Obituary Search Wyoming

Searching for obituaries in the state of Wyoming


Most families like to put some kind of obituary or a shorter, simpler piece called a death notice in the local press, not only to let people know about the funeral and whether to send flowers or to make a donation to a local charity, but also to remember a much-loved relative or friend. Although there is no official database of these obituaries, meaning that you can search through every death notice in the state of Wyoming or even in the entire country, they do appear in almost every newspaper across Wyoming and the US, and as most newspapers also have their own websites these days, searching death notices and the obituaries pages for mentions of people you might have known is actually a fairly simple task.

There are some national websites out there that claim to offer a comprehensive database of printed obituaries, but it is worth checking which publications are included before you sign up and pay any fees they require. After all, if you know that the person you are looking for only ever lived in one small town in Wyoming their whole life, you probably don't need to pay to carry out a search of every obituary page in the US to find out if they have died or if someone placed a death notice for them! The chances are that it will be quicker and cheaper for you to carry out the search yourself at the local library. These national sites can come in useful if you do not know where in the state of Wyoming someone might have died, or even if they passed away within the borders of Wyoming at all.

You are relying on the deceased person having friends and family who care enough to pay for an obituary to be printed, but many papers have started to offer this service for free, recognizing the important part these obituaries play in the lives of citizens in Wyoming. Searching for a specific obituary can be a bit different from just searching more randomly to see if anyone you know has died recently in a certain region of Wyoming. If you are just interested in the names and obituaries of those who have died recently, then you can look at the family announcements pages of recent editions of the local press either online or in local libraries. Using obituaries to actually confirm if someone has died can be a bit hit and miss, because of the reliance you have on someone placing the notice, but you can try searching online for the person's name. Libraries in Wyoming as well as newspaper offices themselves will often keep copies of the paper on file, allowing you to search through their indexed copies for the original notice.

Those people who are searching their family history can often find death notices useful for the extra information it can provide about their ancestors who lived in the state of Wyoming. Perhaps they have already discovered the dry and boring basic facts about their great-grandfather's death thanks to the County Clerk or Registrar Recorder's office in Wyoming. Now they can look in old copies of the local paper at the time to see if his family placed an obituary; perhaps detailing the names of his relatives, maybe his profession, sometimes even more information about his death. All these are the kind of facts that add colour to genealogy research and cannot be found on sterile government documents.