Tri-State Genealogical Society

WY-MON-DAK Messenger

The purpose of this page to assist individuals searching for ancestors who resided in the so-called Tri-State area. This area encompasses the land around the junction of South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana and includes: Crook County, WY; Carter County, MT; Butte and Harding Counties in SD, as well as parts of Perkins, Meade, and Lawrence Cos. in South Dakota. We would like this Home Page to be as useful and informative as possible. The Society meets at the Belle Fourche Public Library the 4th Thursday of each month, except Nov. Everyone is welcome!

Membership to the Society is $10 / year, beginning Oct.
Tri-State Genealogical Society
% Public Library
905 5th Ave
Belle Fourche, SD 57717
Membership includes a subscription to WyMonDak Messenger, our quarterly newsletter.
PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, if you have one.

Thanks to the efforts of Howard Ross and Milt Miller, the Society now has available a 15-year index to the WY-MON-DAK Messenger. cost $35.00, includes index, binder & tabs. The Genealogical Society members Howard Ross and Milt Miller have also created a index of the Butte County federal censuses (1880, 1900, 1910, 1920). There is also an index of the earliest tax register for Butte County.

If you would like these Indexes checked for a name, send $2.00 and a SASE. The Messenger Index will be checked and then if the name is found, the page from the newsletter will be sent to you. Send to the above address or the below email. Individual newsletter sell for $1.00 each.

Index from the   A History of Butte County, South Dakota, 1989 --Look-up available

                         Please check the index, then email

PINESLOPE, ST PAUL CATHOLIC AND MINNESELA CEMETERIES

In memory of Ernest Gottschalk ; a man who spent hours searching for unmarked graves in our area. His research is at the Butte County Courthouse.

Go to other genealogical pages:

Butte County GENWEB page

Belle Fourche Home Page
Harding County GENWEB page
Rapid City Society for Genealogical Research
EARLY SOUTH DAKOTA BIRTH -- Great search
South Dakota Genealogical Society Quarterly
www.glorecords.blm.gov South Dakota Bureau of Land Management Database was extracted from data generously provided by the Bureau of Land Management. It includes every homestead, mining and timber claim, as well as cash sales and Indian allotments from 1859 to 1995. Not included are parcels still owned by the U. S. Government, including the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Forest Service, and the National Park System. The database comprises over 600,000 individual land records--totaling over 65 MB of raw text data! The data is arranged by county, then surname of the land patent purchaser. Each file contains information on how to order the patent files from the National Archives. The BLM homestead site is back on-line Check it out . . .
Tri-State Museum

E-mail inquires: Mary Buchholz