Nebraska Vital Records
- Answers to your questions: What's available? Where? What's the cost?
County Court
Colfax County Courthouse
P.O. Box 191
Schuyler, NE 68661
(402) 352-8511
Request probate records providing the name of deceased and date of
death, if known.
County Clerk/Register of Deeds
Colfax County Courthouse
411 E. 11th Street
Schuyler, NE 68661
(402) 352-8504
To request copies of marriage records: please provide as much information as possible, along with a self-addressed, stamped envelope and $1.00 per record requested.
City and Village Offices - addresses, phone numbers, etc.
Schuyler Public Library
1123 A Street
Schuyler, NE 68661 (402) 352-2221
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A special thank you to Claire Mares for giving permission to post her
cemetery records online. Pictures of many of the cemeteries have been
taken by Claire Mares and scanned and submitted by Renee Bunck. Thank
you on behalf of Colfax County researchers!!!
- Czech National & Catholic Cemetery
- Clarkson; picture; picture
- Index to Czech National & Catholic Cemetery
- Danish Lutheran Cemetery - Maple Creek Precinct;
- Dry Creek Catholic Cemetery - Midland Precinct;
- Grandview Cemetery - Colfax Township; picture; picture
- Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery - Schuyler;
- Holy Trinity Cemetery - Midland Precinct; picture; picture; picture
- Leigh Cemetery - Stanton Township; picture; picture
- Index to Leigh Cemetery
- 119 photos of gravestones at Leigh Cemetery
- National Bohemian Cemetery - Howells; picture
- Olean Cemetery - Lincoln Township; picture
- Osada Tabor Cemetery - Old Settler Cemetery in Lincoln Township; picture; picture
- Pont Cemetery - a/k/a Grove Hill Cemetery in Lincoln Township; picture
- Richland Cemetery - Richland; picture
- Schroeder Cemetery - Midland Township;
- Schuyler Cemetery - Schuyler; picture; picture
- Sousek Cemetery - Midland Township; picture
- St. John Nepomucene Cemetery -
Howells, located in Cuming County;
- Index to St. John Nepomucene Cemetery
- St. Mary's Cemetery - Leigh; picture; picture
- St. Mary's Cemetery - a/k/a Wilson Cemetery in Wilson Township; picture
- St. Peter & Paul Cemetery - Lincoln Township; picture; picture
- Unnamed Cemetery;
- Wilson Cemetery - Wilson Precinct
- Zion Presbyterian Cemetery - Adams Township;
- Zollman Cemetery - a/k/a People's Cemetery in Grant Township - picture of location
Please Note: The index to most of the cemeteries is at the beginning of the document. You will need to scroll down to find the page(s) which gives the information on the headstone.
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Pictures of selected headstones - submitted by Lila Niemann Garner
(LNiemannG@navix.net)
Probate Records:
This index was taken from the Colfax County Court's probate index book. Entry includes name, file number and the range of dates of filing.
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FUNERAL HOMES:
Mr. Frank Miller III, previous owner of Miller Funeral Home, has generously donated copies of the Funeral Home records to the Clarkson Public Library, complete with index. I am in the process of preparing the index to be placed online. You may contact the Clarkson Public Library to request more information. When requesting information, please use the name and record number as provided in the following index.
Please Note, however, that, with very rare exception, records through 1936 do not contain any additional information than is provided in the following index.
MISCELLANEOUS:
- Mortuary and Prayer Cards - A special thanks to Claire Mares for contributing this information.
- Funeral Service Programs and Prayer Cards - Thanks to Carrie M. Pau for her contribution!
OBITUARIES: Please send your obituaries to me for posting. Complete obituaries may be posted that are from any paper earlier than 1923 Information will need to be abstracted from later editions to avoid copyright violations. Complete obituaries may be submitted from the Columbus Telegram, Colfax County Press, Leigh World, The Howells Journal, and Schuyler Sun.
NOTE: Be sure to check for other obituaries in the "Peeking into the Past" and "Looking Back at the World" articles found on the Miscellaneous page.
Schuyler Quill:
- Miscellaneous Obituaries:
- 1901;
- Miscellaneous Obituaries:
- 1899; 1900; 1915; 1920; 1924; 1926; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1932; 1938; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1945; 1952; 1955; 1957; 1959; 1960; 1962; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1972; 1977; 1979; 1981; 1982; 1984; 1987; 1989; 1990; 1994; 1997; 1998; 2000;
- Abstracts of obituaries:
Howells Journal:
- Miscellaneous Obituaries:
Leigh World:
- Abstracts of obituaries - NOTE: These are not complete!
Colfax County Call:
- Miscellaneous Obituaries:
Colfax County Press:
- Abstracts of obituaries - NOTE: These are not complete! [I bought several boxes of newspapers at an auction, so any issues that are missing are not available to me.]
Miscellaneous and Unknown Newspapers:
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Out-of-State obituaries:
- Miscellaneous Obituaries published out-of-state with Colfax County connections
Columbus Telegram:
- See Platte Co. pages for obituaries, indices and abstracts from the Columbus newspapers. Many have Colfax County connections.
- Emil Folda (published December 1935)
- Rudolf Zajicek (published December 1935)
For more information on the GROTELUESCHEN/GROTELUSCHEN families, visit Bill Ehlers' Website at http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/e/h/l/William-A-Ehlers/index.html -- also included is information on the EHLERS, WULF and ERB families.
Marriage Records:
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