Wyoming, United States Genealogy

United States Wyoming

Guide to Wyoming ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records Welcome to Wyoming, the Equality StateUnique Genealogical Features:
 * Earliest residents of what became Wyoming in 1890 are in the 1850 censuses of Nebraska, Utah, and Washington.
 * Many early Wyoming settlers obtained land by homesteading, or purchased land from the 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· Chisholm 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
Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:
 * Rotating Formation Wyoming County Boundary Maps and Atlases
 * David Rumsey Map Collection is a large online collection of rare, old, antique historical atlases, globes, maps, charts plus other cartographic treasures.
 * The Wyoming GenWeb Project includes counties, public libraries, queries, mailing list, WY timeline, census info, WY family group records, maps, tombstone images, and obituaries.
 * Wyoming Genealogy Network Community on Google+
 * Wyoming Biography Database 7,317 entry index to biographical profiles of individuals from Wyoming.
 * Wyoming Newspaper Project: This is a work in progress, there are over 721,138 full page newspaper images loaded.
 * Wyoming Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
 * Family Tree Encyclopedia - Terminology &amp; Meanings of Genealogical Terms
 * Printable Genealogy Forms used in Research
 * Wyoming Blacksheep Ancestors includes 1930 WY census of prisoners and insane, WY executions 1884-1965, and WY lynchings 1874-1918.
 * Wyoming Genealogy extensive directory of Wyoming genealogy records


 * Wyoming Marriages 1877-1920 (FamilySearch Historical Records) 14,070 entries.

Did You Know?
When the United States acquired Wyoming, most of the land that comprises the present state became part of the public domain. The federal government surveyed available land and began transferring much of it to private ownership through local land offices in a process called "land entry." The first land office was established at Cheyenne in 1870. Read more...

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