Family Tree USA – September 2019

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Stillwater

Carter

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Sweet Grass Treasure

Yellowstone

Fallon

Wheatland Golden Valley

Musselshell

Broadwater

Rosebud

Custer

Meagher

Prairie

Wibaux

Judith

Basin

Cascade Petroleum

Fergus Dawson

Garfield

McCone

Richland

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Roosevelt

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Fresno
Res.
Nelson Res.
Miles City
Laurel
Livingston
Lewistown
Belgrade
Glendive
Sidney
Red Lodge
Columbus Hardin
Forsyth
Roundup
Townsend
Glasgow Wolf Point
Malta
Shelby
Big Timber
Baker
Harlowton
Fort Benton
Scobey Plentywood
Chinook
Broadus
Ekalaka
Hysham
Ryegate
Te r r y
White Sulphur Springs
Winnett Wibaux
Jordan
Circle
Stanford
Chester
West Yellowstone
Ennis
Three
Forks
Bridger Lodge Grass
Joliet
Clyde Park
Broadview
Plevna
Ismay
Judith Gap Melstone
Hobson
Neihart
Denton
Richey
Cascade Belt
Geraldine Winifred
Fort Peck
Poplar Culbertson
Dutton
Medicine Lake
Big Sandy
Dodson Saco
Harlem
Outlook
Hingham
Opheim
Havre
Bozeman
Billings
Great Falls
1914
Montana women
win the right to
vote in presidential
elections
1916
Jeannette Rankin
of Missoula is
the fi rst woman
elected to Congress
1996
The FBI captures
Unabomber Ted
Kaczynski in a cabin
near Lincoln
2002
The PBS real-
ity show “Frontier
House” re-creates
Montana pioneer
life for three
modern families
2009
The Glacier Wind
Farm becomes
Montana’s largest
wind farm
MONTANA
CANADA
Territory separately. Treasure Staters’ fi rst post-statehood
census— 1890—was lost to fi re. The only remaining por-
tion is a schedule of Union veterans and widows. Montana
hasn’t taken any state censuses.
LAND: Montana is a public-land state—the federal
government originally owned the land, and sold par-
cels to individuals via the General Land Offi ce. Search
a free index to these land patents at <www.glorecords.
blm.gov>. Then order your ancestor’s land entry case
fi le, which may contain more records, from NARA (see
divorces begins in 1943, but request the records from
your ancestor’s county. Many records on microfi lm at
the Family History Library (FHL) are now also search-
able at its website. The Western States Marriage Record
Index <abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates>
lists more than 20,000 Montanta marriages and related
microfi lmed records.
FEDERAL CENSUS: The 1860 Nebraska Territory
census counted some residents in southern Montana;
the 1870 and 1880 US censuses enumerated Montana
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