June 21, 2023
If you are researching your ancestry from Wyoming, you will want to use GenealogyBank’s online WY newspaper archives: 47 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 |
| Casper | Casper daily tribune | 01/02/1917 – 01/31/1926 | 2460 | Newspaper Archives |
| 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 | 01/13/1870 – 01/18/1884 | 4315 | Newspaper Archives |
| Cheyenne | Cheyenne leader | 09/19/1867 – 01/10/1870 | 671 | Newspaper Archives |
| Cheyenne | Wyoming State Tribune | 11/11/1918 – 10/30/1919 | 2 | Newspaper Archives |
| Cheyenne | Wyoming tribune | 05/10/1888 – 11/02/1910 | 196 | Newspaper Archives |
| Cody | Yellowstone Gate | 03/05/2012 – 06/15/2017 | – | Obituaries |
| Cody | Cody enterprise | 05/04/1905 – 03/29/1906 | 23 | Newspaper Archives |
| Cody | Cody enterprise and the Park County herald | 07/04/1927 – 07/04/1927 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| County | WyoToday | 09/05/2017 – Current | – | 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 |
| Laramie | Laramie Boomerang: Web Edition Articles | 09/22/2008 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Laramie | Laramie Republican | 03/02/1896 – 11/30/1912 | 3569 | Newspaper Archives |
| Laramie | Laramie Republican | 03/17/1909 – 03/17/1909 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Laramie | Laramie Republican | 07/31/1909 – 03/18/1911 | 3 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rawlins | Rawlins Times | 04/01/2015 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Rawlins | Carbon County Journal | 09/04/1886 – 05/11/1889 | 3 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rawlins | Rawlins Republican | 08/07/1901 – 12/04/1930 | 1586 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rawlins | Rawlins Republican | 01/31/1890 – 12/31/1897 | 337 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rawlins | Rawlins semi-weekly Republican | 01/05/1898 – 08/03/1901 | 341 | Newspaper Archives |
| Riverton | Riverton Ranger | 04/03/2011 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Rock Springs | Rocket-Miner | 04/14/2016 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Saratoga | Saratoga sun | 07/14/1891 – 02/25/1926 | 554 | Newspaper Archives |
| Worland | Northern Wyoming News | 01/03/2006 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Worland | Northern Wyoming News: Web Edition Articles | 06/24/2015 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Yellowstone National Park | Yellowstone Insider | 05/26/2010 – Current | – | Obituaries |
*Date Ranges may have selected coverage unavailable.
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Note on the header image: the Wyoming State Capitol building, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Credit: Bradlyons; Wikimedia Commons.
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