Bear Lake County, Idaho:
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Projects

• Bear Lake County Genealogy Trails      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Bear Lake County IDGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Cache County, UT  to the southwest
• Caribou County, ID  to the north
• Franklin County, ID  to the west
• Lincoln County, WY  to the east
• Rich County, UT  to the south

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

• Bear Lake Co, Idaho, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Bear Lake County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Bear Lake County GEDCOM Index 
• Bloomington GEDCOM Index 
• Montpelier GEDCOM Index 
• Paris GEDCOM Index 
• Progressive Men of Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Fremont and Oneida Counties, Idaho      (Source: Google Books)
• Progressive Men of Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Fremont and Oneida Counties, Idaho      (Source: Brigham Young University - Idaho)
• Tullidge's Histories (Volume II)  Containing the History of All the Northern, Eastern and Western Counties of Utah; Also the Counties of Southern Idaho with a Biographical Appendix     (Source: Google Books)

Cemeteries

• Bear Lake County      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• Bear Lake County  Idaho Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Bear Lake County Cemeteries      (Source: ePodunk)
• Bear Lake County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Cemeteries in Bear Lake County, Idaho  Index     (Source: Wyoming/Nebraska Genealogy)
• Cemeteries of Bear Lake County      (Source: Interment.net)
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)

Census Records and Indexes (15)

Estate Records

• Bear Lake County, Idaho Will Testators Index  1879-1919     (Source: SAMPUBCO)

History

• Bear Lake County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Bear Lake County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Bear Lake Valley Historical Information 
• A Brief History of Bear Lake Valley 
• National Register of Historic Places 
• Tullidge's Histories (Volume II)  Containing the History of All the Northern, Eastern and Western Counties of Utah; Also the Counties of Southern Idaho with a Biographical Appendix     (Source: Google Books)

• Histories of specific towns and townships

  • History of the town of Sharon, Idaho      (Source: Wayback Machine)

• Tornados, Blizzards, Floods, World's Fairs and other events

  • Bear Lake County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Bear Lake County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Fish Creek, ID Transport Plane Crashes In Mountains, Jan 1953      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides (11)

Land Records

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

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Bear Lake County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• National Oregon/California Trail Center  at Montpelier, Idaho
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Bear Lake County, Idaho     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• Bear Lake County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Bear Lake County, ID Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• IDBEARLA-L Bear Lake County genealogy

  • IDBEARLA-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • IDBEARLA-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • IDBEARLA-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (10)

Military Records and Histories

• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Bear Lake County, Idaho     (Source: Internet Archive)

• World War I

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

• World War II

  • Bear Lake County, Idaho  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Bear Lake County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Bear Lake County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through Bear Lake County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Bear Lake County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Historical Montpelier Newspapers      (Source: Newspaper Archive)     ($)
• The News-Examiner  Mar 1, 2006 - Feb 27, 2008     (Source: Google News Archive)
• News-Examiner  Montpelier, Idaho     (Source: World Vital Records - mix of free and fee)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Bear Lake County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Historical Postcards of Bear Lake County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

School Records and Histories

• Montpelier School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Montpelier, ID High School Class of 1920      (Source: Old-Yearbooks.com)
• Paris, ID Fielding Academy Class of 1920      (Source: Old-Yearbooks.com)

Societies

• Daughters of Utah Pioneers  Bear Lake Company

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (60)

Transportation and Industry

• Bear Lake County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Building histories of Bear Lake County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• History of Phosphate Mining  in Southeastern Idaho
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• The Oregon Trail in Bear Lake County, Idaho      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Patents  Bear Lake County, Idaho     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

• 1880 Mortality Census      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Bear Lake County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Bear Lake County, Idaho     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Western States Marriage Record Index  includes Bear Lake County 1866-1935     (Source: Brigham Young University - Idaho)

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