Wyoming Church Records

Before 1900 the largest religious groups in Wyoming were the Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Congregational, and Methodist Episcopal churches.

Most records are kept with the local congregation, although some may have been transferred to other repositories, such as a church archives, a local genealogical or historical society, or a college library.

For help in locating church records see:

A Directory of Church and Religious Organizations in the State of Wyoming. Cheyenne, Wyoming: Historical Records Survey, 1939. (Family History Library book 978.7 K22h; film 908039 item 5.)

Guide to Vital Statistics Records in Wyoming: Church Archives. Cheyenne, Wyoming: Historical Records Survey, 1942. (Family History Library book 978.7 K23g.)

The Family History Library has very few original Wyoming church records. Many denominations have collected their records into central repositories. You can write to the following to learn where their records are located:

Congregational
Congregational Library 14 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02108 Telephone: 617-523-0470 Fax: 617-523-0470 Internet: http://www.14beacon.org/

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)
LDS Church Archives Historical Department 50 East North Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3400 Telephone: 801-240-2272 Fax: 801-240-1845 Internet: www.lds.org

Methodist Episcopal
United Methodist Archives Center Drew University Library P.O. Box 127 Madison, NJ 07940 Telephone: 201-408-3189 Fax: 201-408-3909 Internet: http://depts.drew.edu/lib/methodist/

Presbyterian
Presbyterian Historical Society United Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 425 Lombard Street Philadelphia, PA 19147 Internet: http://www.history.pcusa.org/

The Family History Library has microfilmed many of the records in the archives of the Presbyterian Historical Society. Others are described in:

Inventory of the Church Archives of Wyoming Presbyterian Churches: 1968 Arrangement with Indexes. No publisher: Historical Records Survey. No date. (Family History Library film 906119.).

Roman Catholic
Diocese of Cheyenne Box 426 Cheyenne, WY 82003 Phone: (307) 638-1530 Fax: (307) 637-7936 Internet: http://www.dioceseofcheyenne.org/

The diocese includes the counties of: Albany, Big Horn, Campbell, Carbon, Converse, Crook, Freemont, Goshen, Hot Springs, Johnson, Laramie, Lincoln, Natrona, Niobrara, Park, Platte, Sheridan, Sweetwater, Sublette, Teton, Uinta, Washakie and weston