Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Coös County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Newspapers
- Among the Clouds (Mount Washington, N.H.)1885-1917
- Berlin Independent (Berlin, N.H.)1888-1896
- Burt's Among the Clouds (Mount Washington, N.H.)1877-1884
- Lancaster Republican (Lancaster, N.H.)1881-1884
- Northern News (Lancaster, N.H.)1871-1???
- The Berlin Independent (Berlin, N.H.)1902-1908
- The Berlin Reporter (Berlin, N.H.)1897-Current
- The Colebrook Sentinel (Colebrook, N.H.)1913-1934
- The Colebrook Weekly News (Colebrook, N.H.)1876-1885
- The Coos County Democrat (Lancaster, N.H.)1884-Current
- The Enterprise (West Stewartstown, N.H.)1908-1909
- The Frontier Gazette (West Stewartstown, N.H.)1892-1903
- The Gorham Mountaineer (Gorham, N.H.)1899-1902
- The Groveton Advertiser (Groveton, N.H.)1909-1921
- The Groveton Enterprise (Groveton, N.H.)1892-1895
- The Home News (Lancaster, N.H.)1885-1???
- The Independent (Berlin, N.H.)1896-1902
- The Jefferson Times (Jefferson, N.H.)1907-1916
- The Jeffersonian (Jefferson, N.H.)1892-1896
- The Lancaster Gazette (Lancaster, N.H.)1878-1916
- The Mountaineer (Gorham, N.H.)1877-1899
- The Mountaineer (Gorham, N.H.)1902-1916
- The New Enterprise (West Stewartstown, N.H.)1907-1908
- The News and Sentinel (Colebrook, N.H.)1885-1913
- The News and Sentinel (Colebrook, N.H.)1934-Current
- The Northern Gazette (Lancaster, N.H.)1904-19??
- The Whitefield Times (Whitefield, N.H.)1904-1916
- White Mountain Aegis (Lancaster, N.H.)1838-1839
- White Mountain News (Whitefield, N.H.)1889-1896
- White Mountain Times (Whitefield, N.H.)1897-1904
See the repository's descriptions and search options
Repository access note: Selected newspaper titles cataloged by the Library of Congress with explicit county geography. Priority is given to titles beginning by 1950; up to five later titles are included where no earlier dated title is listed for that county. Dates describe publication history, not the issues available at a library. Multiple format records with the same title, place and dates are grouped. The catalog may describe paper, microfilm or online resources. Open ends and the word Current reflect the catalog description; confirm present availability and exact holdings with the libraries listed on the linked record.
Sources: the catalogs and repository descriptions linked on the entries above. Selected inventories do not establish complete coverage of every record type or online access to original documents. Read the repository access note for source dates and limitations.
Where to find the records
- Find Coös County's official website
We haven't checked this county's website yet, so this opens a web search. Look for an address ending in .gov, then find the town clerk, the county registry of deeds and the probate court.
- The town clerk
Births, marriages and deaths, kept by each town.
- The county registry of deeds
Deeds and other land records.
- The probate court
Wills and estates, by county (now the Circuit Court's probate division).
- The New Hampshire State Archives
In Concord: provincial, court and state records. Birth, marriage and death records are with the state's Division of Vital Records.
- New Hampshire Division of Archives and Records Managementfree
The state archives in Concord, with provincial, court and state government records.
- FamilySearch Catalogfree
Search by place for "New Hampshire, Coös" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.
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Boundaries and parent counties
Formed from: Grafton County
Check the parent county for earlier records: Grafton County
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1805, search the parent county. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries shows each boundary change.
Research tip
In New Hampshire, births, marriages and deaths were kept by towns. Copies of many town records before 1901 were gathered by the state and are indexed at FamilySearch.