October 10 is Electronic Records Day, and Arapahoe County is now making it much easier to access old Colorado documents. After four years of tedious work, the County's Clerk and Recorder's Office just finished a huge job in digitizing millions of records and old documents -- some dating back to the county's founding in 1861.

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"It's important to us as records custodians, we want to preserve Arapahoe County's history," said Juan Guzman, the Deputy Director of Records for Arapahoe County. "We're very excited. Today is a major milestone for us."

Guzman said more than a century-and-a-half of local history sits in in the county's public records room. In it are rows and stacks of books containing documents dating back more than 160 years.

"In here, you have historical patents of land when

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