JULY, 1926   Volume 4   LINCOLN, NEBR   Number 3

 

 

   The Record is issued quarterly on the first of January, April, July and October. Terms: two dollars a year in advance. Subscriptions should be sent to Mrs. C. C. Waldo, treasurer, 826 South Fourteenth Street, Lincoln, Nebraska.

   The Nebraska Genealogical Society, believing that it is the duty of the people of the Middle West to connect the present with the past, is endeavoring to interest the individual in collecting and preserving such vital records, antedating 1850, as now remain in existence. Anyone desiring to help in this important work may do so (1) by subscribing to our magazine, (2) by becoming an active, sustaining or life member of the society, (3) by contributing data (inscriptions from gravestones bearing a birth date prior to 1850; abstracts from wills giving the full name of the maker of the will, when the will was made, when and where it was probated, the name of the wife, if given, and the names of the children and other relatives mentioned in the will; Bible records; family lines, etc.) and (4) by helping to enforce the registration law which has been passed in Nebraska providing that all birth, death, marriage and divorce records be filed with the proper authorities.

You may secure the marriage. records from the county judge's office, the divorce records from the office of the district clerk, the birth records from your local registrar, who is usually the town or city clerk. The Nebraska registration law went into effect in 1904. Since that time these records have all been filed at our State House. We shall be glad to receive a copy of any records antedating 1904.

There are various motives that incite the individual to study genealogy. Some men and women are actuated by a spirit of altruism. Other inquirers are inclined to trace their family lines on account of tales of vast estates which remain in abeyance in the Old World and a few smaller estates in this country. Some individuals seem to be urged on by curiosity alone. To establish their claim to descent from some noted warrior, some distinguished statesman or the first settlers of our country seems to be the height of

   "Now, it's rather at variance with this thought, but I confess I had never thought of it as especially important, although I could see where the study of history in which our forebears figured would tend to appreciation of our country and its ideals.

   "But perhaps an inkling of importance to the future has come to me in the past few hours in reading 'The Fruit of the Family Tree'.

   "What varied ancestral lines will go into this new D. A. R. record! How few of our D. A. R. women can claim undiluted Colonial ancestry. How many, especially the farther west one goes, have in their veins the blood of those newly arrived in the United States. Perhaps a century from now conclusions of vast importance may be possible from the data contributed at this time and for which the motive may at present be but family pride or eager patriotism."

   There is hardly a relation of life, social, legal or economic, in which the evidence furnished by accurate registration of births may not prove to be of the greatest value, not only to the individual but also to the public at large. These birth records are frequently used in many practical ways:

   An affidavit of any person who has personal knowledge of a birth will be accepted as proof. Have your birth registered before your relatives or friends who could make affidavit have passed away. Do not neglect to have your children's births registered. It may save them much trouble and annoyance at some future time. If you desire a birth certificate, notify us, and the proper blanks will be sent to you.

   GENERAL JONATHAN⁴ MOULTON (Jacob, ³ John,² John¹), born July 22, 1726, in Hampton, New Hampshire, died September