Brown County NEGenWeb Project

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Welcome to the Brown County NEGenWeb Project page.




Come on in and sit a spell. Browse our many stories and pages.


Welcome from Brown County!! We are Doris Jones-Harris your Coordinator for Brown County, Nebraska, and will try to provide a valuable resource for researching your family tree. Our roots in Brown County go back to1892 when our great grandparents moved to Brown County. We are very proud to help preserve our county and family histories on this page.
This is a great place to find and connect with your family history.

Would you like to contact us? Maybe you have some information, pictures, family history, etc you would like to see on this site? Maybe you would like to volunteer for typing, lookups, reading a cemetery? No information is too small!!! Maybe you just want to drop us a line ....tell us corrections that need to be made. Whatever the reason, we would love to hear from you! Join with others "searching for their roots" in Brown County.

We are very proud of our history and the part that our pioneers played in the settling of this great county during the early pioneer years and settlement of the frontier. We hope that you will like what we have done so far with our site and would like suggestions from you on what you would like to see here. If you know of other links for our guest to these pages, please let us know. If you have any questions or comments, pleae feel free to contact us. Thank you.



We would like to think we are generous people, so if you find something you would like to use, please contact:
County Coordinator


Written Contributions are always welcome.
If you own any genealogical or historical items that you feel would benefit researchers in Brown County, and you would like to see them listed here, just e-mail me. We would also be happy to add a link to your family history homepage on the internet with a Brown County surname connection, but we cannot store GEDCOMs on this server. Good Luck in your quest for your family roots.If you would like to volunteer to host a county in Nebraska, please contact the Contact the State Coordinator

This site is under construction,so check back often for new updates and information
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BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY



"The NEGenWeb/USGenWeb Project"
Welcome to the NEGenWeb/USGenWeb Project, which is supported by the efforts of volunteers all across the country to help you access genealogical materials on the Internet. The system is organized by states and counties with each county having a coordinator responsible for maintaining a site of resources which are available for that county. You will also find files of genealogy records, organized by state and county.

  • Lakeland Sod High School-Monument Courtesy of Marilyn Calver and the Ainsworth Star Journal

  • Lakeland Sod High School History Courtesy of Marilyn Calver. Also a story by Mrs. Elmer Holm about the difficulties during the first years.

  • Brown County School Districts

    School Districts from thru out Brown County with the names of teachers and yrs that they taught there.
    Also looking for pictures of Teachers and students who attended these schools.
    If you have any pictures or info, please contact the Brown county coordinator.


  • Railroad Town Story contributed by Angela DeBold and Heritage House Museum

  • Long Pine Power And Light - Report contributed by Eugene A. Upstill to Marilyn Calver, local historian, which she contributed to us for use on this page.

  • Coming Sooon!!!! The Drums. A story about Fred M. Enders.

  • The Fitzgerald Farm Flood by Ruth Blundell.

  • Homestead Act and Congrssional Acts Contributed by Marilyn Calver, local historian.

  • Re-Union of Old Soldiers-1892 Contributed by Marilyn Calver, local historian.


  • Re-Union of Old Soldiers-1900 Contributed by Marilyn Calver, local historian.


  • A Few Facts worth knowing about Brown County Contributed by Marilyn Calver, local historian.




  • Marriages Courtesy of Phyllis Quinn.



    Brown County Cemetery Records


     
  • Brown County Cemetery Listings Courtesy of Doris Jones-Harris. Check back often as we are adding new names monthly.

  • Ainsworth High School Cornerstone Laying Parade on 09-29-1922. Courtesy of Glen Webster

  • Captain James Edward Ainsworth, civil engineer, who was in charge of building train line, Ainsworth, Ne named after him. Story written by Brown County Historian, Marilyn A. Calver,

  • EARLY HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY
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  • Early History of Brown County Story written by Brown County Historian, Marilyn A. Calver.

  • Historical Markers of Brown County story written by local historian, Marilyn A. Calver.

  • Nannie J. Osborne, Early Brown County pioneer woman and benefactor Story written by Brown County Historian, Marilyn A. Calver.

  • Ed T. Cook, early pioneer rancher Story written by local Brown County historian, Marilyn A. Calver.


  • Nebraska's First Black Cowboy Story is compiled information from Pat Ash, Nebraska coordinator for Blain and Loup counties, and an abstract of Blaine History Book and Settlement of Loup County


    Thank you for your interest!

    If you have problems, please contact the Brown county coordinator.

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