One of the main goals for genealogists is finding birth, marriage, and death (BMD) information about their ancestors.
Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians and archivists (as well as the largest of them all - FamilySearch), a great number of indexes to birth, marriage, and death collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific BMD information, and sometimes scanned images of the actual birth, marriage, and death certificates themselves. These free online collections have hundreds of millions of records in them in total.
There are a great number of online and offline collections that may include birth, marriage, and death information that are not included in the lists below. For example, newspapers, draft registration files, naturalization records, etc. have BMD info. To find out which types of other records may include BMD information, please see:
- 27 Ways to Find Ancestor Birth Information
- 22 Ways to Find Ancestors Marriage Information
- 21 Ways to Find Ancestors Death Information
The lists below are specific birth, marriage, and death indexes and record collections that are available for free online for the state of Nebraska.
(Updated September, 2018; recently added links are in BOLD)
General U.S.
- United States Births and Christenings, 1867-1931
- United States Deaths and Burials, 1867-1961
- United States Korean War Battle Deaths, 1950-1957
- United States Marriages, 1733-1990
- United States Social Security Death Index
- United States, Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
Nebraska
- Box Butte County Marriages, 1887-2015
- Brown County Marriages
- Buffalo County Marriages
- Butler County Marriages
- Cass County Marriages
- Cass County Marriage Indexes
- Colfax County Marriages
- Cuming Co. Marriages
- Dakota County Births
- Dawson County Marriage Index
- Dodge Co. Marriages
- Douglas County Marriage Licenses
- Douglas County Marriage Licenses Search
- Greater Omaha Birth and Marriage Records
- Greeley County Deaths
- Greeley County Marriages
- Hall County Marriages
- Hayes County Births
- Jefferson County Marriages 1864-1880
- Jefferson County Marriages 1880-1888
- Keya Paha County Marriages
- Knox County Death Index
- Lancaster County Marriage Licenses
- Lincoln County Marriage Indexes
- Lincoln County Marriage License Search
- Lincoln Vital Records
- Merrick County Marriage Indexes
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Nance County Marriage Indexes
- Nebraska Federal and State Census Record Mortality Schedules 1860-1885
- Nebraska Marriage Records by county - index
- Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995
- Omaha Area Births
- Omaha Area Deaths
- Omaha Area Marriages
- Omaha Births
- Omaha Marriages
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Otoe County Birth Index
- Otoe County Marriage Index
- Perkins County Birth Index
- Rock County Marriages
- Sarpy County Marriages
- Sarpy County Marriage Licenses
- Saunders County Marriages
- Sherman County Births 1917-1919
- Sherman County Deaths 1917-1919
- Thurston County Marriages
- Washington County Death Index
- Washington County Marriages
- Way County Marriages
- Webster County Birth Index
- Webster County Death Index
Check out the links for other states on the BMD Links page.
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