Are you looking for Virginia City obituaries and death records? While this is very useful in researching a family name, you are actually limited in what you can find when you search only for basic information. Virginia City obituaries, unlike death records, contain detailed information about the person's life - not just the name and date of death. In fact, Virginia City, MT newspaper articles originally published Montana obituaries. A fairly recent phenomenon is the archiving of these Virginia City obituaries, first through microfilm, and then through online databases.
Virginia City obituaries include personal information on the character of the deceased and the accomplishments to his/her name. For example, Virginia City, Montana obituaries might reveal to you that the subject was born in 1957, and that she had four siblings. Virginia City, Montana obituaries further detail where the woman in question grew up, attended schools and worked.