This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/INB.2ACE/1519.1 Message Board Post: To obtain obits, you can try the Rootsweb Volunteer Obituary Look-up Board, which has one volunteer listed who does obit look-ups in "The Missoulian," the local newspaper: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~obitl/volmt.html Or, you can try Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK), who lists several volunteers who will do obit look-ups in Missoula County: http://www.raogk.org/montana.htm For hard copies, you may be asked to pay for cost of making copies & postage. Hope the above information helps. Both the Rootsweb Obit Look-up Board and the RAOGK Boards have listings for all 50 states and several countries.