Western Montana Genealogical Society

The Western Montana Genealogical Society was incorporated as a non-profit, educational organization on April 29, 1980 with an original membership of forty-eight charter members. Its purpose is to promote and encourage active interest in genealogy; to compile accurate and complete genealogies; to collect and preserve genealogical records, to foster education and training in genealogy through courses and instruction in genealogy, lectures, forums, seminars, special workshops, and publications; to locate genealogical records and make them available to the public through cooperation with records repositories and other means; to collect, preserve and disseminate knowledge and information with reference to genealogical and related historical, biographical, and heraldic data.