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 * This article is about a state of the United States. For other uses, see Wyoming (disambiguation).

United States Wyoming Welcome to the Wyoming page, the Equality StateMost unique genealogical features:
 * Earliest residents of what became WY are in censuses of NE, UT, or WA.
 * Many WY settlers obtained land from homesteading, or from railroads.
 * Many county records have been moved to the State Archives.

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

Click the map below to go to a county's page. Hover on it 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
Until 1811, when fur traders first opened a trail through the area, Wyoming was the domain of the American Indians. Between 1825 and 1840, about 200 mountain men bartered with the Indians at rendezvous in the region. In the 1840s and 1850s, many thousands of emigrants traveling the Oregon Trail to California, Utah, and other western states passed through the North Platte and Sweetwater valleys and South Pass in central Wyoming. In the 1860s, as Indian troubles increased in the north, many emigrants preferred the more southerly Overland Trail through Bridger Pass. Read more...

Research Tools

 * The Wyoming GenWeb Project has a wealth of information and is a part of the larger USGenWeb Project. The USGenWeb Project provides internet information on every county in every state in the United States.
 * Wyoming Biography Database is an index to books that contain biographical profiles of individuals from Wyoming. Maintained through the University of Wyoming, it contains over 7,317 entries.
 * Wyoming Newspaper Project: This is a work in progress, there are over 721,138 full page newspaper images loaded.
 * BYU Research Outline for Wyoming

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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