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Genealogy Page: Omaha & Nebraska Historical Print Sources


Everything cited on this list is available in the History and Social Sciences Department
Cemetery Records | City Directories
Historical News Papers | Military Records | Miscellaneous
Cemetery Records
  • Colfax County
    • Colfax County, Nebraska, Cemeteries: This is filed in the Genealogy Room. (929.3782532 M33c)
  • Dodge County
    • Dodge County Recorded Cemeteries: This is filed in the Genealogy Room. (929.3782235 D 66)
  • Douglas County, Omaha
    • Calvary: Alphabetical list of burial cards. Dates: unknown through 9-17-1980.
    • Holy Sepulchre: Alphabetical list of burial cards. Dates: unknown through 9-17-1980.
    • Laurel Hill: Alphabetical list of burial cards. Dates: unknown.
    • Prospect Hill: Indexed by lot owners, interment register, miscellaneous disinternment permits, etc.
    • St. Mary's: Alphabetical list of burial cards. Dates: unknown through 9-17-1980.
    • St. Mary's, St. Mary Magdalene, Holy Sepulchre: Interment registers and other miscellanea.
  • Saunders County
    • Saunders County, Nebraska, Cemetery Records: This is filed in the Genealogy Room. (929.3782296 Sa 87)
  • Washington County
    • Blair Cemetery: This is an A to Z list. It is filed in the Genealogy Room. (929.3782245 B 57)
City Directories
  • Beatrice 1904 - 35
  • Council Bluffs: 1866-1977
  • Fremont 1903 - 36
  • Hastings: 1891-99, 1903-1915, 1917-1926, 1928-1935
  • Kearney 1904 - 33
  • Norfolk: 1911-1920, 1922-1935
  • Omaha: 1866-2001 (Paper copies/1899-2001: 3rd floor service desk)
Military Records
  • G.A.R. Index to Nebraska Members: Alphabetical
  • Nebraska Adjutant General: G.A.R., Civil War veterans buried in Nebraska, alphabetical
  • Nebraska Adjutant General: G.A.R., Dept. of Nebraska, 1911, 4 vols., alphabetical
  • Nebraska Adjutant General: World War I service records, alphabetical
  • Spanish American War: service cards
  • Volunteer Union Soldiers: index of service records of miscellaneous Nebraska organizations.
Miscellaneous
  • Federal Non-Population Decennial Census:
    • Nebraska Schedules (1860-1880)
  • Naturalizations Index:
    • Nebraska and 63 Iowa counties, 1906 and prior
  • Sarpy County Marriage Records:
    • September 12, 1857 through July 22, 1913
  • State Department Territorial Papers: Nebraska 1854-1867
    • Wagon Roads : Secretary of the Interior, 1857-1887
    • Ward Maps of U.S. Cities and Enumeration District Descriptions