Articles for Casper Genealogical Society

 Within our community we are blessed to have to "search centers". Monday through Thursday they are open 9am to 6pm. Friday and Saturday they are open 9am through 5 pm. Sunday - Closed I have found resources there that I had not seen before. That is the newspaper collection. After looking in several other newspaper sites that I could think of, I found an obituary in their library newspaper collection.  The librarians are "extremely knowledgeable, friendly, and helpful".The library has community outreach as well as frequent book sales. There is very large children's room downstairs. And of course we meet in the lower level for meetings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The other library is the Family Search Center, which is part of the Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints denomination. This library is the holding area for the books owned by the Natron County Genealogical Society. These books are labeled with a small yellow sticker and are through out the room. The church recen...

The National Archives in Saint Louis Missouri burned for July 12 through July 16 1973. This loss of historical records were the greatest loss of historical preservation the United States had ever occurrred. In the late 1980's II wanted to see if my grandfather's WW1 military records were somewhere in the National Archives. I had previously sent away for several Revolutionary War Soldier records but not my Grandfathers. I found the request form - paper - filled it out and sent it in. Months later I received a note from the Archives stating that they were sending my request to the Saint Louis Archives for that facility to research my grandfather''s records. Morre than 3 months later I received notice that Granndfather's records were intact, but slightly singed around the edges but should be able to be restored. There was no time period stated in the letter. Months went by..... Finally I received am 8X14 manilla envelope in the mail. It was nearly an inch thick. Inside...