Places to visit
As you will see in the following, we are genealogy nuts,
and spend most of our waking moments extracting data,
scanning books and walking cemeteries, to provide
genealogical and historical data on the web.
Web Sites We Coordinate
We have been supporting the
NEGenWeb Project since
1997, and are coordinators of the following sites.
County
Unknown
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Site dedicated to helping viewers find where in
Nebraska their relatives lived.
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Merrick
County
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Provides historical, genealogical and
topographical information about Merrick County
Nebraska. Includes lists from gazetteers, cemetery,
and marriage records.
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Nance
County
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Provides historical, genealogical and
topographical information about Nance County
Nebraska. Includes lists from gazetteers, census,
and marriage records.
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Nebraska
in the Civil War
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An effort to collect and present information about civil
war veterans who lived in Nebraska. It expanded to include any military
material related to the state, and is now coordinated by Gynon Nash.
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NEGenWeb
Project On-Line Library
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Home page for the NEGenWeb On-Line library. A
newer project to produce books, journals,
publications and newspaper articles for the
Web.
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Nebraska
Newspapers
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Past & Current Newspapers in Nebraska and the newspaper extract
files of Nebraska State Historical Society (NSHS). |
"Etc." - Other
Resources
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Informative pamphlets and articles - most
originally published by
NSHS, including the
"Genealogist's Corner" of their current newsletter
HISTORY (all done by
permission).
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Nebraska
Records
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Advisory page on finding records in
Nebraska.
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Nebraska
Photo Album
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Collections of photographs from all over Nebraska; lists of book
illustrations, etc. |
Books etc. produced for the Web
In additon to our county coordination activities, we have
been active in scanning and producing books, pamphlets and
newspaper files for the web. The following are the some of the results
of those efforts.
The
1890 NE Gazetteer
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This is a coordination effort for the state wide
project to produce the Nebraska State Gazetteer,
published in 1890. It has been "in the works"
almost two years. We're approaching the end of
another statewide project, "Who's
Who in Nebraska", 1940.
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Nebraska,
It's Characteristics and Prospects.
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by Prof. James D. Butler, LL.D. 1873.
Promotional pamphlet for settlers to NE. Burlington
& Missouri River R.R. Co. Reprint
by NSHS in 1974.
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Nebraska
and Midwest Genealogical Record
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Journals of the NE Genealogical Society that disbanded during WW
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Platte
County, Nebraska - Past and Present of
(1915)
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First books we scanned, thanks to Mr. Trautwein
of Columbus Library, NE. Object - to reduce the
wear & tear on copies still in existence. Both
volumes done in 30 days! It has been stored on at
least 2 different servers in the past, is now on
RootsWeb. More recent Platte County history by
Margaret Curry (1950) has not been released.
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Compendium
of History, Reminiscence and Biography of Western
Nebraska, 1909
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A book containing biographical sketches of
hundreds of prominent old settlers, citizens of
WESTERN NEBRASKA
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Compendium
of History, Reminiscence and Biography of
Nebraska, 1912
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A companion book to that above covering, mostly, central
and east central Nebraska. In total 1000 pages of biographies. Fully
indexed. Three other volunteers copied, scanned and proofed to make
this book possible.
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Johnson's
History of Nebraska
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The History of Nebraska, by Harrison Johnson,
published in 1880. No biographies. Historical and
topographical information and articles on the
counties and towns in existance at that time.
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Nebraska
Pioneer Reminiscences
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"This Book of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences is
issued by the Daughters of the American Revolution
of Nebraska, and dedicated to the daring,
courageous, and intrepid men and women - the
advance guard of our progress - who, carrying the
torch of civilization, had a vision of the
possibilities which now have become realities."
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The
Journals of William Walker
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From the Proceedings and Collections of The Nebraska State
Historical Society Second Series, Vol. III, The Provisional Government
of Nebraska Territory and The Journals of William Walker.
Have done other volumes of this series since.
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History
of NE, Morton & Watkins
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The History of Nebraska, by J. Sterling Morton
& Albert Watkins, published in 1918. No
biographies. Mainly political and religious
history.
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Some
OLD books are available
because Pam Rietsch purchased them as part of the
MARDOS Collection, for
reproduction on NEGenWeb Project.
Other books appear because the authors supplied
a copyright release (Fullerton's
First 100 Years, Bellwood
Centennial, Funs
of the Pioneers). We have also done a history
book (1880) that belonged to Uncle Vic Schober, and a history
text (1920) used by one of Carole's parents. Have found
little info that relates to our own lines other than census data.
All this is to say - we don't
spend alot of time on our homesite because our
major goal is to get basic texts & extracts
on-line for other amateur genealogists. Find that
many people have things they are willing to share -
so they send stuff to be included in the NEGenWeb
Project Resource Center!
If you are family - you have a
right to complain because we've bugged you for
years with questions, and copied your photos, and
asked you to walk cemeteries with us! We really are
trying to "get all of it together" so you can copy
down that portion that is of interest to you.
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January 2003 - We continue to reproduce old
materials for NEGenWeb Project and for the Mardos
Memorial Library. (Pam Rietsch expects to move her
collection to a different server so the urls will
change when that happens). We are currently
"baby-sitting" some additional Nebraska counties
(have done that in the past as well). Are posting
extracts of old newspapers, etc. Some photo pages
have been added to this website in the past year -
most for collateral lines. Some family obits have
been posted to the Merrick & Nance websites.
All we need is days that are twice as long ...
T&C
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