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Welcome To The NEGenWeb Project!


The NEGenWeb Project is a collection of state and county sites offered to you by the many volunteers who are dedicated to helping promote free genealogical research in Nebraska. Follow the links to the left to visit the County Sites List, the Nebraska Resource Center where you will find more information on researching in Nebraska, the Nebraska OnLine Library with many books, maps and publications that have been transcribed for the web. Don't forget the Basic Helps section of the Resource Center for help in finding out how to find Nebraska Records (State vitals, census, etc.). Although it is not 'required', our State Resource Center and many of our County sites include transcription projects to help in your research. Please take the time to find out just what may or may not be available online on our State and County sites.

You can go to our individual counties by using the County Sites List which include the county seat and the date the county was formed plus any counties that are adoptable, or by the Clickable Map.


Nebraska was the 37th state admitted to the Union on March 1st, 1867, and is the geographical center of the United States.
Its neighbors are Kansas to the south, Iowa to the East, Missouri to the southeast, Colorado to the southwest, and South Dakota to the North. Nebraska has the only one house legislature in the United States, the unicameral.
The origin of the name Nebraska comes from an Oto word meaning "flat water".
Arbor Day was founded in Nebraska City by J Sterling Morton in 1872.

Some of the many attractions in Nebraska include The Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo, Chimney Rock, Carhenge (a replica of Stonehenge fashioned from cars) and the Strategic Air And Space Museum near Ashland, Nebraska.

If you would like to volunteer to host one of the orphaned counties or notice anything incorrect in any of the NeGenWeb pages, please contact the State Coordinator or Assistant Coordinator whose emails are listed to the right.

If you have any questions or issues with any of the NeGenWeb counties, please email the coordinator for that particular county.

Good luck with your research!!

In memory of Pam Rietsch (1948-2020) whose contributions to Nebraska genealogy were (and still are) vast and invaluable.

These counties are available for adoption: Boone - Clay - Dawson - Douglas - Garden - Garfield - Gosper - Grant - Greeley - Hamilton - Holt - Hooker - Jefferson - Keith - Kimball - Merrick - Nance - Perkins - Sherman - Thayer - Thomas - Thurston - Valley - Wayne

State Coordinator, David Gochenour

Contact the State Coordinator

Assistant State Coordinator, Linda Ziemann
Contact the Assistant State Coordinator

Thank you to those who helped build the NEGenWeb Project into what it is today, including Connie Snyder, Bill Oliver, and Ted and Carole Miller.

Copyright 2020/2022 by David Gochenour for the NEGenWeb Project