State of Nebraska      The Cornhusker State     Part of the family of Genealogy Trails   37th State - Admission to statehood - March 1, 1867

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Nebraska Homestead--Sod House--Taken about 1900 near Arnold, Neb. Photo donated by:  Anna Newell Nebraska was part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.  Before the 1860s most pioneers passed through Nebraska along the Platte River Valley on their way to California and Oregon.  During the 1860s, homesteaders poured into Nebraska to claim free land grants; many of the first farm settlers built their homes out of sod because trees were so sparse.  The major factor in organizing the territory was the building of the Pacific Railroad.    Nebraska became the 37th state in 1867, shortly after the American Civil War.  At that time the capital was moved from Omaha to Lancaster, later renamed Lincoln after the recently assassinated President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.  The population in 1860 was 28,841, the  estimated population for 2005 was 1,758,787.    The five largest ancestry groups in Nebraska are German, Irish, English, Swedish and Czech.    Nebraska gets its name from a  Native American (Oto) word meaning "flat water", after the Platte River that flows through the state.

Nebraska is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa and Missouri to the east, across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwest; and Wyoming to the west.   Please Report any Broken Links, Thank you   Sorry, unable to do personal research. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks.   All data we come across will be added to this site.   We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site.

Nebraska is made up of 93 counties:   Adams Antelope Arthur Banner Blaine Boone Box Butte Boyd Brown Buffalo Burt Butler Cass Cedar Chase Cherry Cheyenne Clay Colfax Cuming Custer Dakota Dawes Dawson Deuel Dixon Dodge Douglas Dundy Fillmore Franklin Frontier Furnas Gage Garden Garfield Gosper Grant Greeley Hall Hamilton Harlan Hayes Hitchcock Holt Hooker Howard Jefferson Johnson Kearney Keith Keya Paha Kimball Knox Lancaster Lincoln Logan Loup Madison McPherson Merrick Morrill Nance Nemaha Nuckolls Otoe Pawnee Perkins Phelps Pierce Platte Polk Red Willow Richardson Rock Saline Sarpy Saunders Scotts Bluff Seward Sheridan Sherman Sioux Stanton Thayer Thomas Thurston Valley Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler York                     Updates for the Month of April: Douglas Cass Furnas Clay Johnson Otoe Nemaha Saunders           Submit Headstone Inscription       Submit Obituary         Search Nebraska Counties As Well As All States and Counties For Free Data   Provided by Genealogy Trails Pick a State Site To Search Entire Site AL AK AR AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA HI IA ID IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VA VT WA WI WV WY powered by FreeFind         View 2013 Updates   Updates for Hosted Counties        Dundy Jefferson Loup Greeley  Custer Sarpy Gage       Items Of Interest   State Data    Nebraskan Indians     Military     Historical Society & Assoc.   Historical Data     Pioneers Biographies      Churches State Map by Counties Obituaries    Look-Ups Land     Photo Gallery Education Nebraskan Women    Queries News Across Nebraska County Hosts Facts and Trivia Census Data Nebraska Businesses   Soc. Death Index        Update Archives Guide To Public Vital Statistic Records In Nebraska 1941          Any contributions of data are greatly appreciated.  To make our site grow we need your input. To contribute data to this site, please send it to Frances.

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