This is a list of free, online Montana Genealogy Records at FamilySearch.

Included are Montana birth records, marriage records, death records, Indian records, census records, pension records, military records and more. We’ll continue to add more Montana collections available online at FamilySearch. If you’re looking for onsite collections, visit their website & catalog.

Some of these records have a searchable name index, others have browsable images, a few have both an index and images, and some link to individuals in the FamilySearch family tree.

This list prioritizes indexed collections, but if you can’t find your Montana ancestor there, the list includes online image collections which take longer to search, but have a treasure trove of information.

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Montana Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

Montana Birth Indexes & Birth Records

• US – United States Births and Christenings, 1867-1931, index
• US – United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images
• Montana – Montana, County Births and Deaths, 1840-2004, index & images
• Montana – Vital statistics, 1914-1939
• Montana – Guide to public vital statistics in Montana
• Beaverhead County – Montana, Beaverhead County Records, 1862-2009, index & images (land, birth, death, voters)
• Big Horn County – Montana, Big Horn County Records, 1884-2011, index & images (deeds, homesteads, probate, naturalization, birth, death, marriage)
• Cascade County – Montana, Cascade County Records, 1880-2009, index & images (birth, marriage, death, probate, voters, naturalization, court, land)
• Chouteau County – Montana, Chouteau County Records,1876-2011, index & images (birth, marriage, death, school census, wills & probate, naturalization, land, court)
• Crow – Indian census rolls, Crow, 1891-1940
• Flathead – Indian census rolls, Flathead, 1886-1939
• Flathead County – Montana, Flathead County Records, 1871-2007, index & images (court, divorce, land, probate, birth, death)
• Fort Belknap – Indian census rolls, Fort Belknap, 1885-1939
• Fort Peck – Indian census rolls, Fort Peck, 1885-1939
• Granite County – Montana, Granite County Records, 1865-2009, index & images (birth, marriage, death, naturalization, land, court)
• Judith Basin County – Montana, Judith Basin County Records, 1887-2012, index & images (naturalization, probate, wills, birth, marriage, death)
• Lake County – Montana, Lake County Records, 1857-2010, index & images (court, divorce, land, naturalization, farm names, probate, school census records, birth, marriage, death)
• Meagher County – Montana, Meagher County Records, 1866-2012, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, probate, wills, birth, death)
• Northern Cheyenne Agency – Heirship records, 1907-1950
• Pondera County – Montana, Pondera County Records, 1910-2012, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death)
• Rocky Boy – Indian census rolls, Rocky Boy, 1919-1939
• Rosebud County – Montana, Rosebud County Records, 1878-2011, index & images (land, wills & probate, birth, death, marriage, voters)
• Sanders County – Montana, Sanders County Records, 1866-2010, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death, voters)
• Sweet Grass County – Montana, Sweet Grass County Records, 1887-2011, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, death)
• Teton County – Montana, Teton County Records, 1881-2012, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death)

Montana Marriage Indexes & Marriage Records

• US – United States, GenealogyBank Historic Newspaper Marriages, 1815-2011, index links to images
• US – United States Western States Marriage Index, index
• Montana – Montana Marriages, 1889-1947, index
• Montana – Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950, index & images
• Montana – Vital statistics, 1914-1939
• Montana – Guide to public vital statistics in Montana
• Big Horn County – Montana, Big Horn County Records, 1884-2011, index & images (deeds, homesteads, probate, naturalization, birth, death, marriage)
• Cascade County – Montana, Cascade County Records, 1880-2009, index & images (birth, marriage, death, probate, voters, naturalization, court, land)
• Chouteau County – Montana, Chouteau County Records,1876-2011, index & images (birth, marriage, death, school census, wills & probate, naturalization, land, court)
• Crow – Indian census rolls, Crow, 1891-1940
• Flathead – Indian census rolls, Flathead, 1886-1939
• Fort Belknap – Indian census rolls, Fort Belknap, 1885-1939
• Fort Peck – Indian census rolls, Fort Peck, 1885-1939
• Granite County – Montana, Granite County Records, 1865-2009, index & images (birth, marriage, death, naturalization, land, court)
• Judith Basin County – Montana, Judith Basin County Records, 1887-2012, index & images (naturalization, probate, wills, birth, marriage, death)
• Lake County – Montana, Lake County Records, 1857-2010, index & images (court, divorce, land, naturalization, farm names, probate, school census records, birth, marriage, death)
• Northern Cheyenne Agency – Heirship records, 1907-1950
• Pondera County – Montana, Pondera County Records, 1910-2012, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death)
• Rocky Boy – Indian census rolls, Rocky Boy, 1919-1939
• Rosebud County – Montana, Rosebud County Records, 1878-2011, index & images (land, wills & probate, birth, death, marriage, voters)
• Sanders County – Montana, Sanders County Records, 1866-2010, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death, voters)
• Teton County – Montana, Teton County Records, 1881-2012, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death)
• Toole County – Montana, Toole County Records, 1913-1960, index & images (burial, court, naturalization, wills & probate, marriage)
• Yellowstone County – Montana, Yellowstone County Records, 1881-2011, index & images (land, marriage, wills & probate, court)

Montana Death Indexes & Death Records

• US – United States Deaths and Burials, 1867-1961, index
• US – United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968, index & images
• US – United States Social Security Death Index, index
• US – United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991, index
• Montana – Montana Death Index, 1860-2007, index
• Montana – Guide to public vital statistics in Montana
• Montana – Vital statistics, 1914-1939
• Beaverhead County – Montana, Beaverhead County Records, 1862-2009, index & images (land, birth, death, voters)
• Big Horn County – Montana, Big Horn County Records, 1884-2011, index & images (deeds, homesteads, probate, naturalization, birth, death, marriage)
• Cascade County – Montana, Cascade County Records, 1880-2009, index & images (birth, marriage, death, probate, voters, naturalization, court, land)
• Chouteau County – Montana, Chouteau County Records,1876-2011, index & images (birth, marriage, death, school census, wills & probate, naturalization, land, court)
• Crow – Indian census rolls, Crow, 1891-1940
• Flathead – Indian census rolls, Flathead, 1886-1939
• Flathead County – Montana, Flathead County Records, 1871-2007, index & images (court, divorce, land, probate, birth, death)
• Fort Belknap – Indian census rolls, Fort Belknap, 1885-1939
• Fort Peck – Indian census rolls, Fort Peck, 1885-1939
• Granite County – Montana, Granite County Records, 1865-2009, index & images (birth, marriage, death, naturalization, land, court)
• Judith Basin County – Montana, Judith Basin County Records, 1887-2012, index & images (naturalization, probate, wills, birth, marriage, death)
• Lake County – Montana, Lake County Records, 1857-2010, index & images (court, divorce, land, naturalization, farm names, probate, school census records, birth, marriage, death)
• Meagher County – Montana, Meagher County Records, 1866-2012, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, probate, wills, birth, death)
• Northern Cheyenne Agency – Heirship records, 1907-1950
• Pondera County – Montana, Pondera County Records, 1910-2012, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death)
• Rocky Boy – Indian census rolls, Rocky Boy, 1919-1939
• Rosebud County – Montana, Rosebud County Records, 1878-2011, index & images (land, wills & probate, birth, death, marriage, voters)
• Sanders County – Montana, Sanders County Records, 1866-2010, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death, voters)
• Sweet Grass County – Montana, Sweet Grass County Records, 1887-2011, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, death)
• Teton County – Montana, Teton County Records, 1881-2012, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death)

Cemeteries

• US – United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images
• US – BillionGraves Index, index links to images
• US – Find A Grave Index, index links to images
• US – United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
• US – United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
• US – United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969, index links to images
• Deer Lodge County – Montana, Deer Lodge County, Anaconda, Cemetery Records, 1878-2005, index links to images
• Meagher County – Montana, Meagher County Records, 1866-2012, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, probate, wills, birth, death)
• Sanders County – Montana, Sanders County Records, 1866-2010, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death, voters)

Obituaries

• US – Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014, index links to images
• US – United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011, index links to images
• US – United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014, index & images
• US – United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
• Montana – Montana obituaries, 1996-2014
• Nevada – Pahrump, Nevada Genealogical Society obits 1970-2009
• Book of Mary Small’s obituaries, funeral programs, etc
• Mineral County – Montana, Mineral County Obituaries, 1870-2010, index & images
• Kalispell – [Obituaries from the Daily Interlake, Kalispell, Montana, 1999 – 2004, 2011 – 2015]
• [Obituary clippings from The Billings Gazette, Lovell Chronicle, The Yellowstone County News, and The Billings Outpost, covering the years 2002, 2003, 2004]

Wills & Probate

• Big Horn County – Montana, Big Horn County Records, 1884-2011, index & images (deeds, homesteads, probate, naturalization, birth, death, marriage)
• Cascade County – Montana, Cascade County Records, 1880-2009, index & images (birth, marriage, death, probate, voters, naturalization, court, land)
• Chouteau County – Montana, Chouteau County Records,1876-2011, index & images (birth, marriage, death, school census, wills & probate, naturalization, land, court)
• Flathead County – Montana, Flathead County Records, 1871-2007, index & images (court, divorce, land, probate, birth, death)
• Judith Basin County – Montana, Judith Basin County Records, 1887-2012, index & images (naturalization, probate, wills, birth, marriage, death)
• Lake County – Montana, Lake County Records, 1857-2010, index & images (court, divorce, land, naturalization, farm names, probate, school census records, birth, marriage, death)
• Meagher County – Montana, Meagher County Records, 1866-2012, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, probate, wills, birth, death)
• Pondera County – Montana, Pondera County Records, 1910-2012, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death)
• Rosebud County – Montana, Rosebud County Records, 1878-2011, index & images (land, wills & probate, birth, death, marriage, voters)
• Sanders County – Montana, Sanders County Records, 1866-2010, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death, voters)
• Sweet Grass County – Montana, Sweet Grass County Records, 1887-2011, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, death)
• Teton County – Montana, Teton County Records, 1881-2012, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death)
• Toole County – Montana, Toole County Records, 1913-1960, index & images (burial, court, naturalization, wills & probate, marriage)
• Yellowstone County – Montana, Yellowstone County Records, 1881-2011, index & images (land, marriage, wills & probate, court)

Montana Residence Records

Census

• 1848-1970 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
• 1850 – United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850, index & images
• 1850 – United States Census, 1850, index & images
• 1860 – 1860 census; Bitter Root Valley and Ponderay Mountains area of Washington Territory, now in the state of Montana
• 1870 – Montana, 1870 federal census
• 1870 – United States Census, 1870, index & images
• 1870-1900 – 1870-1900 Benton area census: 1890 Montana census schedules of Union veterans and widows of Civil War: 1862-1880 records of French/Canadian inhabitants of Choteua County
• 1870-1900 – 1870-1900 Benton area census: 1890 Montana census schedules of Union veterans and widows of Civil War: 1862-1880 records of French/Canadian inhabitants of Choteua County
• 1880 – Montana, 1880 federal census
• 1880 – United States Census, 1880, index & images
• 1885-1939 – Fort Belknap – Indian census rolls, Fort Belknap, 1885-1939
• 1885-1939 – Fort Peck – Indian census rolls, Fort Peck, 1885-1939
• 1885-1939 – Indian census rolls, Fort Belknap, 1885-1939
• 1885-1939 – Indian census rolls, Fort Peck, 1885-1939
• 1885-1940 – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
• 1886-1939 – Flathead – Indian census rolls, Flathead, 1886-1939
• 1886-1939 – Indian census rolls, Flathead, 1886-1939
• 1890 – United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images
• 1890-1939 – Indian census rolls, Blackfeet Agency, 1890-1939
• 1891-1940 – Crow – Indian census rolls, Crow, 1891-1940
• 1891-1940 – Indian census rolls, Crow, 1891-1940
• 1892 – Indian census rolls, Great Sioux Reservation, 1892
• 1900 – Montana, 1900 federal census
• 1900 – Montana, 1900 federal census
• 1900 – United States Census, 1900, index & images
• 1900-1940 – United States Enumeration District Maps for the Twelfth through the Sixteenth US Censuses, 1900-1940
• 1907-1950 – Northern Cheyenne Agency – Heirship records, 1907-1950
• 1908-1910 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
• 1909-1948 – Census records, 1909-1948
• 1910 – Indian census rolls, Fort Shaw School, 1910
• 1910 – Montana, 1910 federal census
• 1910 – United States Census, 1910, index & images
• 1919-1939 – Indian census rolls, Rocky Boy, 1919-1939
• 1919-1939 – Rocky Boy – Indian census rolls, Rocky Boy, 1919-1939
• 1920 – Montana, 1920 federal census
• 1920 – United States Census, 1920, index & images
• 1930 – Montana, 1930 federal census
• 1930 – United States Census, 1930, index & images
• 1940 – Montana, 1940 population census
• 1940 – United States Census, 1940, index & images

Directories

• McKenney’s Pacific Coast directory, 1883-1884
• Pacific Coast business directory, 1867
• The Pacific Coast directory : giving name, business, and address of business and professional men of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, and New Mexico together with sketches of the different towns, giving location, population, etc.

Emigration/Immigration/Migration

• US – United States Index to Alien Case Files, 1940-2003, index links to images
• US – United States Border Crossings from Mexico to United States, 1903-1957, index
• US – United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index
• Montana – Montana Manifests of Immigrant Arrivals and Departures, 1923-1956, index & images
• Montana – Montana manifests of immigrant arrivals and departures, 1923-1956
• Montana – Manifests of alien arrivals at Havre, Loring, Opheim, Raymond, Turner, Westby, and White Tail, Montana, 1924-1956

Land & Property

• Montana – General land office of United States, Montana Territory, 1881-1928
• Montana – Montana Territory, miscellaneous records and index, 1870-1957
• Beaverhead County – Montana, Beaverhead County Records, 1862-2009, index & images (land, birth, death, voters)
• Big Horn County – Montana, Big Horn County Records, 1884-2011, index & images (deeds, homesteads, probate, naturalization, birth, death, marriage)
• Broadwater County – Broadwater County, Montana, deeds index and deed records, 1866-1953
• Cascade County – Montana, Cascade County Records, 1880-2009, index & images (birth, marriage, death, probate, voters, naturalization, court, land)
• Chouteau County – Montana, Chouteau County Records,1876-2011, index & images (birth, marriage, death, school census, wills & probate, naturalization, land, court)
• Deer Lodge County – Montana, Deer Lodge County, Anaconda, Cemetery Records, 1878-2005, index links to images
• Flathead County – Montana, Flathead County Records, 1871-2007, index & images (court, divorce, land, probate, birth, death)
• Granite County – Montana, Granite County Records, 1865-2009, index & images (birth, marriage, death, naturalization, land, court)
• Judith Basin County – Montana, Judith Basin County Records, 1887-2012, index & images (naturalization, probate, wills, birth, marriage, death)
• Lake County – Montana, Lake County Records, 1857-2010, index & images (court, divorce, land, naturalization, farm names, probate, school census records, birth, marriage, death)
• Meagher County – Montana, Meagher County Records, 1866-2012, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, probate, wills, birth, death)
• Pondera County – Montana, Pondera County Records, 1910-2012, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death)
• Rosebud County – Montana, Rosebud County Records, 1878-2011, index & images (land, wills & probate, birth, death, marriage, voters)
• Sanders County – Montana, Sanders County Records, 1866-2010, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death, voters)
• Sweet Grass County – Montana, Sweet Grass County Records, 1887-2011, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, death)
• Teton County – Montana, Teton County Records, 1881-2012, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death)
• Toole County – Montana, Toole County Records, 1913-1960, index & images (burial, court, naturalization, wills & probate, marriage)
• Yellowstone County – Montana, Yellowstone County Records, 1881-2011, index & images (land, marriage, wills & probate, court)

Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers

• Origin of some Montana Place names
• The Oregonian’s handbook of the Pacific Northwest

Naturalization & Citizenship

• US – Indexes to naturalization records of the Montana territorial and federal courts, 1868-1929
• Montana – Montana Naturalization Records, 1868-1999, index & images
• Montana – Montana, County Naturalizations, 1856-1979, index & images
• Montana – Declaration of intent, 1891-1929; petition for naturalization, 1891- 1929; citizenship records, 1894-1906; certificates, 1907-1927
• Montana – Montana naturalization records, 1868-1999
• Montana – Montana, County naturalizations, 1856-1979
• Big Horn County – Montana, Big Horn County Records, 1884-2011, index & images (deeds, homesteads, probate, naturalization, birth, death, marriage)
• Cascade County – Montana, Cascade County Records, 1880-2009, index & images (birth, marriage, death, probate, voters, naturalization, court, land)
• Cascade County – Montana, Cascade County, naturalization records, 1888-1999
• Chouteau County – Montana, Chouteau County Records,1876-2011, index & images (birth, marriage, death, school census, wills & probate, naturalization, land, court)
• Granite County – Montana, Granite County Records, 1865-2009, index & images (birth, marriage, death, naturalization, land, court)
• Judith Basin County – Montana, Judith Basin County Records, 1887-2012, index & images (naturalization, probate, wills, birth, marriage, death)
• Lake County – Montana, Lake County Records, 1857-2010, index & images (court, divorce, land, naturalization, farm names, probate, school census records, birth, marriage, death)
• Meagher County – Montana, Meagher County Records, 1866-2012, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, probate, wills, birth, death)
• Pondera County – Montana, Pondera County Records, 1910-2012, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death)
• Sanders County – Montana, Sanders County Records, 1866-2010, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death, voters)
• Sweet Grass County – Montana, Sweet Grass County Records, 1887-2011, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, death)
• Teton County – Montana, Teton County Records, 1881-2012, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death)
• Toole County – Montana, Toole County Records, 1913-1960, index & images (burial, court, naturalization, wills & probate, marriage)

Passports

US – United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, index & images

Pensions

• United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images

Taxation

• Internal revenue assessments for the Territory of Montana, 1864-1872

Voters

• Montana – Poll lists for the election of October 24, 1864 (to establish Montana as a Territory)
• Beaverhead County – Montana, Beaverhead County Records, 1862-2009, index & images (land, birth, death, voters)
• Rosebud County – Montana, Rosebud County Records, 1878-2011, index & images (land, wills & probate, birth, death, marriage, voters)
• Sanders County – Montana, Sanders County Records, 1866-2010, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death, voters)

Montana Daily Life Records

Alumni, Schools, & Yearbooks

• Chouteau County – Montana, Chouteau County Records,1876-2011, index & images (birth, marriage, death, school census, wills & probate, naturalization, land, court)
• Fort Shaw School – Indian census rolls, Fort Shaw School, 1910
• Lake County – Montana, Lake County Records, 1857-2010, index & images (court, divorce, land, naturalization, farm names, probate, school census records, birth, marriage, death)
• Montana State University, Montana State College – Bibliography of graduate theses, University of Montana, Montana State University, Montana State College, Montana School of Mines

Bible Records

• Family Bibles

Biography

• A history of Montana
• A history of Montana
• History of Montana, 1739-1885 : Indians and Indian wars … personal reminiscences of great historic value … and portraints of pioneers ..
• History of the great northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life
• An illustrated history of the state of Montana : containing a history of the state of Montana from the earliest period of its discovery to the present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future; illustrations and full-page portraits of some of its eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers and prominent citizens of today.
• Little Big Horn biographies
• Montana, its story and biography : a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood
• Montana, its story and biography : a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood
• Montana; special limited edition
• A newspaper reference work: men of affairs and representative institutions of the state of Montana
• Progressive men of the state of Montana
• Progressive men of the state of Montana
• Society of Montana Pioneers; constitution, members and officers, with portraits and maps
• Society of Montana Pioneers; constitution, members and officers, with portraits and maps
• Date and source information for the biography files in the Montana Room at the Parmly Billings Library
• Every-name index to Stout’s Montana : its story and biography

Church

• Church records, 1877-1907
• Episcopal register, Protestant Episcopal Church : 1866-1886
• Journal of Reverend William Hiram Leflar Marshall, 1910-1956
• Montana marriages, 1889-1947
• Inventory of the vital statistics records of church and religious organizations in Montana, 1942
• A directory of churches and religious organizations in Montana, 1941
• Bicentennial tapestry of the Yellowstone Conference
• History of the Church of the Brethren on the northern plains
• Indian and white in the Northwest : a history of Catholicity in Montana, 1831-1891
• Jesuits in Montana, 1840-1960
• Missionary to the Mountain West : reminiscences of Episcopal Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle, 1866-1886
• The pioneer work of the Presbyterian Church in Montana
• The pioneer work of the Presbyterian Church in Montana
• Presbyterianism in Montana : its first hundred years

Court Records

• Beaverhead County – Montana, Beaverhead County Records, 1862-2009, index & images (land, birth, death, voters)
• Big Horn County – Montana, Big Horn County Records, 1884-2011, index & images (deeds, homesteads, probate, naturalization, birth, death, marriage)
• Cascade County – Montana, Cascade County Records, 1880-2009, index & images (birth, marriage, death, probate, voters, naturalization, court, land)
• Chouteau County – Montana, Chouteau County Records,1876-2011, index & images (birth, marriage, death, school census, wills & probate, naturalization, land, court)
• Deer Lodge County – Montana, Deer Lodge County, Anaconda, Cemetery Records, 1878-2005, index links to images
• Flathead County – Montana, Flathead County Records, 1871-2007, index & images (death, court, divorce, land, probate, birth, death)
• Granite County – Montana, Granite County Records, 1865-2009, index & images (birth, marriage, death, naturalization, land, court)
• Judith Basin County – Montana, Judith Basin County Records, 1887-2012, index & images (naturalization, probate, wills, birth, marriage, death)
• Lake County – Montana, Lake County Records, 1857-2010, index & images (court, divorce, land, naturalization, farm names, probate, school census records, birth, marriage, death)
• Meagher County – Montana, Meagher County Records, 1866-2012, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, probate, wills, birth, death)
• Pondera County – Montana, Pondera County Records, 1910-2012, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death)
• Rosebud County – Montana, Rosebud County Records, 1878-2011, index & images (land, wills & probate, birth, death, marriage, voters)
• Sanders County – Montana, Sanders County Records, 1866-2010, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death, voters)
• Sweet Grass County – Montana, Sweet Grass County Records, 1887-2011, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, death)
• Teton County – Montana, Teton County Records, 1881-2012, index & images (land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death)
• Toole County – Montana, Toole County Records, 1913-1960, index & images (burial, court, naturalization, wills & probate, marriage)
• Yellowstone County – Montana, Yellowstone County Records, 1881-2011, index & images (land, marriage, wills & probate, court)

Description & Travel

• Montana: the big sky country

Employees, Officials, & Occupations

• US – United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
• Montana – Montana directory of public affairs, 1864-1955

Ethnic Records

African American Records

• United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images
• United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images

Japanese American Records

• United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index
• United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images

Native American Records

• United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images
• United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
• United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
• United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
• Agency records, 1876-1952
• Agency records, 1887-1951
• Agency records, 1899-1952
• The Assiniboine
• Birth, marriage and death records, 1913-1918
• Census records, 1888-1944
• Census records, 1909-1948
• Crowfoot, chief of the Blackfeet
• Employee records, 1878-1927
• Heirship records, 1907-1950
• Heirship records, 1911-1936
• Heirship records, 1943-1949
• The history of the Chippewa Cree of Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation
• Indian and white in the Northwest : a history of Catholicity in Montana, 1831-1891
• Indian census rolls, Blackfeet Agency, 1890-1939
• Indian census rolls, Crow, 1891-1940
• Indian census rolls, Flathead, 1886-1939
• Indian census rolls, Fort Belknap, 1885-1939
• Indian census rolls, Fort Peck, 1885-1939
• Indian census rolls, Fort Shaw School, 1910
• Indian census rolls, Great Sioux Reservation, 1892
• Indian census rolls, Rocky Boy, 1919-1939
• Indians tribes of the Flathead resevation in western Montana : Salish, Kootenai, Pend D’Oreille
• Individual money ledgers, 1925-1948
• Miscellaneous records, 1883-1926
• Miscellaneous records, 1906-1951
• The Old North trail : or, Life, legends and religion of the Blackfeet Indians
• The Pacific northwest tribes missions collection of the Oregon province archives of the Society of Jesus, 1853-1960
• Ration records, 1904-1938
• Records of funds, 1892-1952
• Records of Indians serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1938-1942
• Records of the Central Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1813-1878
• Records of the Dakota Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1861-1870, and 1877-1878 and of the Wyoming Superintendency, 1870
• Records of the Montana Supintendency of Indian Affairs, 1867-1873
• The Salishan tribes of the western plateaus
• School records, 1879-1951
• School records, 1891-1945
• School records, 1950-1952
• Selected records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs relating to the enrollment of Indians on the Flathead Reservation, 1903-1908
• Vital statistics, 1914-1939
• Welfare applications, 1939-1947
• Welfare rolls, 1950
• Crowfoot, chief of the Blackfeet
• Blackfoot tribe family group sheets
• Campaigns of General Custer in the North-West, and the final surrender of Sitting Bull
• The history of the Chippewa Cree of Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation
• Indians of Montana, Wyoming
• Morning star people, 1965-1973
• Race of sorrows, 1956-1971

Minorities

• United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images

Folklore

• The Assiniboine

Genealogy

• Montana, Cascade County, pedigree charts, 1500s-2000s
• Golden grains of research
• Smoke signals from the Assiniboine Genealogical Society

History

• Calendar of the Montana papers in the William Andrews Clark library (University of California at Los Angeles)
• Campaigns of General Custer in the North-West, and the final surrender of Sitting Bull
• Crow country
• Flags or pigeons : source problems in the literature of Custer’s last stand
• High spots of Custer and Battle of the Little Big Horn literature : (and a few low spots)
• Historical album of Montana
• Historical essays on Montana and the Northwest…
• A history of Montana
• A history of Montana
• History of Montana, 1739-1885 : A history of its discovery and settlement, social and commercial progress, mines and miners, agriculture and stock-growing, churches, schools and societies, Indians and Indian wars, vigilantes, courts of justice, newspaper press, navigation, railroads and statistics, with histories of counties, cities, villages and mining camps
• History of Montana, 1739-1885 : Indians and Indian wars … personal reminiscences of great historic value … and portraints of pioneers ..
• History of the great northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life
• History of the Northwest coast, 1543-1846
• History of Washington, Idaho and Montana, 1845-1889
• An illustrated history of the state of Montana : containing a history of the state of Montana from the earliest period of its discovery to the present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future; illustrations and full-page portraits of some of its eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers and prominent citizens of today.
• An illustrated history of the Yellowstone Valley : embracing the counties of Park, Sweet Grass, Carbon, Yellowstone, Rosebud, Custer and Dawson, state of Montana
• Judith Basin pioneers : a study of early days in central Montana, together with the genealogy of the Murray family
• Missouri River and its utmost source : curtailed narration of geologic primitive and geographic distinctions descriptive of the evolution and discovery of the river and its headwaters
• Montana
• Montana : the big sky country
• Montana : the treasure state
• Montana directory of public affairs, 1864-1955
• Montana gold rush
• Montana, its story and biography : a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood
• Montana, its story and biography : a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood
• The night the mountain fell : the story of the Montana-Yellowstone earthquake
• Once their home, or, Our legacy from the Dahkotahs : historical, biographical, and incidental from far-off days, down to the present
• Once their home, or, Our legacy from the Dahkotahs : historical, biographical, and incidental, from far-off days down to the present
• Open range days in old Montana and Wyoming
• Oregon Territory centennial
• Origin of some Montana Place names
• Red Lodge-Meeteetse Trail
• Sons and daughters of Montana pioneers : Beaverhead County’s pictorial tribute to the pioneers
• Vigilante days and ways : the pioneers of the Rockies, the makers and making of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming
• 1860 census; Bitter Root Valley and Ponderay Mountains area of Washington Territory, now in the state of Montana
• Every-name index to Stout’s Montana : its story and biography
• Abstractions from Fort Owen ledger
• Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana with its transactions, officers and members
• Montana Post
• The Tri-county searcher (Broken Mountains Genealogical Society, Chester, Montana)
• Major James McLaughlin papers, 1855-1937
• Montana : the treasure state

Government & Politics

• Montana Boys State, August 15-23, 1964

Libraries, Museums, & Archives

• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 04, Department of War, no. 25, Montana
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 09, Department of Agriculture, no. 25, Montana
• Guide to public vital statistics in Montana
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 02, Federal Courts, no. 25, Montana
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 03, Department of the Treasury, no. 25, Montana
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 10, Department of Commerce, no. 25, Montana
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 11, Department of Labor, no. 25, Montana
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 12, Veterans’ Administration, no. 25, Montana
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 16, Farm Credit Administration, no. 25, Montana
• Inventory of the county archives of Montana : no. 5 Carbon, no. 16 Gallatin, no. 34 Park, no. 48 Stillwater, no. 49 Sweet Grass

Medical

• United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991, index
• Montana’s greatest charity : the story of Montana Children’s Home and Hospital, Shodair Hospital for Crippled Children, Florence Crittenton Home
• Nursing in Montana

Newspapers

• Obituary clippings from The Billings Gazette, Lovell Chronicle, The Yellowstone County News, and The Billings Outpost, covering the years 2002, 2003, 2004
• Date and source information for the biography files in the Montana Room at the Parmly Billings Library

Public Records

• United States Public Records, 1970-2009, index

Societies

• The hands of the workmen : a history of the first 100 years of the Grand Lodge of Montana, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons
• Ninety years of the Scottish rite in Montana
• Society of Montana Pioneers; constitution, members and officers, with portraits and maps
• Society of Montana Pioneers; constitution, members and officers, with portraits and maps
• Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana with its transactions, officers and members
• Minutes of the … annual assembly

Montana Military Records

• United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
• Montana, Military Records, 1904-1918, index links to images
• United States Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865
• United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865
• United States Revolutionary War, Virginia Pension Application Files, 1830-1875
• United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians, 1861-1866
• United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians, 1861-1866
• Montana, Military Records, 1904-191851,225Apr 9, 2019
• Montana, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945144,392Nov 27, 2019
• United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955
• United States Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, 1862-1874
• United States, Cancelled, Relinquished, or Rejected Land Entry Case Files, 1861-1932
• United States, Homestead Final Certificates, 1863-1909
• United States, Freedmen’s Branch Records, 1872-1878
• United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
• United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, index & images
• United States National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel Files, 1954-1970, index
• United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, index & images
• United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images
• United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images
• United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index links to images
• Campaigns of General Custer in the North-West, and the final surrender of Sitting Bull
• Directory of the organizations and units, Montana national guard
• List of dead and wounded of First Montana Infantry
• High spots of Custer and Battle of the Little Big Horn literature : (and a few low spots)
• Photographer on an army mule

Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

• United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images
• United States Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications, 1800-1900, index links to images
• United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, index & images

Mexican-American War, 1846-1848

• United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848, index & images
• United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, index & images

US Civil War

• United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865, index links to images
• United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index links to images
• United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images
• United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
• United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images

Indian Wars

• United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images

Spanish-American War

• Montana, military records, 1904-1918

World War I

• United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index links to images
• United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index & images
• Montana, military records, 1904-1918
• Montana, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths, 1917-1919
• Montana, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, (1917-1918)

World War II

• Montana, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945, index links to images
• United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, index
• United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, index & images
• Montana, World War II draft registration cards, 1940-1947

Veterans, Enlistments, Pensions

• United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images
• United States Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications, 1800-1900, index links to images
• United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index links to images
• United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images
• United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images

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