NEGenWeb Project
Boone County, Nebraska
Boone County News

Newspaper links that have Boone County Info:

Norfolk Daily News (Madison County, publishes death & funeral announcements)

Note: As of 1 Jan 2006 the Norfolk Newspaper is publishing obits on-line, available for one week.

There is NO archive.

Columbus Telegram (Platte County, publishes obits)

Grand Island Independent (Hall County, publishes obits)

Note: old obits published in Platte & Madison Counties can be secured

through the local genealogy clubs, see website.

Obituaries and extracts, related to Boone County

Nebraska Obituaries Extracts (website includes newspapers from all over the state)

Newsbits for Boone County, NE

Wheeler County Advance, 1886 - Nickerson-Messersmith marriage.

Belgrade Herald, 10 May 1902 - Report of fire at St. Edward, NE

Nance County Journal (Fullerton) - 7 June 1918, Robinson-Cox marriage.

Petersburg Press (1948 wedding, 1959 death, 8 issues extracted - one from 1957, 5 from 1959, 2 from 1960) Thanks to the Western Rose Cafe.

Grand Island Independent - see archives (must register to access)

     Fri. - 6 May 2005 "Forty years ago, tornado changed Primrose's history", by Pete Letheby

      Sat. - 7 May 2005 "The four who died that day"

"Levander Funeral Home reaches 50 year mark" - see archives of Columbus Telegram, 24 Jul 2006.

NOTE: Change at Columbus Telegram website - free archive for 14 days only.


NEWSPAPERS of BOONE COUNTY
Newspapers available on microfilm at Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE
for Albion
for Cedar Rapids, Petersburg, Primrose and St. Edward
Microfilm of old newspapers can be rented from NSHS Library
For information, please see their website
Nebraska State Historical Society


NEBRASKA NEWS - website which includes
Newspaper Extracts done by NSGS and NSHS volunteers during the last 15+ years!

Please read the instructions! The file set includes over 150,000 entries.

It is a "flat file", with a search engine.
If you want to view every extract for a particular newspaper,
you must first look up the newspaper code number, go to the first entry by newspaper code.
Currently available for Boone County (September 2002)

Albion Argus (newspaper code 0065)

10 extracts related to WW II servicemen

Petersburg Index (newspaper code 1515)

Extracts from Feb 1914 to Dec 1917
     and from Jan 1920 to Dec 1925.

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