Discover Your Family History At Casper/Natrona County Library

Curious about your family history?

The Natrona County Library is offering help if you want to explore your family tree using the Wyoming State Library’s Genealogy Database Collection.

GoWYLD offers FREE genealogy resources that will help you discover some of those hard-to-find family details.

Ancestry Library Edition is an extensive genealogy resource available and it's accessible at the library.

Imagine having access to 8.9 billion records and more than 8,000 searchable databases worldwide.

The program will make searching a heck of a lot easier than the old days of flipping through card catalogs by hand.

With the help of the computer, you can quickly search keywords to find documents, including census records, voter lists, military records, court documents, immigration details, obituaries, and burial records.

You'll start with known relatives’ names, birthdates, and locations that you know of. From there the computer searches those keywords and information to find the hard to find.

You can even use the library to search from home.

The system includes ProQuest HeritageQuest Online and African American Heritage.

So grab a cup of coffee and sit in your favorite chair while searching on your laptop.

Did your ancestors make the news? If they did let's hope it was in a good way. Gale Primary Sources, ProQuest Newspapers, and Wyoming Newspapers. There are articles and photographs dating back to the nineteenth century.

Today's maps don't make much sense when we are talking about long ago. Sanborn features cities and towns from 1867 to 1970, so you can explore what your ancestor's communities looked like back then.

To get started just visit the Natrona County Library.