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Telephone: 307-775-6256 <br>Fax: 307-775-6129<br>Internet: https://www.blm.gov/office/wyoming-state-office | Telephone: 307-775-6256 <br>Fax: 307-775-6129<br>Internet: https://www.blm.gov/office/wyoming-state-office | ||
The [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]] also has the original tract books, plats, homestead entry files, and cash entry files. The [https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library | The [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]] also has the original tract books, plats, homestead entry files, and cash entry files. The [https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library FamilySearch Library] has copies of the tract books on microfilm. The [[National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (Denver)]] also has some of the land office records. | ||
A guide to the land office records at the Denver branch and a history of the federal land system in Wyoming is Eileen Bolger's, Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming (Denver, Colorado: Federal Archives and Records Center, 1983; FS Library book {{FSC|345179|title-id|disp=978.7 R23b}} ). | A guide to the land office records at the Denver branch and a history of the federal land system in Wyoming is Eileen Bolger's, Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming (Denver, Colorado: Federal Archives and Records Center, 1983; FS Library book {{FSC|345179|title-id|disp=978.7 R23b}} ). | ||
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After land was transferred from the federal government by sale or grant to private ownership, it could be sold again, inherited, lost by foreclosure of a mortgage, or distributed through a divorce. These transactions are recorded by the [http://www.courts.state.wy.us/District district courts] in the form of deeds and mortgages. You can obtain copies of the records by contacting the appropriate clerk's office in each county. | After land was transferred from the federal government by sale or grant to private ownership, it could be sold again, inherited, lost by foreclosure of a mortgage, or distributed through a divorce. These transactions are recorded by the [http://www.courts.state.wy.us/District district courts] in the form of deeds and mortgages. You can obtain copies of the records by contacting the appropriate clerk's office in each county. | ||
Most of the county land records begin after 1869. The [https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localityrelated&columns=*%2C0%2C0&subject=377&subject_disp=Wyoming | Most of the county land records begin after 1869. The [https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localityrelated&columns=*%2C0%2C0&subject=377&subject_disp=Wyoming FamilySearch Library] has microfilm copies of important land records from about half of the counties in the state. Search under the county then Land and Property. From Laramie County, for example, the library has 75 microfilms of deeds, mortgages, indexes, railroad deeds, corporation records, bills of sale, and mining deeds. These records date from as early as 1867 to as late as 1961. | ||
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