On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:25:21 -0500, Crister Lindström wrote: > How to find out where and how someone was shot dead between 1901 and > 1906? I have very few clues. It was a very young boy Johan Edvard > Mauritz Lindstrom b in Sweden nov 17 1884. He left for Leadville where > his father worked and arrived in summer 1901. Last trace is a phot from > Greeley taken not later than feb 1902 when the business was closed. > Another Swede who returned home in 1906 said that he was shot dead. > There were also something about a trench. > > He probably changed his name to John, Ed or something more english. > > If he joined the army and was shot during service I asume his parents > would have been noticed. In fact he vanished and was not heard of any > more. > > Have anyone out there any ideas how to go on? Righ now I am scanning > swedish-spoken newspapers from Denver and Chicago. > > With greetings from Stockholm > > crister.lindstrom@bredband.net Colorado appears to have kept death records since 1900. A death certificate would show the exact date and place of death, and probably the manner of death. See: http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/hs/certs.asp