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 April, 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
- Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995
- Nebraska Marriage Records by county - index
- Box Butte County Marriages, 1887-2015
- Douglas County Marriage Licenses
- Lancaster County Marriage Licenses
- Greater Omaha Birth and Marriage Records
- Greeley County Deaths
- Knox County Death Index
- Lincoln Vital Records
- Omaha Area Births
- Omaha Area Marriages
- Omaha Area Deaths
- Sarpy County Marriage Licenses
- Washington County Marriages
- Washington County Death Index
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
Check out the links for other states on the BMD Links! page.
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