Idaho, Lemhi County Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

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 * compiled by Lemhi County history Committee, Hon. Fred Snook, chairman, Centennial history of Lemhi County, Idaho 3 volumes. Salmon, Idaho : Lemhi County History Committee, c1992 979.678 H2c
 * Lemhi County, deed records, 1868-1941
 * Lemhi County, land records, 1869-1964
 * Lemhi County, estate case files, 1869-1981
 * Lemhi County, marriage records, 1887-1961
 * Lemhi County, marriage records and certificates of appraisement, 1869-1890
 * Lemhi County, naturalization records, 1871-1941
 * Lemhi County, school records, 1888-1946
 * Lemhi County, soldiers' discharges, 1919-1948

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 * prepared by the Historical Records Survey Division of Women's and Professional Projects, Works Progress Administration, Inventory of the county archives of Idaho, no. 30, Lemhi County Boise, Idaho : Historical Records Survey, 1938
 * George Elmo Shoup, History of Lemhi County Boise, Idaho : Idaho State Library, 1969

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