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Wyoming is a state
in the Western United States. The
majority of the state is dominated by the mountain ranges and rangelands of
the Rocky Mountain West, while
the easternmost section of the state includes part of a high elevation
prairie region known as the High Plains. While the tenth
largest U.S. state by size, Wyoming is the least populous, with a U.S. Census estimated
population of 522,830 in 2007, a 5.9% increase since 2000. The capital and the most
populous city of Wyoming is Cheyenne. Wyoming is bordered on the north by Montana,
on the east by South Dakota and Nebraska,
on the south by Colorado, on the southwest by Utah, and on
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GENEALOGICAL
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Rocky Mountain Online Archives
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HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL
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Colorado & Wyoming Department
(Source: Daughters of Union Veterans of the
Civil War, 1861-1865) ·
Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums
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The Society of Mayflower
Descendants in the State of Wyoming ·
Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists
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Western
States Chapter The Slovenian Genealogy Society International
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HISTORICAL PLACES |
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Historic
House Museums & Historic Structures; Historic
House Museums in Wyoming; Historical
Museum Guide for Wyoming; Mining
Museums and Miners' Memorials for Wyoming Select a County: Albany Big Horn Campbell Carbon Converse Crook Fremont Goshen Hot Springs Johnson Laramie Lincoln Natrona Niobrara Park Platte Sheridan Sublette Sweetwater Teton Uinta Washakie Weston |
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The
following are surnames of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or
died in this U.S. State. |
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To find out more about
each surname listed above click on the corresponding LINK. Additional information
regarding these surnames may also be found at: |
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Free Genealogy Surname Search Help from Google |
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Use this free genealogy site to help you
get the best genealogy searches from Google™
by using your family tree, for your research. It
will create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks" |
that will
likely improve your results.
The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google and
the Internet to find ancestry information about this or any other Surname. |
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Our
Ancestral Counties
The following named counties are associated with the history of our DIRECT ancestors. To select a
specific ancestral county, go to our Ancestral
Locations home page. Here you will find
additional links to our county pages where you can obtain information about
our family gen-sites, images of localities, and surnames of persons, in our
database, who have lived in the selected county. |
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Gazetteer
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The following Links will take you to
gazetteers that identify places within this U.S. State. These resources feature profiles of cities,
towns, neighborhoods and subdivisions.
In addition this site contains maps, data and directions for a wide
variety of physical, cultural and historic features. |
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Wyoming Cities -
profiles of 560 Wyoming cities,
towns & neighborhoods Wyoming Physical
Features such as lakes, islands &
steams Wyoming Cultural Features such as schools,
parks, hospitals & airports Wyoming Civil Features such as Native
Areas and Political Subdivisions |
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County Research
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Clicking on
a Link
(below) will take you to the County’s website. Here you will find additional links to more
information specific to that location.
The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects, at the national level, that
were created to collect and disseminate data that goes beyond county and
state lines. |
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Wikipedia is a multilingual,
Web-based,
free-content
encyclopedia
project based mostly on anonymous contributions. Clicking on a Link (below) will take you to the Wikipedia
article about the county. Here you will find additional links to guide the
user to related pages with additional information. |
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Albany
| Big Horn
| Campbell
| Carbon
| Converse
| Crook
| Fremont
| Goshen
| Hot Springs
| Johnson
| Laramie
| Lincoln
| Natrona
| Niobrara
| Park
| Platte
| Sheridan
| Sublette
| Sweetwater
| Teton
| Uinta
| Washakie
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Where in the World
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Resources
which enhance our knowledge of the places inhabited by our ancestors are
almost as important as their names.
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the right will take you to Maps, Gazetteers, and other helpful resources
that will assist you in discovering Ancestral Locations. |
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The Google search engine button
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with additional information to assist with your research about this
U. S. State. |
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GENERAL RESOURCES |
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Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia ·
Free
Genealogy Search Help For Google ·
Linkpendium
> Genealogy > USA ·
Ancestry.com
(Reference Materials & Finding Aids) |
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Cyndi's List - United States Index ·
IGI
Batch Numbers - British Isles & North America ·
Libweb
- Libraries on the Web ·
50states.com - States and Capitals |
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·Wyoming State Facts and
Information |
·Wyoming
(historical societies) ·Wyoming Resources
at RootsWeb · |
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The following Link will take you to our library of genealogy reference books that pertain to this U.S. State. Here you will find books about the history and records of this State, as well as its counties and other localities such as towns and churches. The collection also contains research works about State military units and personnel during America’s wars. In addition, there are resource texts about the ethnic and religious groups who settled in this State. |
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Snail
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Pony Express: Tom |
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