WARNING, THESE ARE LARGE FILES. VIEWED BEST BY HIGH SPEED INTERENT VITAL STATISTICS  1882-1901 These are names that appeared in the Billings Gazette, Billings Weekly Times or Billings Post between May of 1882 and 31 December 1901. Also listed are the date(s) of the listing, the type of event and the place where the person lived or where the event took place. Types of events include birth or death announcements, granting of business licenses, marriage licenses, voter records, homestead applications, student records, naturalizations, lists of delinquent taxpayers—anything that leaves a paper trail.  The early Gazettes covered a huge circulation area from northern Wyoming to the western Dakotas to the entire state of Montana so although records are mostly from the Billings area, many are from adjacent areas. There are almost no obits in the early papers. Announcements of deaths tend to be very brief, sometimes no more than a single line unless the person was very well-known.