Guidelines: The census files are ordered as extracted. They can be searched (using your browsers "Find") by Surname, Surname, Given name, or by the associated soundex. The surname & given names are as extracted with no attempt at spelling correction. If you do not know the soundex of your surname of interest, you can Calculate a Soundex here.

1870 Census of "Pawnee Reservation" by Mark Byars
appears to be employees of the agency.

1890 Veterans & Widows Census

1880 Nance Census
Now verified by BNGS

1900 Nance Census

1885 Nance Census

1920 Nance Census (Feb 2004)

Guidelines: Gazetteer lists are scanned directly, surname and given name or initials, with no soundex. The business list includes occupation and is ordered by location. The farmer list includes their service post office which may not have been in Nance Co.

1890-91 NE State Gazetteer
Nance County Business list (persons living in towns)
Nance County Farmers (each with post office)

1917 NE State Gazetteer - Nance County
(Business listings only, no farmers list that year)

A more recent book -
"Perkey's Nebraska Place Names" lists many more locations, and can be purchased from NE State Historical Society.

Read a "Historical and Descriptive Sketch" of Nance County from the "Immigration Issue" of the
Nebraska State Journal (Lincoln) - 5 Jun 1887.

Supplement to THE NEWS-JOURNAL.
 Nance County Souvenir Edition of
13 Oct 1916 including early history of county,
politician's & business advertisements (photos).
Table of contents added and an index for names & photos.
Thanks to BNGS!

Nance County News Bits - please contribute any clippings dated 1926 or earlier, related to Nance County. We'd prefer to have the newspaper name & date of publication if possible, but .....
4/16/1999 - Campbell related obits & extracts added.
8/18/2000 - Bits from Belgrade Herald added, including Sprague obits (our thanks for assistance from Ruthie Imus of BNGS).
Apr 2003: Obituary extracts - mostly from on-line newspapers. Can't guarantee that we can keep up with this! Some of the newspaper websites have "archives" - check for full obits there.
NOTE: Will add obits published elsewhere for persons born in Nance County. We'll do the extracting, if you send full text for later dates. Please include newspaper name and date of publication. Thanks.

NOTE: Nebraska News webpage includes the extracts done for NSGS and NSHS over the last 15+ years by a number of volunteers. Any "collection" covering an entire reel of newspaper microfilm, etc. can be contributed to that file. Please read the instructions - it will take some practice to use the files! 

Nebraska Obituary Extracts (state-wide collection from various on-line NE newspapers starting in 2001)

Andreas "History of Nebraska", 1882
Nance County Chapter (Look for link to index)

Excerpts from the Official Nebraska State Atlas, 1885
Thanks to Joanne Roth

Johnson's History of Nebraska, 1880
Nance County portion

"Who's Who in Nebraska", 1940
Nance County Chapter
Published by Nebraska Press Association & reproduced with permission.

"Compendium of History Remininscense & Biography of Nebraska" has been produced for NEGenWeb Project Resource Center, On-Line Library. Check for Nance County surnames:  Agnew, Campbell, Carter, Cleavland, Copley, Crabtree, Cravath, Davis, Dean, Dinsdale, Dolbear, Downing, Edington, Ewing, Fuller, Green, Hodges, Huff, Jenks, Judkins, Kliese, Kremer, LaGrange, Lamb, Ludington, Mollin, Palmer, Parker, Paton, Patterson, Penney, Porterfield, Ridell, Saare, Schow, Skoog, Smith, Stearns, Thomas, Turner, Umstead, Vancleave, Vogel, Weems, Welch, Willard, Williamson, Young.

Brief bios (most with photos) for: E. E. COPPLE, A. B. CURRIER, W. H. DAVIS, M. J. FLAHERTY, J. H. KEMP, George D. MEIKLEJOHN, W. F. PROWETT, G. F. ROBINSON, W. L. ROSE, E. W. SMITH, D. STEPHENSON, J. R. STEPHENSON, and D. A. WILLARD

Compendium of History Remininscense & Biography of WESTERN Nebraska

"Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences" collection issued by NE D.A.R. in 1916. Please see - "Gray Eagle, Pawnee Chief" (p194), "Lover's Leap" (poem p196), "Early Indian History" (p198), "Early Days in Nance County" (p206), "The Pawnee Chief's Farewell" (p208), "Some Personal Incidents" (McAllister, p242), and "Pioneer Life (Reeder, p246).

Historical and Descriptive Review of Nebraska, Vol II - 1892 (May 2003) - No Nance County page)

Albinus NANCE - Biography of the one-time Governor of NE, from Portrait & Biographical Album of Lancaster County, Nebraska.

NE Association of County Officials - Brief history of Nance County

Lena Johnson Schlichtemeier's History of Swan Johnson Family of Nance County, Nebraska (January 1936)

Nance County - National Register sites (NSHS photos & files)

Grave "witching" (demonstration website)

USGenWeb Penny Postcard Collection, Nebraska page by Joy Fisher

Nebraska Historic Buildings Survey - by county, 1992 NSHS files