Custer County, Montana:
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Projects

• Custer County MT      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Custer County, Montana      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Carter County, MT  to the southeast
• Fallon County, MT  to the east
• Garfield County, MT  to the northwest
• Powder River County, MT  to the south
• Prairie County, MT  to the north
• Rosebud County, MT  to the west

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

• Custer Co, Montana, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Custer County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• 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

• Cemeteries of Custer County      (Source: Interment.net)
• Custer County  Montana Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Custer County Cemeteries      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• Custer County Cemeteries      (Source: ePodunk)
• Custer County Cemeteries      (Source: Graves-R-Us)
• Custer County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Eastern Montana State Veterans Cemetery, MT 
• Eastern Montana State Veterans Cemetery, MT  included in the VA's Nationwide Gravesite Locator
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)

Census Records and Indexes (16)

History

• Custer County  Montana, Its Story and Biography, 1921     (Source: Digital Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, UMT-Missoula)
• Custer County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Custer County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Custer County History      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• 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)
• National Register of Historic Places 

• Histories of specific towns and townships

  • Miles City Medial History  1878-2005     (Source: Montana Memory Project)
  • Sketch of Miles City  Montana, Its Story and Biography, 1921     (Source: Digital Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, UMT-Missoula)
  • The Origins of Miles City 

• Library

  • Th Public Library, Miles City  Montana, Its Story and Biography, 1921     (Source: Digital Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, UMT-Missoula)

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

  • Carbon, Cascade, Chouteau and Custer County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Custer County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Custer Creek, MT Washout Of Trestle Causes Wreck, June 1938      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Miles City, Montana Weather History      (Source: Weather Underground)
  • Miles City, MT Drowning, May 1928      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Miles City, MT Plane Crashes Trying To Land, Mar 1964      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Miles City, MT Plane Overshoots Runway And Crashes, May 1942      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides (11)

Land Records

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

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Custer County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Custer County Libraries  Montana Library Directory
• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Custer County, Montana     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• Custer County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Custer County, MT Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• MTCUSTER-L Custer County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (11)

Military Records and Histories

• Custer, Fort, MO  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Fort Keough      (Source: Montana Memory Project)
• Keogh, Fort, MT  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Custer County, Montana     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Miles City Veterans      (Source: Montana Memory Project)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Custer County     (Source: Family History Library)

• World War I

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

• World War II

  • Custer County, Montana  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)
  • Miles City WWII Peggy Letters      (Source: Montana Memory Project)

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Custer County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• The Daily Yellowstone Journal  Jan 20, 1834 - Sep 11, 1889     (Source: Google News Archive)
• Daily Yellowstone journal, Miles City, Mont.  1882-1890
• The Independent  Aug 27, 1903 - Jan 2, 1919     (Source: Google News Archive)
• Miles City Independent  Jan 4, 1911 - Dec 1, 1922     (Source: Google News Archive)
• Montana Library Network Newspaper Index  includes Ismay Journal and nine Miles City newspapers
• The Yellowstone Journal  Aug 1, 1891 - Jul 4, 1901     (Source: Google News Archive)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• The Miles City Star 
• Miles City Star      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Custer County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Custer County Photo Index  MTGenWeb Photo Archive     (Source: USGenWeb)
• Historical Postcards of Custer County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Montana--Custer County--Miles City.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Montana--Custer County.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Montana--Miles City.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Penny Postcards from Montana      (Source: USGenWeb Montana Archives)

School Records and Histories

• Miles City School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Miles City, MT Custer Co. High School Class of 1920      (Source: Old-Yearbooks.com)

Societies

• Miles City Genealogical Society      (Source: Wayback Machine)
• Powder River Chapter  Miles City     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (73)

Transportation and Industry

• The Buffalo Rapids Project  Bureau of Reclamation History Program
• Building histories of Custer County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Custer County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Custer County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Miles City Saddlemakers      (Source: Montana Memory Project)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Custer County, Montana     (Source: Google Patents)
• Water resources survey, Custer County, Montana  Part 1, 1948     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Water resources survey, Custer County, Montana, 1948  Part 2, Maps showing irrigated areas in colors designating the sources of supply     (Source: Internet Archive)

Vital Records

• Custer County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Custer County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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