Omaha and Nebraska Historical Microfilm

These microfilm are located at the Genealogy & Local History Room.

Cemetery Records

  • Calvary: Alphabetical list of burial cards.
    • Dates: Unknown - 9/17/1980
  • Holy Sepulchre: Alphabetical list of burial cards
    • Dates: Unknown - 9/17/1980
  • Laurel Hill: Alphabetical list of burial cards.
    • Dates: Unknown
  • Prospect Hill: Index of lot owners, interment register, miscellaneous disinterment permits, etc.
  • Mary’s: Alphabetical list of burial cards.
    • Dates: Unknown - 9/17/1980
  • Mary’s, St. Mary Magdalene, Holy Sepulchre: Interment registers and other miscellanea.

Church Records

(shelved in Nebraska Reference)

  • Clifton Hill Presbyterian (Omaha)
    • NEB REF 285.1782254 Clifton (1894 -1972, 1 roll)
  • First Central Congregational (Omaha)
    • NEB REF 285.8782254 First (1856-1977, 6 rolls)
    • These reels include the following merged congregations:
      • First Evangelical and Reformed (roll 6)
      • First United Church of Christ (roll 6)
      • St. Mary’s Ave. Congregational (roll 5)
  • First Presbyterian (Bellevue)
    • NEB REF 285.1782256 First (1850-1939, 1 roll)
  • Lowe Ave. United Presbyterian Church (Omaha)
    • NEB REF 285.1782254 Lowe (1887-1971, 2 rolls)
  • Nebraska Baptist State Convention
    • NEB REF 286.109782 Nebraska (1860-1956, 3 rolls)
  • Barnabas Episcopal (Omaha)
    • NEB REF 283.782254 St. Barn (1868-1979, 14 rolls)
  • Trinity Cathedral (Episcopal, Omaha)
    • NEB REF 283.782254 Trinity (1857-1973, 12 rolls)

City Directories

  • Beatrice 1904-35
  • Council Bluffs 1866-1977
  • Fremont 1903-36
  • Hastings 1891-99; 1903-1915; 1917-1926; 1928-1935
  • Kearney 1904-33
  • Norfolk 1911-1920; 1922-1935
  • Omaha 1866-1979 (print copies: 1866-Current; 3rd floor service desk)

Military Records

  • G.A.R. Index to Nebraska Members
  • Nebraska Adjutant General G.A.R., Civil War veterans buried in NE.
  • Nebraska Adjutant General G.A.R., Dept. of Nebraska, 1911, 4 vols.
  • Nebraska Adjutant General World War I service records.
  • Spanish American War Service cards.
  • Volunteer Union Soldiers Index of service records of miscellaneous Nebraska organizations.

Miscellaneous

  • Douglas County Birth Registers (3 reels: Box 1, 2, 2A)
    • NEB REF 929.3782254 Douglas
    • Dates: 1874-1896; 1896-1907; 1892-1910
  • Douglas County Death Registers (2 reels: Box 3 & 4)
    • NEB REF 929.3782254 Douglas
    • Douglas County 1873-1904
    • South Omaha Dec 1895-July 1905
    • City of Omaha 1895-1915
  • Douglas County Probate (2 reels)
    • NEB REF 929.3782254 Douglas Probate
    • Fee Books 1854-1886; 1868-1947
  • Federal Non-Population Decennial Census
    • Nebraska schedules 1860-1880
  • Naturalizations Index
    • Nebraska and 63 Iowa counties, 1906 and prior
  • State Department Territorial Papers (1 reel)
    • Nebraska 1854-1867, NEB REF 978.2 United
  • Wagon Roads
    • Sec. Interior records, 1857-1887, NEB REF 978 United
  • Ward Maps of U.S. Cities and Enumeration District Descriptions
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