Wyoming Land and Property: Difference between revisions

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/DistrictCourtDirectory.aspx 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 Family History 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.