Weston County, Wyoming Genealogy

Guide to Weston County, Wyoming ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

United States Wyoming  Weston County

Historical Facts

 * Parent County: created 12 March 1890 from Crook
 * County seat: Newcastle
 * Neighboring Counties: Campbell | Converse | Crook | Custer County, South Dakota | Lawrence County, South Dakota | Niobrara | Pennington County, South Dakota

Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating Wyoming County boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Wyoming County Boundary Maps" (1848-1965) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Newspapers

 * Wyoming Newspaper Project

Repositories
See also a List of Wyoming Archives, Libraries, Publications, Historical &amp; Genealogical Societies

Courthouse
County Clerk has marriage records from 1890 and land records from 1886. Clerk District Court has divorce, probate, court records from 1890.

Family History Centers

 * Newcastle Wyoming Family History Center

Marriage

 * Western States Marriage Index over 1,117 marriages 20 May 1890 to 31 Jul 1914

Websites

 * Weston County, WY History, Records, Facts and Genealogy
 * Wyoming Genealogy Network Community on Google+
 * Wyoming Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.