Thayer County Sources


Thayer County Genealogical Society
Box 388
Belvidere, NE 68315
Newsletter - "Diggin for Roots"
Single memberships are available for $5.00, and Couple for $7.50.

The Thayer County Genealogical Society has old newspapers for Bruning, Carleton, Chester, Davenport and Hebron, along with census records, family files, photographs, cemetery indexes, etc.

Liz Henning shared this information on the Hebron cemeteries:
Two of the three cemeteries in Hebron now have available, on site, an index of burial plots. (Catholic Cemetery does not.) Street signs have been erected, and a book at the entrance to the cemetery lists where to find a grave. All persons interred are listed.

Tucker Memorial Library
P.O. Box 184
Alexandria, NE 68303

Tucker memorial library has copies of the Alexandria Argus dating from early 1900's-1967. The following histories may also be purchased by writing the library.

The History of Alexandria
125 Years (Including a special section on Conner's Park)
$5.00 + $1.00 postage = $6.00

Pictoral History of Alexandria Nebraska
by Virginia Griffin Priefert (1990)
$2.00 + $1.00 postage = $3.00

School District 10 (Located just inside Jefferson County)
$2.50 + $1.00 postage = $3.50

Deshler Public Library
P.O. Box 520
Deshler, NE 68340

The Deshler Public Library has the following newspapers on microfilm.
Deshler Citizen - Nov. 11, 1895 thru March 1897
Deshler Rustler - June 23, 1899 thru 1995

Hebron Public Library
146 N 4th
Hebron, NE 68370
(402) 768-6701

County Clerk
Thayer County Courthouse
Hebron, NE 68370

Register of deeds
Thayer County Courthouse
Hebron, NE 68370

Clerk of the District Court
Thayer County Courthouse
Hebron, NE 68370

County Supt. of Schools
Thayer County Courthouse
Hebron, NE 68370
School Censuses back to 1898, with the exception of district #6 just west of Alexandria, which dates back to 1872.

Nebraska Sources

Vital Records
PO Box 95007
Lincoln, NE 68509-5007
(402) 471-2871

Nebraska State Genealogical Society
PO Box 5608

Lincoln, NE 68505-0608
NSGS Publications Catalog
(Link to catalog found on the NEGenWeb Site)

Nebraska State Historical Society
PO Box 82554
Lincoln, NE 68501-9775
(402) 471-3270


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