This page of our website provides links to Wyoming ancestry databases and historical narratives about Wyoming. These genealogical records may include, vital records (birth, marriage and divorce, death), ethnic records (Native American), court records (land, probate and wills, criminal and civil), church records (Bibles, baptisms, marriages, burials and histories), cemeteries, census records, military records directories and yearbooks.
Wyoming Cemeteries
Wyoming Census Records
Wyoming Directories
- 1875 Directory of Laramie City Wyoming Territory
General and Business Directory of Laramie City
Wyoming Genealogy Websites
Wyoming History
Wyoming State Publications
Over 40,000 digitized items dating back to 1869 are available via the State Publications Digital Collection.
Wyoming Places
Wyoming Places is an ongoing project to create an online resource about the place names of Wyoming. It began as an idea of the reference librarians at Wyoming State Library who received many questions about Wyoming places and the origin of Wyoming place names. The purpose of Wyoming Places is to give the user information about the origin of the name of a place, a brief history of that place and stories about it.
Wyoming Land Records
U.S., Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1820-1908
3,907 land management tract books containing official records of the land status and transactions involving surveyed public lands arranged by state and then by township and range. These books indicate who obtained the land and include a physical description of the tract and where the land is located. The type of transaction is also recorded such as cash entry, credit entry, homesteads, patents (deeds) granted by the Federal Government, and other conveyances of title such as Indian allotments, internal improvement grants (to states), military bounty land warrants, private land claims, railroad grants, school grants, and swamp grants. Additional items of information included in the tract books are as follows: number of acres, date of sale, purchase price, land office, entry number, final Certificate of Purchase number, and notes on relinquishments and conversions.
Arizona Land Patents online. Index.
Wyoming Military Records
- Military Records
- Wyoming Forts
List of colonial forts, trading posts, named camps, redoubts, reservations, general hospitals, national cemeteries, etc., established or erected in the United States from its earliest settlement to 1902. - Civil War Records
- Civil War Pensions Index Cards
Each card gives the soldier’s name, unit, the application number, the certificate number and the state from which the soldier served. In some cases, the soldier’s rank, terms of service, date of death and place of death are given. The index cards refer to pension applications of veterans who served in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1917. The majority of the records pertain to Civil War veterans, but they also include veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, Indian wars, and World War I.
- Civil War Pensions Index Cards
- World War I Records
- World War II Records
- World War II Casualties – Army – Army Air Corps
- Wyoming Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard World War II Casualty List
- Korean War Casualty List
- Vietnam War Casualty List
Wyoming Native American Records
- Wyoming Indian Tribes
- Wyoming Indian Agencies and Schools
- Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming Indians Wounded in Action
- Wisconsin and Wyoming Indian Honored War Dead
- Wyoming Land Patents – Arapahoe
- Current Federally Recognized Indian Tribes by State
- List of Federally Non-Recognized Tribes
- State Recognized Tribes
- Shoshone Indians of Uinta County, Wyoming
Wyoming Newspaper Records
Wyoming Digital Newspaper Collection
Get in touch with Wyoming’s past through historical and archived Wyoming Newspapers. Historians, genealogists, students, and scholars will find a wealth of reliable information here, all first-hand accounts of local news from days gone by. Our earliest archive dates back to 1849 but many of these papers survived for only a brief time and disappeared like the boom-and-bust ghost towns of Wyoming and the west.
Wyoming Vital Records
- Wyoming Vital Records
- Western States Historical Marriage Records Index
Over the past decade, the BYU-Idaho (formerly known as Ricks College) Family History Center has been extracting early marriage records from counties in the western part of the United States. Virtually all of the pre-1900 marriages are included in the index for Arizona, Idaho and Nevada. Many Idaho, Nevada and Utah counties have been extracted into the 1930’s and some, much later. A significant number of marriages from Wyoming, eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, western Colorado and selected counties in California are also included. For more details, see “List of Counties by State”. - Wyoming Death Index 1939-1952
This is the death index for the state of Wyoming. The data is broken into two parts, one for all deaths registered pre-1939 (this set is not complete for all years and all municipalities) and one for 1940-1952. - Wyoming Marriage Index 1941-1966
This is the marriage index for the state of Wyoming. The data is all indexed twice, once by the bride’s surname or maiden name, and once by the groom’s surname. Data for 1941-1952 is collected into large sets and broken down by the first letter of the surname, while data from 1953-1966 is available in smaller annual sets. - Wyoming Divorce Index 1941-1952
This is the divorce index for the state of Wyoming. The data is broken into two parts: divorces sorted by the husband’s surname, and divorces sorted by the wife’s surname or maiden name, if it was different than the husband’s surname.