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/VNB.2ACE/545.1 Message Board Post: As your mother was born long before 1967, you should be able to obtain a copy of her original birth certificate from the Montana Dept. of Public Health & Human Services according to the following information: http://www.calib.com/naic/pubs/as_mt.htm The following link will give you the address to DPHHS/Vital Records and many links to adoption search sites: http://members.aol.com/deitrahs/MONTANA.html It is much less expensive to obtain a copy of the birth certificate from Silver Bow County, rather than the Dept. of Vital Records. Go to this site, and scroll down to "How To Obtain Copies of Vital Records, etc." http://www.mtech.edu/silverbow/ If this link should not work for some reason, then go to the page where you posted your message and click on "Links and Announcements." Good luck!