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Nevada Birth, Marriage, & Death Records
Nevada Birth Indexes & Birth Records
- US – United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images
- Nevada – Nevada County Birth and Death Records, 1871-1992, index & images
- Nevada – Guide to public vital statistics records in Nevada
- Nevada – Inventory of territorial documents, 1860-1863
- Nevada – Nevada mid-wife records of Katie Hoskins
- Nevada – Birth notices in some Nevada newspapers, 1961-1968
- Nevada – Nevada DAR Genealogical Records Committee report : Nevada cemetery, family history, marriage & Bible records
- Nevada – Nevada historical research miscellaneous history
Nevada Marriage Indexes & Marriage Records
- US – United States, GenealogyBank Historic Newspaper Marriages, 1815-2011, index links to images
- US – United States Western States Marriage Index, index
- US – United States Marriages, 1733-1990, index
- Nevada – Nevada County Marriages, 1862-1993, index & images
- Nevada – Nevada Marriage Index, 1956-2005, index
- Nevada – Index to marriage licenses and marriage notices in miscellaneous Nevada newspapers, 1906-1968
- Nevada – Guide to public vital statistics records in Nevada
- Nevada – Inventory of territorial documents, 1860-1863
- Nevada – California/Nevada historical research, marriage records/notices, ca. 1847-1910
- Nevada – Marriage licenses and marriage notices in miscellaneous Nevada newspapers, 1906-1968
- Nevada – Nevada State Journal: marriages, 1969-1970
- Nevada – Nevada, County marriages, 1862-1993
- Nevada – Marriage licenses, 1886-1951
- Nevada – Nevada DAR Genealogical Records Committee report: Nevada cemetery, family history, marriage & Bible records
- Nevada – Nevada historical research miscellaneous history
Nevada Death Indexes & Death Records
- US – United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968, index & images
- US – United States Social Security Death Index, index
- US – United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991, index
- Nevada – Nevada County Birth and Death Records, 1871-1992, index & images
- Nevada – Guide to public vital statistics records in Nevada
- Nevada – Inventory of territorial documents, 1860-1863
- Nevada – Nevada DAR Genealogical Records Committee report : Nevada cemetery, family history, marriage & Bible records
- Nevada – Nevada historical research miscellaneous history
Cemeteries
- US – United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969, index links to images
- US – United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
- US – United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images
- US – United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
- US – BillionGraves Index, index links to images
- US – Find A Grave Index, index links to images
- Nevada – Bible and cemetery records of Nevada
- Nevada – Cemetery records of Nevada
- Nevada – Graves registration records : G.A.R. and Spanish-American War veterans buried in Nevada
- Nevada – Miscellaneous genealogical records
- Nevada – Nevada cemetery records
- Nevada – Nevada DAR Genealogical Records Committee report : Nevada cemetery, family history, marriage & Bible records
- Nevada – Some Nevada cemetery tombstone inscriptions
Obituaries
- US – Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014, index links to images
- US – United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
- US – United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011, index links to images
- US – United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014, index & images
- Nevada – California/Nevada historical research, newspaper death notices, 1863-1930
- Nevada – Nevada death records from various sources
- Nevada – Nevada obituaries, 1996-2014
- Nevada – Western states Deseret News deaths (card file) 1970
- Nevada – Obituary index file to the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News as of 31 December 1970
- Pahrump – Pahrump, Nevada Genealogical Society obits 1970-2009
Wills & Probate
Nevada Residence Records
Census
- 1848-1970 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
- 1860 – United States Census, 1860, index & images
- 1861 – Nevada Territory manuscript census, 1861-1864 and Nevada state manuscript census for Washoe County, 1875
- 1862 – Nevada Territory manuscript census, 1861-1864 and Nevada state manuscript census for Washoe County, 1875
- 1870 – [1860 census Minnesota-Lewis County, Missouri marriages]
- 1870 – Nevada, 1870 federal census : population schedules
- 1870 – United States Census, 1870, index & images
- 1875 – 1875 Nevada state census by county
- 1875 – Census of the inhabitants of the State of Nevada, 1875
- 1875 – Census of the inhabitants of the State of Nevada, 1875 : Appendix to Journals of Senate and Assembly of the Eighth Session of the Legislature of the State of Nevada (v. 2-3)
- 1875 – Persons living in Nevada who were born in New Jersey, extracted from Nevada state census, 1875
- 1880 – Nevada, 1880 federal census : soundex and population schedules
- 1880 – United States Census, 1880, index & images
- 1885-1940 – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
- 1890 – United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images
- 1900 – Nevada, 1900 federal census : soundex and population schedules
- 1900 – United States Census, 1900, index & images
- 1900-1940 – United States Enumeration District Maps for the Twelfth through the Sixteenth US Censuses, 1900-1940
- 1908-1910 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
- 1909-1924 – Indian census rolls, Fallon, 1909-1924
- 1910 – Nevada, 1910 federal census : population schedules
- 1910 – United States Census, 1910, index & images
- 1910-1911 – Census for Kaibab Paiute Indians at the Kaibab Paiute Reserveration, Moccansin, Ariziona, 1910-1911 and Moapa River Reservation, Nevada
- 1910-1923 – Indian census rolls, Fort McDermitt, 1910-1923
- 1920 – Nevada, 1920 federal census : soundex and population schedules
- 1920 – United States Census, 1920, index & images
- 1930 – Nevada, 1930 federal census : population schedules ; NARA microfilm publication T626
- 1930 – United States Census, 1930, index & images
- 1940 – Nevada, 1940 population census : population schedules
- 1940 – United States Census, 1940, index & images
Colonization
Directories
- First directory of Nevada Territory : containing the names of residents in the principal towns, a historical sketch
- Handbook almanac for the Pacific states : an official register and business directory
- Nevada state gazetteer and business directory, 1907-08
- Pacific Coast business directory, 1867
- The Pacific Coast directory : giving name, business, and address of business and professional men of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, and New Mexico together with sketches of the different towns, giving location, population, etc.
- Reproduction of Thompson and West’s “History of Nevada, 1881” : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers
Emigration/Immigration/Migration
- Persons living in Nevada who were born in New Jersey, extracted from Nevada state census, 1875
- United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index
- United States Border Crossings from Mexico to United States, 1903-1957, index
Land & Property
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, land, court)
- United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955
- United States Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, 1862-1874
- United States, Cancelled, Relinquished, or Rejected Land Entry Case Files, 1861-1932
- United States, Homestead Final Certificates, 1863-1909
- United States, Freedmen’s Branch Records, 1872-1878
- In the District Court of the United States in and for the District of Nevada : in equity docket no. A3, The United States of America, plaintiff, vs. Orr Water Ditch Company, et al. defendants
- Inventory of territorial documents, 1860-1863
Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers
- Historical diagram of New Mexico
- LDS place names gazetteer
- Nevada geographic names information system alphabetical list
- Directory of southern Nevada place names
- First directory of Nevada Territory : containing the names of residents in the principal towns, a historical sketch
- Nevada geographic names information system alphabetical list
- Nevada state gazetteer and business directory, 1907-08
Passports
- United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, index & images
Taxation
Nevada Daily Life Records
Alumni, Schools, & Yearbooks
Bible Records
Bibliography
- The Oral History Project of the University of Nevada, Reno, Library : a bibliography
- Sources for Nevada history in the Church Archives, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Biography
- Brief historical sketches of Nevada residents, early 1900’s
- Capitol’s state who’s who combined with who’s who for the Western states : July, 1953 issue
- History of Nevada : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers
- A history of the state of Nevada : its resources and people
- Military records
- Mister Speaker to Madam Speaker : a compendium of biographies of the speakers of the Nevada Assembly : including territorial legislature through 150th anniversary of statehood
- Nevada : a narrative of the conquest of a frontier land comprising the story of her people from the dawn of history to the present time…
- Nevada’s golden stars : a memorial volume designed as a gift from the state of Nevada to the relatives of those Nevada heroes who died in the World War
- Nevada’s golden stars : a memorial volume designed as a gift from the state of Nevada to the relatives of those Nevada heroes who died in the World War
- Reproduction of Thompson and West’s “History of Nevada, 1881” : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers
- Sketches of the inter-mountain states : together with biographies of many prominent and progressive citizens who have helped in the development and history-making of this marvelous region, 1847, 1909, Utah, Idaho, Nevada.
- Sketches of the inter-mountain states : together with biographies of many prominent and progressive citizens who have helped in the development and history-making of this marvelous region, 1847, 1909, Utah, Idaho, Nevada.
- Who’s who in Nevada : brief sketches of men who are making history in the Sagebrush State
- Who’s who in Nevada : brief sketches of men who are making history in the Sagebrush state
- Master index to pioneer families, information collected in 1964 to celebrate Nevada’s centennial : pioneer families are included in each Nevada county history
- Mormons and their neighbors : an index to over 75,000 biographical sketches from 1820 to the present
Business Records & Commerce
Centennial Celebrations
- Master index to pioneer families, information collected in 1964 to celebrate Nevada’s centennial : pioneer families are included in each Nevada county history
- Nevada : official centennial magazine
Church
- Church records (California & Nevada), 1863-1878
- Inventory of the church archives of Nevada, Protestant Episcopal Church
- Journal of Reverend William Hiram Leflar Marshall, 1910-1956
- Nevada historical research miscellaneous history
- Inventory of the church archives of Nevada, Roman Catholic Church
- The Mormons in Nevada
Description & Travel
Employees, Officials, & Occupations
- United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
- United States National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel Files, 1954-1970, index
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
Ethnic Records
African American Records
- US – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American)
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images (African American, rations, relief, slavery, slave owners)
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, military, school, misc)
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, land, court)
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, school, legal)
Japanese American Records
- United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index
- United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images
Native American Records
- United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images
- United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
- United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
- United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
- Anthropology of the Numa : John Wesley Powell’s manuscripts on the Numic peoples of western North America, 1868-1880
- Anthropology of the Numa : John Wesley Powell’s manuscripts on the Numic peoples of western North America, 1868-1880
- Census for Kaibab Paiute Indians at the Kaibab Paiute Reserveration, Moccansin, Ariziona, 1910-1911 and Moapa River Reservation, Nevada
- Indian census rolls, Bishop Agency, 1916-1926
- Indian census rolls, Carson, 1909-1939
- Indian census rolls, Fallon, 1909-1924
- Indian census rolls, Fort McDermitt, 1910-1923
- Record of employees, 1883-1915
- Record of employees, 1909-1926
- Records of the Nevada Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1869-1870
- Records of the Utah Superintendency of Indian affairs, 1853-1870
- Sanitary record of sick & etc., 1897-1910
- Student records, 1946-1952
- Early Nevada Indians
- Indians of the lower plateau
Minorities
Genealogy
- Nevada DAR Genealogical Records Committee report : Nevada cemetery, family history, marriate & Bible records
- A Preliminary checklist of the manuscript collections at the Nevada Historical Society
- Chart and quill
History
- 1863 census of some prominent residents of the Nevada territory
- Conflict on the Carson
- Death valley
- First biennial report of the Nevada Historical Society, 1907-1908
- The golden state : a history of the region west of the Rocky mountains ; embracing California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Washington territory, British Columbia, and Alaska, from the 1st period to the present time … with a history of Mormonism and the Mormons
- The history of Nevada
- History of Nevada
- History of Nevada : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers
- History of Nevada, Colorado and Wyoming, 1540-1888
- The history of the Comstock lode, 1850-1920
- A history of the state of Nevada : its resources and people
- Narrative to accompany the color filmstrips on the Oregon and California Trails, series 1
- Nevada : a narrative of the conquest of a frontier land comprising the story of her people from the dawn of history to the present time…
- Nevada : official centennial magazine
- Nevada centennial magazine : 1864-1964
- Nevada historical research miscellaneous history
- Nevada State Historical Society papers : 1925-1926
- Nevada territory pioneers who stayed
- Nevada, a guide to the silver state
- Pioneer Nevada
- Pioneer Nevada
- Political history of Nevada
- A Preliminary checklist of the mansucript collections at the Nevada Historical Society
- Reproduction of Thompson and West’s “History of Nevada, 1881” : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers
- Restless strangers : Nevada’s immigrants and their interpreters
- Sketches of the Washoe Silver Mines
- State of Nevada second biennial report of the Nevada Historical Society 1909-1910
- State of Nevada third biennial report of the Nevada Historical Society 1911-1912
- Ten years in Nevada : or, Life on the Pacific coast
- USS Nevada BB36 : history of the USS Nevada
- Who’s who in Nevada : brief sketches of men who are making history in the Sagebrush State
- Index to Maude Swain Taylor’s “From my Nevada notebook”
- State of Nevada second biennial report of the Nevada Historical Society 1909-1910
- State of Nevada third biennial report of the Nevada Historical Society 1911-1912
- Biennial report of the Nevada Historical Society
- Nevada Historical Society quarterly
Government & Politics
- Political history of Nevada
- Mister Speaker to Madam Speaker: a compendium of biographies of the speakers of the Nevada Assembly : including territorial legislature through 150th anniversary of statehood
Libraries, Museums, & Archives
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 02, Federal Courts, no. 27, Nevada
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 03, Department of the Treasury, no. 27, Nevada
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 04, Department of War, no. 27, Nevada
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 05, Department of Justice, no. 27, Nevada
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 07, Department of the Navy, no. 27, Nevada
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 12, Veterans’ Administration, no. 27, Nevada
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 16, Farm Credit Administration, no. 27, Nevada
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 17, Miscellaneous agencies, no. 27, Nevada
- Inventory of territorial documents, 1860-1863
- Inventory of the county archives of Nevada, no. 2
- Inventory of the county archives of Nevada, no. 7
- Inventory of the county archives of Nevada, no. 8
- Inventory of the county archives of Nevada, no. 9
Medical
- United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991, index
- Sanitary record of sick & etc., 1897-1910
Newspapers
- California/Nevada historical research, marriage records/notices, ca. 1847-1910
- Nevada death records from various sources
- Nevada historical research miscellaneous history
- Western newspapers on microfilm
Public Records
- United States Public Records, 1970-2009, index
- Interior Department appointment papers, Nevada, 1860-1907
Societies
- Clubs and lodges in Nevada beginning in 1869
- First biennial report of the Nevada Historical Society, 1907-1908
- A Preliminary checklist of the mansucript collections at the Nevada Historical Society
- State of Nevada second biennial report of the Nevada Historical Society 1909-1910
Nevada Military Records
- United States Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865
- United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865
- United States Revolutionary War, Virginia Pension Application Files, 1830-1875
- United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians, 1861-1866
- United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians, 1861-1866
- Nevada, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865
- Nevada, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
- United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images
- United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
- United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
- United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
- United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
- United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, index & images
- United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, index & images
- United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images
- United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images
- United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index links to images
- United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
- Annual reports, 1865-1930
- Military records
Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
Mexican-American War, 1846-1848
- United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848, index & images
- United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, index & images
US Civil War
- United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865, index links to images
- United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865, index
- United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index links to images
- United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images
- United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
- Nevada, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865, index links to images
- Index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Nevada
World War I
- United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index links to images
- United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index & images
- Nevada’s golden stars : a memorial volume designed as a gift from the state of Nevada to the relatives of those Nevada heroes who died in the World War
- Nevada’s golden stars: a memorial volume designed as a gift from the state of Nevada to the relatives of those Nevada heroes who died in the World War
- Nevada, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths, 1917-1919
- Nevada, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918
World War II
- United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, index
- United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, index & images
- Nevada, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945, index & images
- Nevada Selective Service System registration cards [World War II], 1877-1897: fourth registration
- Nevada, military records: World War II 4th draft registration cards, 1942
- World War II honor list of dead and missing. State of Nevada
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