the building with a stairway leading to this upper level.

Beginner's Classes - Wednesday Feb 22 and Feb 29 from 1-3 PM at the Longmont Family History Center.

Class will be taught by Margaret Lindblom, our Society's Education Chair. To sign up for the class, please email her so she can make sure there are plenty of handouts for all. Fun class for newbies and the not so newbies too!.

Longmont Family History Center Hours of Operation

Tuesdays and Thursdays: 9am-4pm, 6pm-9pm;

Saturday: 9am-1pm

Closed: week of Thanksgiving; 2 weeks over Christmas and New Years.

Call 303-772-4373 for possible closings on snowy days

FindAGrave.com

Did you know there are over 22,287 grave listings for Mountain View Cemetery on the www.findagrave.com site? You can click on the MV Cemetery link above and add your own ancestors information, photos and more at this site.  There are about 20,000 graves at the Cemetery so you may be able to add your own people if they haven't been included yet. The link takes you directly to MV but from the home page you can search for other cemeteries to find information on your genealogy and family history.

The By-Laws & Standing Rules for 2012 for the Longmont Genealogical Society have been revised. The Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) of these documents is designed to be printed, then read. To download this document you will need the free Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader installed on your computer.

Who's Who

A Gallery of Unknown Longmont Photos

We need your help to identify these mystery people & places!

About Us

• Join LGS

• 2012 Upcoming Programs 

• Past Program Reviews

• Research Requests

• Local Researchers for Hire

• LGS Tote Bags

• Meeting Photos - See photos of some of our members!

• In Memory Of

Info' About Longmont

• Useful Information & Addresses

• Helpful Area Links

• Records from Longmont Archives

Society's Book Collection donated to the Longmont FHC

Our collection of books on genealogy from "how-to's" to local history on Longmont and some CD collections have been donated to the Longmont Family History Center at 1721 Red Cloud Road. Check the online Index to the Book Collection and then visit the FHC to read the books or view the CDs.

Projects

• Longmont Ledger Index of birth, marriage and deaths published in the Ledger from January 15, 1897.

• Voter Registration Records 1898 - 1919

Cemeteries in Longmont

• Burlington Cemetery Records & Information

• Longmont Mountain View Cemetery Book information

• Ryssby Cemetery Book Information

• Foothills Garden of Memory (See our project on the left of page)

Funeral Homes - all have current obituaries online

• Ahlberg Funeral Chapel

• Carroll-Lewellen Funeral Home

• Howe Mortuary

FYI - The Longmont Daily Times-Call posts obituaries on their web site. for 10 days from the time they receive them. Click on Times-Call to go to their site, then look for the Obituary link on the left of the page.

Photo of a spectacular Longmont sunrise by Eldon Mickelson was taken at 7:08 a.m. on Tuesday Jan 3^rd 2012 from in front of his home west Longmont. "I was shuffling out to get the newspaper about half asleep, when I noticed that the ground, street, trees and everything had a pretty reddish, pink cast.  I looked up at the eastern sky to see the most beautiful sunrise I’ve seen in many, many years.  By then wide awake I raced back to the house to get my camera.  I only had time to get about 20 shots before the sun broke the eastern horizon and spoiled the orange colors which appear in the lower part of the picture.  I was lucky that this was one of the images I captured." And we're lucky to have him share it with us. With beautiful scenes like this - it is no wonder we love living in Longmont!