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Sheridan County Public Libraries: Dynamic Gateways for Lifelong Learning      March 11, 2010

The Wyoming Room at the Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library

Your source for Sheridan Area history and genealogy

Monday - Thursday 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Closed Sundays

Western History Collection

          Emphasis on state and regional history.  Consult WYLDCAT for holdings

Genealogy Collection

          Emphasis on U. S. genealogy.  Consult WYLDCAT for holdings

Local Resources

  •     Vital Records
    • Records for Sheridan County cemeteries, including the Catholic Cemetery at Carneyville
    • Funeral records for Champion Funeral Home, May 30, 1910 - August 1, 1997, and for Ferries Funeral Home, June 2, 1910 - August 24, 1997
    • Index of obituaries from Sheridan newspapers, 1887 - current
    • Index of marriages recorded in the Sheridan County Clerk's Office, August 3, 1888 - December 31, 1975
    • Birth announcements from Sheridan newspapers, 1887 - 1978, 2002 - current
  •      Newspapers
    • Big Horn Sentinel, September 13, 1884 - October 19, 1889
    • Sheridan Post, January 4, 1889 - June 20, 1923
    • Sheridan Enterprise, December 24, 1887 - June 1923
    • Sheridan Post Enterprise, July 1, 1923 - November 9, 1930
    • Sheridan Journal, September 3, 1925 - November 4, 1930
    • Sheridan News, July 1, 1938 - December 31, 1938
    • Sheridan Press, November 9, 1930 - current
    • Country Journal, March 1975 - December 17, 1980
    • Tongue River Courier, December 12, 1993 - March 31, 1995
    • Tongue River News, April 6, 1994 - December 28, 1995
    • The Ocksheperida (Sheridan High School), 1908 - current
  •     Land ownership
    • Index to Sheridan County homesteaders with accompanying maps (homesteads granted by state of Wyoming not mapped)
    • 1914 -- Map.  "Sheridan County, Wyoming; showing extent of public surveys, military and forest reservations, railroads, ownership of taxable lands and other details"
    • 1915 -- Map.  "Sheridan County: state lands under filing, deeded lands, roads, railroads"
    • 1938 -- Map.  "Map of Sheridan County, Wyoming: county and state roads, rivers and streams, railroads, and land ownership," compiled by N. B. Bennett.  Accompanied by a study done by DeAndrea Folster, Settling of Sheridan County, of the names of landowners found on map.


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