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Genealogy Resource List
The following items are located in the Genealogy/Historical section.

      Directories

  • Nebraska City Directories:  1870, 1881-1882*, 1891-1892, 1893-1894, 1898, 1905-1906*, 1910-1911, 1926-1927*, 1937*, 1940, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988 through current edition. (*Includes surrounding towns or Otoe County by precinct.) 
  • Otoe County Directory, 1891.
  • Nebraska City Telephone Directories:  1923, 1927, 1934, 1939 through 1944, 1946 through 1954, 1957, 1959, 1961.  Dunbar Telephone Directory, 1921.  Otoe County Farm Directory, 1942.
  • Cemeteries

  • Wyuka Cemetery Internments, Nebraska City, NE, 1855-1971.
  • Wyuka Cemetery Internments, January 1855 - March 2002.
  • Wyuka Cemetery, Nebraska City, Internments and Monumental Inscriptions, 1855-1957 by Leonard Tomlyn.
  • St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, Nebraska City, NE.
  • St. Benedict’s Catholic Cemetery, Nebraska City, NE., Old and New Cemetery.
  • Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery, Avoca, NE. / St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Talmage, NE./St. Bernard's Cemetery, Julian, NE.
  • Union Cemetery, Otoe (Berlin) Union, NE. / Delaware Cemetery, Dunbar, NE. /  Rosewood Cemetery, Palmyra, NE. / Warner Cemetery (Burials to 1907), Syracuse, NE. /  Park Hill Cemetery (Burials to 1909) Syracuse, NE. (incomplete). Complete directory for Park Hill Cemetery available at cemetery
  • Cowles Hill Cemetery, Otoe County, NE.
  • Fairview-Dudley Cemetery, Syracuse, NE. / North Branch Lutheran Cemetery (south section only), Otoe, NE. / Wilcox Cemetery, Burr, NE.
  • Camp Creek Cemetery, 1866-1929, Otoe County, NE.
  • Historical Records, Otoe County, NE, Cemetery Records, only graves with markers, 1854-1907.  Vol. 1 Towns A-N,  Vol. 2 Towns O-Z.
  • Nebraska Cemeteries and Known Burial Sites, Parts 1 & 2, Nebraska State Genealogy Society.
  • First Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbyterian Church), 1871-1915, Dunbar, NE, Cemetery and Church Register.
  • Cass County Cemetery Records:
                          Buck                     East Union
                          Kenosha                West Union
                          Rock Bluff              Scoita
                          Lewiston               Pleasant Grove
     Microfilm

        Please use only 1 microfilm at a time; return to Front Desk before making another selections.

  • Nebraska City Newspapers, 1854-February 29, 2000.
  • Wyoming (NE) Telescope, April 3, 1858 to June 5, 1858.
  • Wyoming (NE) Post, June 11, 1857 to September 3, 1859.
  • The Otoe County Grit (Dunbar, NE), November 18, 1898 to May 26, 1899.
  • Dunbar (NE) Review, October 11, 1900 to October 31, 1912 and November 7, 1912 to January 3, 1936.
  • Federal Census Records of Nebraska Territory, 1860.
  • Federal Census Records of Nebraska, Otoe, Cass, and Nemaha Counties, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910.
  • Federal Census Records of Nebraska, all counties, 1920.
  • Federal Census Records of Nebraska, all counties, 1930.
  • Nebraska State Census, Otoe, Cass, and Nemaha Counties, 1885.
  • Nebraska Census, Veterans/Widows, Cass, Douglas, Gage through Saunders, 1890.
  • Nebraska Special Census Records, 8th Census, 1850-1860, Agricultural, Industry and Social Schedules.
  • Otoe County Marriage Records, 1856-1987.  Includes index.
  • J. Sterling Morton Papers, 1849-1902.
  • Otoe, Union, Unadilla , Nebr. Mar 8, 1912 - Dec 28, 1928
  • Palmyra Items, Palmyra Nebr. Sep 17, 1887 - Jun 1, 1945
  • Talmage Tribune Sep 9, 1886 - Feb 10, 1927

 

     Miscellaneous Books
  • 1865 Otoe County Census.
  • Nebraska Territorial Census Index, 1854, 1855, 1856.
  • Nebraska Territorial Census Index, 1860.
  • Nebraska Mortality Index, 1860, 1870, 1880.
  • Nebraska 1870 Federal Census Index A-Z.
  • Congregational Church of Camp Creek, Otoe County, NE.
  • A History of Camp Creek, It’s Church, Cemetery and School, 1854-1900.
  • NCHS (Nebraska City High School) 100th Anniversary, 1880-1980.  Lists names of graduates starting with 1880 through 1980.
  • Otoe County Pioneers:  A Biographical Dictionary by Raymond Dale, Vols. 1-10.
  • History of the State of Nebraska by A.T. Andreas, 1882,  Vols. 1 & 2.
  • Illustrated History of Nebraska by J. Sterling Morton, 1905, Vols. 1-3.
  • Otoe County History, 1983.
  • Biographical Album of Otoe & Cass Counties, NE, 1889, Vols. 1 & 2.
  • Our Centennial Year, Bethel United Church of Christ, 1887-1987.
  • A Glimpse of the Past...A Pictorial History of Otoe County, 1996.

    Files and atlases - ask Librarian for assistance

  • Genealogy Vertical Files.
  • Historical Vertical Files.
  • Atlas of Otoe County, NE, 1922, 1963 and 1977.
  • Munn’s Atlas of Otoe County, NE, 1902.
  • Standard Atlas of Otoe County, 1912 and 1917.
  • The Official State Atlas of Nebraska, 1885.

     Family histories

  • Historical Sketches of the Fallis, Byerley and Kindred Families by Jacquelyn Snyder Addington.
  • Ancestry of Carl Eugene Bebout 1902-1980 by George Bebout.
  • Grandparents are Great!  The History and Genealogy of the Darcy-Dorsey Family by Lois Colette Dorsey Bennington.
  • Grandparents are Great!  The History and Genealogy of the Mosher Family by Lois Colette Dorsey Bennington.
  • The Allgood and Padgett Connection by Joy I. Bridenstein.
  • Enoch Harper Wilson by Donna Wilson Crabtree.
  • Nebraska Farmer’s Son by Laurence L. Falk.
  • Family History of William Bischof.
  • The Gudes Gestern und Heute by Herbert Gude.
  • The Gibsons and Orrs: Pioneer Families:  a Family History by Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch.
  • The Descendants of Johann Heinrich Holscher by Darlene Holscher James.
  • The Irland Family History by Kenneth L. Irland.
  • Journals of Lewis Compton Burnett 1848-1906.
  • Our Wuertele Heritage by Sheryl Wuertele Kremer.
  • The Keyser Family:  Henry’s Children by Willet Keyser.
  • Kreifels Family Book.
  • The Kussman Heritage.
  • Zibeon and Gertrude Earl:  Nebraska Pioneers by John Earl Lindell.
  • Bender-Bainter-Painter-Smith and the Allied Families of Phillipson-Marino-Alioto by Joseph Linn Marino.
  • The Oregon Journey of Alexander and Rebecca McQuinn.
  • Myers Family.
  • Gaunt-Gant Family: Some of the Descendants of Peter Gaunt of Sandwich, Massachusett by Mary Chalfant Ormsbee.
  • Herman and Agte Neemann Family Ancestors and Decendants 1768-1988 by Esther M. Peterson.
  • Forebears Faring by Otis Dunbar Richardson.  (Richardson-Dunbar-MacCuaig families)
  • The History and Genealogy of the Ruhge-Ruhga family by Justin M. Ruhge
  • Family History of Joseph Anton Sand by Paul Frederick Sand.
  • Sheldon in America by Henry Olcott Sheldon.
  • John Spiers life as a Mormon Pioneer by Duane E. Spiers.
  • Wilhelm-Mitzner-Wenzel Roots and Branches by Gladys Wenzel.
  • A McAllister History with Wood, Robinson, Barksdale Branches by Gladys Wenzel.
  • In the Long Run : The Sum and Substance by Vada Long Whetham.  (Long family)
  • Sara Jane Whitten.
  • Stray Leaves by Waldo Willhoft.  (Willhoft-Fitzekam families)
  • Thomas Joy and His Descendants by J.R. Joy.
  • The descendents of Frederick William Heinke, Sr. by Richard M. Heinke and Carolyn Teske.
  • Descendents of Issac and Hetty Ann S(c)ears complied by Sharon L Davies.
     

    

 Other sources:
Other sources: Websites:
Nebraska Bureau of Vital Statistics
14th & M Sts.
PO Box 95065
Lincoln, NE  68509-5065
402-471-2871
Birth and death records since 1904 only

E-mail Vitalrecords@hhss.state.ne.us

Http://www.vitalrec.com/ne.html

 

 

Nebraska State Historical Society
1500 R St.
PO Box 82554
Lincoln, NE  68501
402-471-4751

http://www.ancestry.com/
http://www.heritagequest.com/genealogy/help/
http://www.cyndislist.com/ 
http://www.familysearch.org
http://usgenweb.com

Syracuse newpapers available at The Museum of Memories in Syracuse, NE.


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