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Search the online index to over 185,806 deaths in the state of Nebraska between 1956-1968, or browse the digitized images of the approximately 1.4 million entries for the years 1904-1955 -- free!
- Here’s Why We Did It
- And Here’s How We Did It
- All About The Nebraska Death Index, Part I: The 1904-1955 Books
- All About The Nebraska Death Index, Part II: The 1956-1968 Database
Earlier this year, one of our board members was noodling around with some Nebraska genealogical research, and he was surprised to realize that there was no source to search for Nebraska deaths. Statewide vital records registration began in Nebraska in late 1904, so their Department of Health certainly had records going back to the early 20th centur...
In May 2019, citing Nebraska’s Public Records Law, Reclaim The Records made a request for “a copy of the Nebraska Death Index and/or finding aid to deaths, from its onset to 1968”. You can read the whole request on our website (PDF), if you want, because we like making all our correspondence and court cases public. Nebraska’s law requires agencies ...
Nebraska DHSS told us that the section of the death index covering 1904-1955 was only available in a printed series of eleven oversize books, each about 800 pages in length. This data must have been originally typed into some long-antiquated database to result in such a product, but unfortunately, the only format that had survived to 2019 were the ...
Meanwhile, the index for Nebraska deaths from 1956-1968 was already in a text database format. (Hooray!) The Department of Health warned us that the database quality was not perfect, but they said that they could either send us the data as-is for about $33 or that we could have the state verify and clean up all the data for an additional $194,000, ...
A Genealogy Guide for Finding Obituaries, Cemetery Burials and Death Records. Nebraska Death Records Indexes. Nebraska, Index to Deaths, 1904-1968 at Ancestry/requires payment. Nebraska Death Index, 1904-1968 searchable by name from 1956-1968; browsable images from 1904-1955; from Reclaim the Records/free.
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This collection contains death records from Nebraska, United States from the year 1956 onwards. Records typically contain the full name of the deceased, date and county of death, the names of the parents, and a state file number.
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Oct 14, 2020 · The Nebraska Death Index A free searchable database of 185,806 deaths in the state of Nebraska between 1956-1968, and free digitized images of the approximately 1.4 million entries in the death index...
