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

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.

Nebraska is made up of 93 counties: Counties having data posted will be Dark Blue.  Those with only the starter page will be Light Blue.   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             Counties updated for the month of: June 2008   Clay Thayer Hall Gospher Gage Brown York Lincoln Seward Douglas Johnson Lancaster Cass Dixon Hamilton Saunders         Featured County of the Month  Clay   York       View 2008 Updates View 2007 Updates     Look-Ups    County Map Census Data Vital Statistics Information  Misc. Obituaries  ** Origin of Nebraska    Facts and Trivia   1893 County Fairs Westward Highways  A Land Of Milk And Honey  Nebraska Counties Old Postcards  Capital Building  Early Earthquakes   Here and There, Part I     Here and There, Part II The Beginnings of Nebraska Historical Society  The Nebraska State Historical Society News Article Public Land Sales in the Territory of Nebraska    Nebraska Governors News and Tidbits Nebraskan Indians   Omahas Pawnee War Wounded Knee 1823 Trading Expedition Wife of Winnabago Chief Wounded Knee - 1972 Indian Problems   Unearthed Medal Pawnee Indians Attacked    Military   Fort Atkinson Medal of Honor Recipients Nebraska In The Civil War                      News Across Nebraska Miscellaneous County News Run On Banks Discovery of Shredded Wheat Gasoline War 1923 The Prairies Are Ablaze All Around Nebraska                 **Obituaries with specific county ties have been moved tothe appropriate county name.   My name is Frances and I am the volunteer host for this Nebraska State Website.   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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