Wyoming, Lincoln County Probate Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What Is in This Collection?
This collection consists of digital images of probate records filmed at the Lincoln County Courthouse in Kemmerer, Wyoming for the years 1913 to 2014. In most counties in Wyoming, probate records have been kept by the county judge. They include wills, fee books, claim registers, legacy records, inheritance records, probate ticklers, and dockets. The records are available at the county courthouse.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
Probate records may contain the following information:
 * Name of testator or deceased
 * Event year
 * Event place
 * Names of heirs such as spouse, children, and other relatives or friends
 * Relationships
 * Places of residence

How Do I Search This Collection?
Before searching this collection, it is helpful to know:
 * Name of the person
 * The location or date of the event

How Do I Analyze the Results?
Compare each result from your search with what you know to determine if there is a match. This may require viewing multiple records or images. Keep track of your research in a research log.

What Do I Do Next?
If these are indexes, the original records may contain additional information than was not indexed, or the information might have been indexed incorrectly. You may want to search for the original record at the Lincoln County Court Records.

I Found Who I was Looking for, What Now?

 * In case you need to find this record again later, copy the citation below in the Citing This Collection section. It's always a good idea to keep your citation on a Research Log. This is an important tool to help keep track of what you have and have not found.  Family search wiki has a [[Media:Research_Log.pdf|Research Log]] that you can download and use
 * Use a Probate record to identify adoptions, guardians, heirs and relatives
 * Use a probate record to approximate a death date, then find a Death Records
 * For earlier years, use the probate record or will to substitute for civil birth and death records
 * Use the record to learn the place of origin then search there for their church or Wyoming Vital Records such as birth, baptism, marriage, and death records
 * Use the information found in the record to find additional family members in the United States Census, 1870 - FamilySearch Historical Records or the United States Census, 1900 - FamilySearch Historical Records or the United States Census, 1920 - FamilySearch Historical Records. Search the state censuses as well
 * Use the information found in the record to find United States, Internal Revenue Assessment Lists - FamilySearch Historical Records
 * Use the information found in the record to find United States, Bureau of Land Management Tract Books - FamilySearch Historical Records
 * Search for death or burial information in BillionGraves Index or at Find A Grave
 * If applicable, search for immigration and naturalization records as well
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family

I Can’t Find the Person I’m Looking For, What Now?

 * If your ancestor does not have a common name, collect entries for every person who has the same surname. This list can help you find possible relatives
 * If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching a nearby locality
 * Try different spellings of your ancestor’s name
 * Remember that sometimes individuals went by nicknames or alternated between using first and middle names. Try searching for these names as well
 * Check the infobox above for additional FamilySearch websites and related websites that may assist you in finding similar records

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The following articles will help you research your family in the state of Wyoming.
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 * prepared by the Wyoming Historical Records Survey, Community Service Programs, Work Projects Administration, Inventory of the county archives of Wyoming, no. 12, Lincoln County (Kemmerer) Cheyenne, Wyoming : Historical Records Survey (Wyoming), 1941

Citing This Collection
A citation is a note that shows where you found information. Citations help you keep track of places you have searched and sources you have found. Using citations allow others to find the same records. Below are the proper citations to use for this whole collection as well as for individual images.