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County |
State
File Number |
Last
Name |
First
Name |
Middle |
Date of
Death |
Year |
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Flathead |
2231 |
AABERGE |
DAISIE |
THEO
LUCILLE |
4/12/2003 |
2003 |
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1315 |
AABERGE |
ETHEL |
M |
2/19/2006 |
2006 |
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1912 |
AABY |
MARIE |
MARTHA |
3/21/2007 |
2007 |
Orders for both of these valuable CDs
may be sent to MSGS,
If you do find errors in any of these records, please complete the
following information and send to Jim Edgar with the Montana Dept. of Public
Health and Human Services. He will check it against the paper copies in
his vault and inform MSGS of the correct information so that we can improve
our data.
To: Jim Edgar jaedgar@mt.gov
From: _______________________________________________
CORRECTING DEATH DATE INFORMATION
Surname _________________________________
Given Name_______________________________
Database Death Date
information____________________________________________________
Correct
Information_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
The Montana Bureau of Vital Statistics and the Montana State Genealogical Society established a joint venture to computerize the Pre-1954 death indexes. The Bureau arranged for the copying of the original vital records books [available at the Bureau of Statistics] and provided those copies to the Montana State Genealogical Society.
Many of the “early years” deaths in
The pages were then scanned with optical character recognition (OCR) software and captured as Excel data files. As to be expected, there were many problems in the transfer of the data, which required significant human interface to correct. Members of the Society reviewed and edited each page and prepared separate data files. These files then went through a series of edit checks to assure the greatest possible accuracy.
Issues that could not be readily resolved by consulting the copied pages were referred back to the Bureau of Vital Statistics for further clarification. The various columns of data from the pages then were then grouped and consolidated into one for meaningful information; e.g. separate columns for month, day and year of the death that existed in the original scanned pages, were consolidated into a single column, entitled “Date of Death”. Further data verification to assure that the date was correct was then necessary. These completed Excel data files were then transferred into an ACCESS database, and grouped by ten-year increments from 1900 on, and one file for the Pre-1900 dates.
The final Excel files that form the core of the Pre-1954 Access data base contains the following column headings: Index Number, Last Name, First Name, Middle, Sex, Age, Location, County Number, County Name, Item Number, Day, Month, Year, Date of Death and Comments.
There
are several caveats related to the use of these data:
MT Dept. of Public Health and Human Services
Vital Records
The years in this Pre 1954 project have been collected
into decades to support an Access database search routine available in the CD
ROM only, as nearly as possible. Thus,
five separate decade access files were created: 1800-1919, 1920-1929, 1930-1939,
1940-1949 and 1950-1953.
[The “1800-1919” file includes items from the 1800’s
through 1919 – the 1800’s and early 1900 files are relatively
small.]
The primary reasons for this divisional grouping were:
This material is a direct copy of the database material prepared by the Montana Bureau of Vital Statistics. Both sets of indexes are similarly organized, but these records have less information presented, as the numbers of deaths have significantly increased.
A period (“.”) placed into the county field means that means it is an “Out of State” death record.
When printing data from the state’s death indexes (1954 – 2002), you should change the print mode to “landscape” to print the material on a single page.
The pages (from the CD ROM) will print in color, unless the printer mode is first changed to print in “black and white”.
An “*” alongside of the name in the attached files means that it is recorded in the fathers name. Either this person was stillborn, or was never named.
The Montana State Genealogical Society
wishes to thank all the Society members who volunteered their time and effort
to the project. It is also
acknowledged the project could not have been completed without the great
assistance from James Edgar,
Prepared January 11, 2004
Posted
on: Friday, May 01, 2009 (Corrected Address)


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Custer |
JB |
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Wish |
Flathead |
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Dan |
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Jef |
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Pondera |
Wh |
Wheatland |
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Kspl |
Flathead |
Pow |
Powell |
Wx |
Wibaux |
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Dil |
Beaverhead |
La |
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PR |
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Yel |
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DL |
Deer Lodge |
LC |
Lewis & Clark |
Pra |
Prairie |
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DL CY |
Powell |
Lib |
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Rav |
Ravalli |
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Fal |
Fallon |
Lin |
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Rbd |
Rosebud |
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Fer |
Fergus |
Liv |
Park |
Ri |
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