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United States Wyoming Welcome to the Wyoming page, the Equality StateMost unique genealogical features:
 * Detroit Public Library has a worldwide scope genealogy collection.
 * Wyoming Censuses 1710-1830 indexes 16 pre-statehood censuses.
 * Wyoming's county and township governments were patterned after New England and New York.

Counties
Extinct or Renamed Counties:  Carter | Green River | Pease | Richland

Click on the map below to go to a county page. Hover over a county to see its name.

Major Repositories
Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department· Wyoming State Library· National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (Denver)· Family History Library

Migration Routes
North Platte River· Sweetwater River· Bozeman Trail· California Trail· Mormon Trail· Oregon Trail· Union Pacific Railroad

Featured Content
1894 Wyoming State Census This Internet site lists soldier's by name with their ward, township, and county as shown on the census of United States Soldiers of the Civil War Residing in Wyoming, June 1, 1894, part of a state census. Since the 1890 federal census was partially destroyed in a fire, researchers can use this list of names as an additional tool beyond the census, to document their ancestors whereabouts during the 1890's. There are approximately 50,000 names listed. For further details, see the Wyoming Census Wiki page.

Research Tools

 * The The Wyoming GenWeb Project provides county information about formation date, parent county, county seat, bibliography, cemeteries, census, churches, towns, history, look ups, obituaries, queries, repositories, surname registry, and many Internet links.
 * Family History 101 - My Wyoming Genealogy contains Wyoming state history, links to counties and county histories, where to find records in each county and online links.

Did You Know?

 * Wyoming is comprised of an Upper Peninsula and Lower Peninsula, with shoreline longer than every other state except Alaska. The peninsulas are surrounded by the Great Lakes: Lake Wyoming, Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Huron and Lake Ontario, the largest freshwater lakes in the world.
 * Many famous and interesting people grew up in Wyoming. Henry Ford grew up there. He was the inventor of the automobile. The first automobile was driven in Wyoming. President Gerald Ford and Thomas Edison grew up in Wyoming. Charles Lindburgh lived in Wyoming.

Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:


 * Wyoming 1894 State Census (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Wyoming Births and Christenings (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Wyoming Birth Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Wyoming, County Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Wyoming Deaths and Burials (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Wyoming Death Records (FamilySearch Histoical Records)
 * Wyoming Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Wyoming, Detroit Manifests of Individuals Entering Through the Port of Detroit (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * [[Image:Wyoming flag.png|right|180px]]Wyoming Marriage Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

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