Nevada Research Tips and Strategies
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Nevada Research Strategies
Below are links to different research strategy pages to help you locate your ancestors in Nevada:
- Finding Nevada Births, Marriages, and Deaths using Guided Research
- Nevada Record Finder
- Nevada Online Genealogy Records
- Step-by-Step Nevada Research, 1880-Present
- Step-by-Step Nevada Research, 1850-1910
- Nevada Descendancy Research
- How to Find Birth Records
- How to Find Marriage Records
- How to Find Death Records
Nevada Research Tips
These tips will help you as you research your ancestors in Nevada:
- Birth information: Statewide registration of births began in 1911 in Nevada. A helpful substitute record to find birth information is a death record. However, date and place of birth on a death record is considered secondary information, as it was not recorded at the time of the birth event. The birth information should be corroborated with other substitute records to improve accuracy.
- Finding Parents: Statewide registration of deaths began in 1911 in Nevada. They often will list the parents of the deceased and their birth information. Search Nevada death records
- Look in all censuses: Always look for your ancestor in every possible census. There are clues regarding immigration, naturalization, and occupation that can lead to other records. Sometimes parents can be found living with their children later in life. Search U.S. Censuses.
Further Nevada Research
- Nevada Research Outline – Original FamilySearch Library research outline; contains many out of date links
- NVGenWeb
- Cyndi's List - Nevada genealogy sites on the internet
- Wyoming Genealogy Trails - collection of transcribed data for the state of Nevada
- Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness - Guide to Ancestry and Family Tree Records for Nevada