Sublette County, Wyoming Genealogy

United States Wyoming  Sublette County

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

Historical Facts

 * Parent County: created 15 February 1921 from Fremont and Lincoln
 * County seat: Pinedale
 * Neighboring Counties: Fremont | Lincoln | Sweetwater | Teton

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.

Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Cemeteries
Cemetery records often reveal birth, marriage, death, relationship, military, and religious information.

Migration
Early migration routes to and from for European and African American settlers included:


 * South Pass
 * Green River
 * Oregon Trail 1830s to 1890s from western Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon
 * Sublette-Greenwood_Cutoff 1844 from South Pass, Wyoming to Fort Hall, Idaho
 * California Trail 1846 to 1869 from western Missouri to northern California
 * Mormon Trail 1846 to 1869 from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah

Newspapers

 * Wyoming Newspaper Project

Courthouse
County Clerk has marriage records from 1923 and land records from 1910. Clerk District Court has divorce, probate, and court records from 1923.

Family History Centers

 * Big Piney Wyoming Family History Center
 * Pinedale Wyoming Family History Center

Libraries

 * Sublette County Library

Websites

 * Sublette 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.