Dawson County, Montana:
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Projects

• Dawson County MT      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Dawson County MTGenWeb      (Source: Legacy USGenWeb)
• Dawson County, Montana      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• McCone County, MT  to the northwest
• Prairie County, MT  to the southwest
• Richland County, MT  to the northeast
• Wibaux County, MT  to the southeast

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Courage Enough Mon-Dak Family Histories      (Source: Montana Memory Project)
• Dawson Co, Montana, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Dawson County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Dawson County GEDCOM Index      (Source: GEDCOM Index .Com)
• An illustrated history of the Yellowstone Valley  Eembracing the counties of Park, Sweet Grass, Carbon, Yellowstone, Rosebud, Custer and Dawson, state of Montana     (Source: Internet Archive)

Cemeteries

• Billion Graves for Dawson County, Montana      (Source: Billion Graves)
• Dawson County  Montana Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Dawson County Cemeteries      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• Dawson County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)

Census Records and Indexes (16)

Church Records

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Church Records, 1826-1945  includes Glendive and Intake, Montana     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Court and Legal Records

• Dawson County Court Records Directory      (Source: Court Records Free Reference and Directory)

History (16)

Immigration and Naturalization Records

• Montana County Naturalization Records, 1867-1970  includes Dawson County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Montana County Naturalizations  1856-1979     (Source: FamilySearch)

Introduction and Guides

• Cyndi's List of Montana locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• Dawson County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Dawson County Public Records      (Source: Nationwide Environmental Title Research)
• FamilySearch Wiki Research Guide      (Source: FamilySearch)

Land Records

• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Dawson County Libraries  Montana Library Directory
• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Frontier Gateway Museum 
• Genealogy Collection  Glendive Public Library
• Glendive Montana Family History Center      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Library Directory for Dawson County, Montana      (Source: libraries.org - A directory of libraries throughout the world)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Dawson County, Montana     (Source: Find My Past)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Lookups

• Dawson County Books      (Source: Books-We-Own)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• MTDAWSON Dawson County genealogy

  • MTDAWSON Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers

• Dawson County Gazetteer      (Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System)
• Dawson County Ghost Towns      (Source: Ghosttowns.com)
• Dawson County Post Offices 
• Dawson County Postal Covers      ($)
• Dawson County Sanborn Maps      (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Individual County Chronologies  Dawson County     (Source: The Newberry Library)
• Map of Dawson County, Montana  roads and trails, 1924     (Source: Montana Memory Project)
• Map of original Dawson County, Montana  showing counties created therefrom, 1920     (Source: Montana Memory Project)

Military Records and Histories

• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Dawson County, Montana     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Dawson County     (Source: FamilySearch)

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Dawson County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Miscellaneous Data

• Dawson County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Dawson County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Glendive Historical Newspapers      (Source: Newspapers.com)     ($)
• Historical Glendive Newspapers      (Source: Newspaper Archive)     ($)
• Montana Library Network Newspaper Index  includes Richey Pilot and six Glendive newspapers
• Search Glendive Historical Newspapers      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• Yellowstone monitor.  Glendive, Mont., 1905-1928     (Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Glendive Funeral Homes      (Source: Legacy.com)
• The Glendive Ranger Review 
• Silha Funeral Homes  Glendive, MT; Wibaux, MT; Beach, ND

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Dawson County Courthouse 
• Dawson County Photo Index  MTGenWeb Photo Archive     (Source: USGenWeb)
• Dawson County Photographs  Jan 1935-June 1944     (Source: Photogrammar)
• Dawson County, Glendive  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Glendive  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Historical Postcards of Dawson County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

School Records and Histories

• Glendive School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Societies

• The Tree Branches 
• Tree Branches Genealogy  Dawson County

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (32)

Transportation and Industry

• The Buffalo Rapids Project  Bureau of Reclamation History Program
• Building histories of Dawson County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Dawson County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Glendive Airport  Glendive, Montana     (Source: Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields)
• The Intake Project  Bureau of Reclamation History Program
• Lower Yellowstone Project  Bureau of Reclamation History Program
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Dawson County, Montana     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

• Birth & Death Records 
• Dawson County Marriage Records      (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Dawson County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Montana County Marriages, 1865-1993  includes Dawson County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Montana Marriages, 1865-1987  includes Dawson County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Dawson County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Wiki

• Dawson County, Montana Wiki      (Source: RootsWeb)

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