Albany County opens 700,000 historic records for property research
Albany County has put about 700,000 images online, letting residents search deeds, mortgages and tract indexes from 1865 to October 1997 without a courthouse trip.
Albany County has opened about 700,000 historic images for property research, giving homeowners, buyers, title researchers and small businesses a faster way to trace deeds, mortgages and tract history from home. The archive reaches back to 1865, covering material that once meant a slow search through paper files at the county level.
The digital collection includes tract indexes, grantor and grantee records, aperture cards and miscellaneous records. Albany County routes recorded documents through two systems: ArcaSearch for records before October 1997, except for some mining documents and corner records, and iDocMarket for records from October 1997 to the present.
The county’s real estate office is a recording depository only and does not provide legal advice. Real-property documents must be original, properly notarized and include a legal description. A deed, mortgage, contract for deed, mining claim, plat map or survey can move through the system only if the paperwork is complete and the property is identified precisely. Wyoming law covers instruments that create, transfer, mortgage or assign real-estate interests.
When a search turns up an old lien, an outside interest or a missing link in ownership, title companies sort the record. Albany County’s research page directs users to that help. The county’s records are meant to be searched, not interpreted as legal advice. For residents filing new documents, the county also offers eRecording through Corporate Services Company and Simplifile, cutting mailing time, reducing check writing and improving tracking and fee processing.
The county was created in December 1868 by the Dakota Territorial legislature, and the Union Pacific Railroad reached the Laramie area the same year. By the 1869 census of the new Wyoming Territory, Albany County had 2,027 residents. The county clerk’s office is the designated public records contact, and it also records DD214 military discharge papers, which are not public records.
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