Nebraska Research Tips and Strategies
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Nebraska Research Strategies
Below are links to different research strategy pages to help you locate your ancestors in Nebraska:
- Finding Nebraska Births, Marriages, and Deaths using Guided Research
- Nebraska Record Finder
- Nebraska Online Genealogy Records
- Step-by-Step Nebraska Research, 1880-Present
- Step-by-Step Nebraska Research, 1850-1910
- Nebraska Descendancy Research
- How to Find Birth Records
- How to Find Marriage Records
- How to Find Death Records
Nebraska Research Tips
These tips will help you as you research your ancestors in Nebraska:
- Birth information: Statewide registration of births began in 1904 and was generally complied with by 1920. 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: The State of Nebraska began recording deaths in 1904. They often will list the parents of the deceased and their birth information. Search Nebraska 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 Nebraska Research
- Nebraska Family History Library Research Outline
- Cyndi's List - Nebraska genealogy sites on the internet
- Nebraska Genealogy Trails - collection of transcribed data for the state of Nebraska
- Access Genealogy – Genealogy guide for Nebraska
- Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness - Guide to Ancestry and Family Tree Records for Nebraska