BeaverheadGenWeb

The GenWeb Project for Beaverhead County Montana is up for adoption as of April 2012. If you are interested in becoming its County Coordinator, contact the State Coordinator at MontanaGenWeb.
(For questions concerning this page and its contents, email webmasters.)

Geography

         

Surrounding Counties

MTGenWeb County referral page

• Ravalli County— Hamilton
• Granite County— Philipsburg
• Deer Lodge County— Anaconda
• Silver Bow County— Butte
• Madison County— Virginia City
• Gallatin County— Bozeman

IDGenWeb County referral page

• Clark County— Dubois, Idaho
• Fremont County— Saint Anthony, Idaho
• Lemhi County— Salmon, Idaho

Genealogy Resources

Archives for Montana

The MTGenWeb Archive has county links including Beaverhead County files. There are many and varied resources available, such as obituaries, military records, indexes to selected history books, Montana towns listed with their counties, memorials, population census extracts, school census, voter and tax rolls, pioneer immigrant lists, news articles, etc.

The MTGenWeb Photo Archive has photos of state-wide relevance, such as the Capitol building, old territorial prison, various county courthouses, museums, veterans, old maps, and even old menus from around Montana. There are also links to each county, including Beaverhead County photos.

Public Query Forum

There is a free RootsWeb discussion list devoted to genealogy and history. It is categorized by geography, from the world level down to Beaverhead county. You can read others' queries and messages, search them, leave your own queries or responses, etc. Responses are purely dependant on public response— nobody is designated to answer queries or questions posted on the list. To join the list via e-mail in list mode or digest mode type subscribe and nothing else in the body of the email.

Genealogical Society

The BeaverHead Hunters Genealogical Society provides research including both queries and on-line index searches (U.S. Census, marriage, obituary, naturalization, and school census records), as well as contacts for more in-depth research.

Other Sources of Information

• WorldGenWeb | USGenWeb | MTGenWeb Projects
  
• Montana Death Index on-line browsable by decade increments, one surname first letter at a time.
• Lima Historical Society (email)
      PO Box 2
      Lima, Montana 59739
      Connie Strang, director; ph (406) 276-3394
• Beaverhead County Museum
      15 S. Montana
      Dillon, Montana 59725
• Dillon City Library
• University of Montana—Western (previously WMC— Western Montana College)
• Beaverhead County Courthouse
      2 S. Pacific
      Dillon, Montana 59725

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