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Online Resources

• See United States Newspapers for more databases
• 1800-Current Nebraska, U.S., Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index, 1800's-current at Ancestry — index & images ($)
• 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)
• Chronicling America Digitized Newspapers
• Genealogy Bank Nebraska Newspaper Archives (1854–1983), index
• Names and Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Nebraska) at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
• Nebraska Newspapers
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• Nebraska Online Historical Newspapers
• Nebraska State Historical Society Newspaper Collection
• NewspaperArchive ($)
• NewspaperArchive ($)
• GenealogyBank ($) has over 30 Nebraska newspaper collections.
• Chronicling America has some historical issues for the state of Nebraska online.

Resources for Nebraska Newspapers

A guide to help you locate Nebraska newspapers is:

• Diffendal, Anne P. A Guide to the Newspaper Collection of the State Archives, Nebraska State Historical Society. Lincoln, Nebraska: Nebraska State Historical Society, 1977. (FS Library film 1036134 item 7).

Libraries and Archives

The Nebraska State Historical Society has over 20,000 microfilms of Nebraska newspapers. You can purchase copies of most of these microfilms from the society. Many of the newspapers have been indexed in the Newspaper and Information Index available at the society, and online at Nebraska Newspaper Indexes. You can get a list of the indexed newspapers by writing to the society and asking for "Reference Leaflet No. 4, Newspaper Indexes."

The FamilySearch Library (FS Library)

The FamilySearch Library collects indexes and transcripts of newspaper records and obituaries but does not have copies of Nebraska newspapers.

Newspaper Directory

The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present is a national directory from the Library of Congress of over 140,000 newspaper titles. The directory provides a list of libraries from around the country that have the newspapers in their collections.

Indexes

• Nebraska Newspaper Abstracts: A Computer Index to Names and Events Abstracted from Selected Nebraska Newspapers. Alliance, Nebraska: Nebraska State Genealogical Society, 1983—. (FS Catalog book 978.2 B32n.) This series now has birth, marriage and other information through 1919.

• Sittler, Melvin. Sittler Index of Surnames for Which Information Has Been Abstracted from the [Lincoln] Nebraska State Journal, May 1873-December 31, 1899. Five Volumes. Lincoln, Nebraska: The Lincoln-Lancaster County Genealogical Society, 1983-84. (FS Catalog book 978.2293 D22si; Volumes 1-4 on fiche 6093604-7, Volume 5 on fiche 6117319.) Volume 5 has abstracts for 1900.