Research Resources
Alliance Public Library
The Alliance Public Library serves the Alliance and Box Butte County area with a collection of more than 50,000 print, audio, video, historical, and multimedia materials. Genealogists and local history researchers can search the online catalog for books and historical resources. Address: 1750 Sweetwater Avenue, Alliance, NE 69301. Phone: (308) 762-1387.
Antelope County Historical Society
The Antelope County Historical Society collects, preserves, and shares the history of Antelope County, Nebraska, through museum exhibits, historic buildings, archival collections, and educational programs. Genealogists and local history researchers will find document and photograph collections that include genealogical records, historic newspapers, maps, court records, and high school yearbooks. Address: 410 L Street, Neligh, NE 68756. Phone: (402) 887-5010.
Auburn Memorial Library
The Auburn Memorial Library serves the Auburn and Nemaha County community with a collection of books, digital resources, and other library materials. Visitors can search the online catalog, borrow eBooks, audiobooks, and digital magazines through Libby, and participate in library programs and events. Address: 1810 Courthouse Avenue, Auburn, NE 68305. Phone: (402) 274-4023.
Boone-Nance County Genealogical Society
The Boone-Nance County Genealogical Society promotes the study and preservation of family history and local history in Boone and Nance Counties, Nebraska. The society serves researchers with an interest in the people, families, and communities of the region. Address: P.O. Box 231, Belgrade, NE 68623.
Buffalo County Historical Society
The Buffalo County Historical Society preserves and shares the history of Buffalo County through the Trails & Rails Museum, archival collections, exhibits, educational programs, and research services. Genealogists and local history researchers can explore photographs, manuscripts, newspapers, family files, and other historical records documenting Buffalo County and central Nebraska. Address: 710 W. 11th Street, Kearney, NE 68845. Phone: (308) 234-3041.
Cass County Historical Society
The Cass County Historical Society preserves and shares the history of Cass County through the Cass County Historical Society Museum, historic structures, exhibits, educational programs, and research resources. Museum exhibits document the county's history from its opening for settlement in 1854 through the development of transportation, agriculture, schools, businesses, and community life. The society also maintains the Joseph and Mary Cook Log Cabin, the Rock Bluffs one-room schoolhouse, a historic railroad caboose, and a replica of Lewis and Clark's pirogue. Address: 646 Main Street, Plattsmouth, NE 68048. Phone: (402) 296-4770.
Douglas County (Nebraska) Historical Society
The Douglas County Historical Society preserves and shares the history of Omaha and Douglas County, Nebraska, through its museums, archives, educational programs, and research services. Researchers can access the Society's Library & Archives Center, online catalog, genealogy services, and historical collections, including newspapers, books, government records, photographs, and clipping files documenting the history of Omaha and Douglas County. Address: 5730 N. 30th Street, Building #11B, Omaha, NE 68111. Phone: (402) 455-9990.
Eastern Nebraska Genealogical Society
The Eastern Nebraska Genealogical Society promotes genealogy and family history research in eastern Nebraska. The society maintains a genealogy library at the May Museum in Fremont, publishes the Roots & Leaves quarterly, and provides access to cemetery, marriage, naturalization, and other records for Dodge, Colfax, Cuming, Saunders, and Washington Counties, with limited Butler County resources. Address: P.O. Box 541, Fremont, NE 68026. Phone: (402) 721-4515.
Elkhorn Valley Genealogical Society
The Elkhorn Valley Genealogical Society promotes genealogy and family history research in northeast Nebraska. The society maintains a genealogy collection at the John A. Stahl Library in West Point, offers educational programs and research assistance, and serves Cuming County and the surrounding Elkhorn Valley region. Address: John A. Stahl Library, 330 N. Colfax, West Point, NE 68788. Phone (John A. Stahl Library): (402) 372-3831.
Fort Kearny Genealogical Society
The Fort Kearny Genealogical Society promotes genealogy and family history research in Buffalo County and central Nebraska. The society maintains a non-circulating genealogy library on the second floor of the Kearney Public Library, publishes the Buffalo Chip quarterly, and offers research services. Its collections include cemetery records, school records, census and Soundex records, newspapers, land patents, marriage records, delayed birth records, naturalizations, and probate records. Address: P.O. Box 22, Kearney, NE 68848. Email: ftkrnygensoc@gmail.com.