Montana Newspapers

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Libraries and Archives
The Montana Historical Society has the largest collection of Montana newspapers. The society has a card file of obituaries, primarily from pre-1920 newspapers.

The Montana State University Libraryand the Mansfield Library at the University of Montana also have some newspaper collections. The Family History Library has not acquired newspapers from the state.

United States Newspaper Directory
The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present is a national directory from the Library of Congress of over 140,000 newspaper titles. The directory provides a list of libraries from around the country that have the newspapers in their collections.

Digital Issues Online

 * Montana Online Historic Newspapers - Identifies historical newspapers available online at both free and pay-to-access websites.
 * |1*2|1*29%26 Ancestry.com ($) has a good collection of digital Montana newspapers.
 * GenealogyBank.com ($) has nearly two dozen Montana newspaper titles.
 * NewspaperArchive.com ($) has a collection of digitized Montana newspapers online. This database is sometimes free at libraries under the name Access NewspaperArchive.
 * Smalltownpapers.com
 * Chronicling America has some historical issues for the state of Montana online.