March 10, 2021
If you are researching your ancestry from Wyoming, you will want to use GenealogyBank’s online WY newspaper archives: 31 titles to help you search your family history in the “Equality State,” providing coverage from 1867 to Today. There are millions of articles and records in our online Wyoming newspaper archives!
Dig deep into our online archives and search for articles about your ancestors from Wyoming in these newspapers. Our WY newspapers are divided into two collections, each with their own search page:
- Newspaper Archives (complete paper with all articles, including historical obituaries, with a number of very rare single-issue newspapers – many of them are the only known issues of the paper)
- Obituaries (including both historical and recent obituaries, if obits are specifically what you are searching for)
Search Wyoming Newspaper Archives (1867 – 1945)
Search Wyoming Obituaries (1997 – Today)
Here is the complete list of Wyoming newspapers in the online archives. Each newspaper title in this list is an active link that will take you directly to that paper’s search page, where you can begin searching for your ancestors by surnames, dates, keywords and more. The WY newspaper titles are listed alphabetically by city.
| City | Title | Years of Coverage | Issues Available | Collection |
| Casper | Star-Tribune | 11/26/2002 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Casper | Wyoming Energy Journal | 08/16/2012 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Casper | Casper Journal | 01/15/2016 – 04/23/2018 | – | Obituaries |
| Casper | WyoFile | 09/28/2010 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Cheyenne | Wyoming Tribune-Eagle | 10/01/1997 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Cheyenne | Cheyenne Argus | 11/14/1867 – 11/14/1867 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Cheyenne | Cheyenne Daily Argus | 04/02/1868 – 04/05/1868 | 2 | Newspaper Archives |
| Cheyenne | Cheyenne Daily Leader | 04/03/1868 – 05/09/1876 | 3 | Newspaper Archives |
| Cheyenne | Cheyenne Weekly Leader | 08/05/1876 – 08/05/1876 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Cheyenne | Commercial Record | 04/04/1868 – 04/11/1868 | 2 | Newspaper Archives |
| Cheyenne | Wyoming Commonwealth | 07/20/1890 – 11/14/1891 | 58 | Newspaper Archives |
| Cheyenne | Wyoming State Tribune | 01/01/1917 – 12/31/1921 | 1575 | Newspaper Archives |
| Cheyenne | Wyoming Business Report | 07/26/2012 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Cheyenne | Cheyenne Daily Sun | 04/18/1876 – 09/17/1876 | 3 | Newspaper Archives |
| Cheyenne | Cheyenne Post | 06/06/2019 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Cheyenne | Cheyenne Daily Leader | 09/17/1870 – 12/11/1881 | 5614 | Newspaper Archives |
| Cody | Yellowstone Gate | 03/05/2012 – 06/15/2017 | – | Obituaries |
| Evanston | Evanston Age | 10/03/1876 – 10/03/1876 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Heart Mountain | Heart Mountain Sentinel | 08/25/1942 – 11/02/1945 | 468 | Newspaper Archives |
| Laramie | Laramie Boomerang | 02/09/2007 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Laramie | Daily Boomerang | 08/29/1883 – 06/30/1890 | 150 | Newspaper Archives |
| Laramie | Frontier Index | 04/14/1868 – 04/14/1868 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Laramie | Laramie Daily Sentinel | 10/21/1876 – 10/21/1876 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Laramie | Laramie News | 02/01/1876 – 03/01/1876 | 2 | Newspaper Archives |
| Laramie | Laramie Weekly Sentinel | 05/15/1876 – 05/15/1876 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rawlins | Rawlins Daily Times | 04/01/2015 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Rawlins | Carbon County Journal | 09/04/1886 – 05/11/1889 | 3 | Newspaper Archives |
| Riverton | Riverton Ranger | 04/03/2011 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Rock Springs | Rocket-Miner | 04/14/2016 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Worland | Northern Wyoming News | 01/03/2006 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Worland | Northern Wyoming News: Web Edition Articles | 06/24/2015 – Current | – | Obituaries |
*Date Ranges may have selected coverage unavailable.
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