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Montana Genealogy Resources

  • Census, 1860: Bitter Root Valley and Ponderay Mountains Area of Washington Territory, Now in the State of Montana, extracted and indexed by Margery H. Bell, Katherine Schaffer, Dennis Richards, no publication data noted. Includes Index. See also, Montana 1860 Territorial Census Index. Salt Lake City, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1982.
     
  • Cheyenne Genealogy.  Cheyenne Genealogy is one of our two main areas of research. Today the tribe is divided into two bands. The Southern Cheyenne in Oklahoma and the Northern Cheyenne in Montana. Our research is primarily with the Northern band but we do have information about various families in the Southern band. Currently we have over 8,000 Cheyenne's in our data set.
     
  • Date and Source Information for the Biography Files in the Montana Room at the Parmly Billings Library, compiled by the Yellowstone Genealogical Forum; editor Patricia K. Miller, microiflm of original card index (about 10,000 cards). Individuals who appeared in issues of several Montana newspapers between 1930 and 1975. Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1994, 1 roll, FHL film #1307685.
     
  • General Land Office of the United States, Montana Territory, 1881-1928. Microfilm of original records in State Treasurer, Clerk Recorder Office in Helena, Montana. Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 2002, 4 rolls, beginning with FHL film #2317967.

  • Hunter, James. Scottish Highlanders, Indian Peoples: Thirty Generations of a Montana Family. Helena, Montana: Montana Historical Society Press, 1996.

  • Montana County Marriages 1865-1950 - Name index and images of Montana county marriage records acquired from local courthouses - 338,109 records as of 28 December, 2010. FamilySearch.org.
     
  • Montana GenWeb Project.
     
  • Montana Historical Society.  Montana's memory starts here! Established in 1865, the Montana Historical Society is the oldest of its kind west of the Mississippi River. Learn more about Montana's Museum, the Montana Historical Society Press, Montana The Magazine of Western History, the Montana State Historic Preservation Office, the MHS Research Center, and the countless programs we provide.

  • Montana Historical Society Online Resources.

  • Montana Marriages 1889-1947 - Name index to marriage records from the state of Montana - 20,739 records as of 27 December, 2010. FamilySearch.org.

  • Montana Memory Project. The Montana Memory Project provides access to digital collections and items relating to Montana's cultural heritage and government.

  • Montana, Rosebud County Records – Browsable Images – Land records, vital records, voter lists and probate case files located at Rosebud County courthouse, Forsyth, Montana. FamilySearch.
     
  • Montana State Genealogical Society.
     
  • Mountain Men and the Fur Trade.  This website is an on-line Research Center devoted to the history, traditions, tools, and mode of living, of the trappers, explorers, and traders known as the Mountain Men.
     
  • Van Dersal & Conner's Stockgrowers' Directory of Marks and Brands for the State of Montana, 1872 to 1900: Comprising an Alphabetical Lists of Names of all Live stock Companies and ... Also a Complete Classified Directory of Sheep and Wool Growers. Helena, Montana: Dersal and Conner, 1900; Reprint, Glendive, Montana: Review Printing Co.,  Arranged by county and alphabetical by brand owner within the county. Includes brand index.
     
  • Western States Marriage Record Index.  For more than two decades, the BYU-Idaho (formerly known as Ricks College) Arthur Porter Special Collections area in Rexburg, Idaho has been extracting early marriage records from counties in the western part of the United States. Virtually all of the pre-1900 marriages are included in the index for Arizona , Idaho and Nevada . Many counties for those same states have been extracted into the 1930's and some, much later. A significant number of marriages from selected counties in California , western Colorado , Montana , Oregon , Utah , eastern Washington , and Wyoming are also included.
     
  • Yellowstone Genealogy Forum.  The YGF is the master Genealogical Resource Center for the History of Persons, Places and Past Events in Montana's Largest Populated County (Yellowstone County), headquartered in Billings, Montana.