My cousin's husband has been researching ancestors in Musselshell County, Montana. He made contact with a woman there who enjoys doing lookups. She spent time locating material at the courthouse and also goes through newspaper files for surnames of interest.
One of the interesting pieces of information was a document labeled "Registration of Firearms and Weapons" from 1918. The date and place of birth of the respondent was part of the information collected!
We knew that the family migrated from central Minnesota to Montana via North Dakota but were not sure of the dates. The respondent's reported birth in a specific North Dakota town in 1904 was very helpful in figuring out the migration pattern.
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