Nebraska Archives and Libraries: Difference between revisions

{{Block indent|The Department of Reference Services includes two divisions of particular interest to genealogists—the Library Division and the State Archives. The Library Division houses printed materials, whereas the State Archives maintains Nebraska government records, newspapers, and other historical documents.}}

{{Block indent|The state of [[Nebraska Genealogy|Nebraska]] is actively microfilming records. Most of the state and many of the county records described in this outline are available on microfilm at the Nebraska State Historical Society. They cannot be borrowed by interlibrary loan, but most are available for purchase.}}

{{Block indent|1=A useful guide to records at the State Archives is ''A Guide to the Manuscript Division of the State Archives, Nebraska State Historical Society ''(Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society, 1974); FS Library book {{FSC|250731|title-id|disp=978.2 A3n No. 5; includes a 1983 supplement}}.|2=1}}

{{Block indent|The Nebraska State Historical Society has also published a series of helpful leaflets describing genealogical sources in Nebraska. You can write to the society for copies.}}

{{Block indent|The collection consists of books, recordings, photographs, and unpublished written materials relating to the people of Danish extraction in North America.}}

{{Block indent|To learn more about the history and record-keeping systems of Nebraska counties, use the seven inventories of county archives published by the Historical Records Survey around 1940. The FamilySearch Library has copies of these.}}

{{Block indent|This [http://usgenweb.org/ site] is a cooperative effort by many volunteers to list genealogical databases, libraries, bulletin boards, and other resources available on the Internet for each county, state, and country.}}

{{Block indent|[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ RootsWeb] is a useful list of sites and resources. Includes a large, regularly updated research coordination list.}}

{{Block indent|The FamilySearch Library and FamilySearch centers have access to [https://familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] on the Internet. This is a good place to begin your research. <!--{12058658402580} -->}}