Welcome

Preserving our past . . . for our future

Welcome to the Cheyenne Genealogical &
Historical Society's Web Site

The Society's mission is to stimulate and encourage family history research through a variety of endeavors and to provide members and the genealogical public with a diversity of resources.

We hope you will enjoy your visit here and leave with some new knowledge about us and your genealogy search.

While you browse through the site you will find the Requests section helpful if you need help from our volunteers or officers.

Plan to attend our January 13 meeting!

The first meeting of the Cheyenne Genealogical and Historical Society is Tuesday, January 13 at 6:15 in the

Sunflower Room of the Laramie County Library.

A brief business meeting will precede the program given by CGHS's member Dale Wilen.

Here is what he said:

My presentation will give a brief history of homesteading in the Dakotas and Wyoming. There will be some folk narrative about the

homesteading experience in North Dakota of all of my grandparents – which would have been very similar

to that experienced here in Wyoming.

I am a North Dakota native. My grandparents all came to America in the late 1890s and early 1900s – and all homesteaded.

My wife and I ran my grandfather Wilen’s homestead ranch for ten years before “retiring” from ranching and leaving the

Dakotas. I graduated from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology with a degree in

Mechanical Engineering. I worked for the Boeing Company worldwide, “retiring” from there in 2010.

I developed a program for Cabela’s in Sidney, until I “retired” in 2015. I worked as a consultant worldwide, until I “retired” in 2022.

I also taught Project Management for a university for almost 20 years, and just “retired” from there this month. I might stay retired now…

We are still collecting money for the Leslie Vosler Memorial Fund to be given through the United Way to a classroom in the
Laramie County School District #1. We'll have a basket to collect your donation at the January meeting
or you may mail your donation to the CGHS mailbox. Make your check payable to the
Cheyenne Genealogical and Historical Society , P.O. Box 2539, Cheyenne, WY 82003-2539

The CGHS board meeting is tomorrow at 1:00 in the Windflower Room. All CGHS members are welcome to attend.

Please contact us at

cghswyoming@gmail.com if you have any questions.