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United States Montana Yellowstone County

	Montana Online Records

County Courthouse

Yellowstone County Courthouse
217 N 27th Street  PO Box 35001
Billings, MT 59107-5001
Phone: 406.256.2785 

County Clerk Recorder has birth, death, land
and military records from 1883; Clerk District
Court has marriage, divorce, probate and court records ^[1]

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Montana, Yellowstone County Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

History

Parent County

1883--Yellowstone County was created 26 February 1883 from Gallatin, Meagher, Custer, and Carbon Counties.
County seat: Billings ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Indian Reservation

The Crow Indian Reservation is located primarily in Big Horn County, with a smaller portion in Yellowstone County.

Neighboring Counties

• Big Horn
• Carbon
• Golden Valley
• Musselshell
• Rosebud
• Stillwater
• Treasure

Resources

Cemeteries

Church

LDS Ward and Branch Records

• Billings

Court

Directories

The Parmly Billings Library has made the following available online:

Early Billings City Directories: 1883, 1894, 1900-1901, 1903-1904

Land

Local Histories

Maps

Military

Newspapers

• NewspaperArchive.com ($) has a collection of digitized Montana newspapers online including Billings newspapers that reported on residents of Yellowstone County. This database is sometimes free at libraries.
• Parmly Billings Library: Vital Statistics from early Billings Gazettes Newspapers covering 1882-1902.
• Parmly Billings Library: Billings Gazette Indexes from 1930s and 1940s

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

For marriages from 1881-1903 see Western States Marriage Index.

The following is courtesy of the Parmly Billings Library Genealogical Resources:

• Vital Statistics from Early Billing Gazettes: Over 13,000 births, deaths, business licenses and other records from the early residents as recorded in this newspaper. The index is from 1882-1901 as well as additional indexes covering up to the 1930s.

Societies and Libraries

Montana State Genealogical Society

Montana State Historical Society

Yellowstone Genealogy Forum

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
• Billings Montana Family History Center
• Gardiner Montana Family History Center

Web Sites

• Family History Library Catalog
• Montana State Historical Society
• Yellowstone County GenWeb
• Yellowstone County Genealogy Forum
• Yellowstone National Park History & Culture

References

1. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists : United States of America, 10th ed., (Draper, UT: Everton Publishers, 2002), p. 417.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).

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