Resources

There are many websites with genealogy-related info for Arizona family history research. We hope you find these resource links helpful. If you have additional resources about Greenlee County ancestors, please share them with us.

• Wikipedia
• FamilySearch has many Greenlee County records available to download, including birth records, marriage records, history, court records, guardianship, land and property, naturalization and citizenship, death and probate records, obituaries, public records, voting registers, ... Here are just a few example collection links:
  Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964 Greenlee County
  Index to marriage records, 1914-1995
  Marriage affidavits, 1911-1950
  Marriage records, 1911-1919, vol 1-3
  Marriage records, 1919-1943, vol 3-6
  Marriage records, 1943-1955, vol 6-7
  Arizona, Greenlee County, Voting Records 1910-1926
  Greenlee County Minute Book, Fifth Judicial District
  Film #007944953 - 3 volumes/1584 images:
  Volume 1, Jan 2, 1911- Jun 25, 1913 (images 7-650))
  Volume 2, Jun 26, 1915 - Dec 28, 1922 (images 654-1143)
  Volume 3, Jan 29, 1923 - Mar 12, 1948 (images 1147-1581)
  Film #007787843 - 1584 images
  Volume 3 cont'd, Mar 12, 1948 - Aug 25, 1949
  Film #007787843 1152 images (images 7-170)
  Volume 4, Aug 29, 1949 - Aug 5, 1954 (images 174-773)
  Volume 1, Naturalization Petition and Record, 1911 - 1930 (images 777-1148 documents are not in date order)
  Arizona Deaths, 1870-1963
• Arizona Department of Health Services Search Birth & Death Records
• Internet Archive
• 1913 Who's Who in Arizona by Jo Connors
• 1919 The Story of Arizona by William H Robinson
• 1922 Greenlee County: the Wonderland of Arizona by Rush & Rush, contains many historical photos and descriptions of life in Greenlee County's past on every page, including Clifton, Morenci, Metcalf, and the Duncan Valley
• 1966 The Company Town in the American West by James B Allen
• 1970 Clifton-Morenci Strike: Labor Difficulty in Arizona, 1915-1916 by James R. Kluger
• Duncan High School Yearbook 1971 1972 1974
• 1972 Foundlings on the Frontier: Racial and Religious Conflict in Arizona Territory, 1904-1905 by Anthony Brophy
• 1975 Arizona, the Grand Canyon State: A History of Arizona by Florence Wachholtz
• Morenci High School Yearbook 1976 1977 1978 1979 1981 1983 1984
• 1992 Final environmental impact statement: Sanchez Copper Project
• 1995 Arizona: A History by Thomas E Sheridan
• 1999 The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon, In 1904 New York Catholic nuns brought 40 Irish orphans to remote Arizona mining camps in Clifton and Morenci, to be placed with Catholic families which were Mexican.
• 2002 Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest by Sandra Day O'Connor
• 2007 Corridors of Migration: the odyssey of Mexican laborers, 1600--1933 by Rodolfo Acuña
• 2008 The Untold Story of Joe Hernandez: the Voice of Santa Anita by Rudolph Alvarado
• 2009 The Prospector and His Protege by Jack Langton
• 2013 The Morenci Marines: a tale of small town America and the Vietnam War by Kyle Longley
• 2014 Mama's Santos: An Arizona Life by Carmen Duarte
• FindAGrave
• Library of Congress Chronicling America Collection
• National Register of Historic Places
• Bureau of Land Management - land patents
• Arizona Memory Project
• Greenlee County Government
• Arizona Historical Society
• Greenlee County Historical Society also on Facebook has a wonderful museum and gift shop at 315 Chase Creek, Clifton. The have a great deal of books for sale, chronicling the early days of Arizona. They have a well-stocked library and archives that is open to the public by appointment. Call for hours at 520 865 3115. The address is P.O. Box 787, Clifton, AZ 85533.
• Greenlee County Library System
• Clifton Public Library The following genealogical books are available at the library (list contributed by Jeannie Burns). In addition, inter-library loaning is available.
• Black Jack Christan-Outlaw
• Clifton Editor by Al Fenn
• From Charcoal to Banking
• Teresita
• Suffer Smoke by Elena Diaz Bjorkquist
• The Company Town: The American West
• AZ Statistical Review
• Forging the Copper Collar
• The Clifton-Morenci Strike - Holding the Line by Barbara Kingsolver
• Copper Crucible by Jonathan Rosenblum
• Foundlings on the Frontier by A. Blake Brophy
• Railroads of AZ Vol iii
• History of Mining in AZ by J. Michael Cantz
• Arizona Place Names by Byrd Granger
• Ranch Histories by Betty Accomazzo
• Forty years in AZ - Miami-Clifton-Morenci by Mabel Baker Morgan
• AZ place names by Will C. Barnes
• History of Morenci AZ by Roberta Watt
• A Century has passed - Duncan Centennial 1883-1983
• Everything you ever wanted to know about Clifton by Clifton Planning Committee
• Chase Creek by Clifton Planning Committee
• History of Clifton by James Patton (this book cannot leave the library)
• The Copper Era Newspaper in Clifton is printed by the Eastern Arizona Courier. They are said to have what's left of the records before the big flood of 1983. They are at http://www.eacourier.com and the address is: P.O. Drawer N, Safford, AZ 85548 Telephone: (520) 428-2560 - FAX: (520) 428-5396 E-mail: eacourier@aepnet.com
• Linkpendium
• MapsofUS.org - Arizona
• Ghosttowns Greenlee County
• GenealogyTrails - Greenlee County Arizona
• Free Genealogy Search Advice

Links to web sites that are not part of the USGenWeb Project are provided for your convenience and do not imply any endorsement of the websites or their contents by the USGenWeb Project.

---