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VITAL RECORDS
PLATTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA


Nebraska Vital Records - Answers to your questions: What's available? Where? What's the cost?


County Court
Platte County Courthouse
2610 14th Street
Columbus, NE 68601
(402) 563-4905

Request probate records, providing the name of deceased and date of death, if known.
(See records available on the bottom of this page.)
Pages of interest will be copied and mailed to you at a charge of 25 cents per page copied.


District Court
Platte County Courthouse
2610 14th Street
Columbus, NE 68601
(402) 563-4906

Request copies of divorce records, or other District Court proceedings.


County Clerk
Platte County Courthouse
2610 14th Street
Columbus, NE 68601
(402) 563-4904

Request copies of marriage records. Please provide as much information as possible, along with your return address, and $1.00 per record requested.


City Clerk
Columbus City Offices
2424 14th Street
Columbus, NE 68601
(402) 562-4224

The City Clerk has Columbus Cemetery records (and ONLY those).


Columbus Public Library
2504 14th Street
Columbus, NE 68601



Divorces
An index of most divorces published in the Columbus Telegram from about 1932 to 1947. Please contact Platte Valley Kin Seekers for more information: Divorces
Births, Marriages and Deaths:
Published in the Columbus newspapers. Although I cannot guarantee that I have found every mention of a birth, marriage or death, I have completed my search of the papers through 1890. NOTE: Please note that the designation of Birth, Marriage or Death, along with the surname in caps, is NOT part of the printed article. That has been included only for ease in locating the information.

1900: Jan-Apr; May-Aug; Sep-Dec - 1901: Jan-Mar; Apr-Jun; Jul-Sep; Oct-Dec; 1902: Jan-Mar; Apr-Jun; Jul-Sep; Oct-Dec; 1903: Jan-Mar; Apr-Jun; Jul-Sep; Oct-Dec; 1904: Jan-Mar; Apr-Jun; Jul-Sep; Oct-Dec; 1905: Jan-Mar; Apr-Jun; Jul-Sep; Oct-Dec; 1906: Jan-Apr; May-Aug; Sep-Dec 1907: Jan-Apr; May-Aug; Sep-Dec; 1908: Jan-Apr; May-Aug; Sep-Dec 1909: Jan-Mar; Apr-Jun; Jul-Sep; Oct-Dec 1910: Jan-May; Jun-Sep; Oct-Dec
1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1987; 1988; 1991; 1998; 2000;


Recent Obituaries:

DON'T MISS THIS!!! Search an index to obituaries published in the Columbus Telegram:
Index to Obituaries Published in the Columbus Telegram (Off site)


Miscellaneous obituaries:
NOTE: Please send your obituaries to me for posting. Complete obituaries may be posted that are from any paper earlier than 1923 and all those from the Columbus Telegram and Schuyler Sun. Information will need to be abstracted from later editions to avoid copyright violations.

Probate Records:
This index was taken from the Platte County Court's probate index book which includes filings through 1989. As with all records, misspellings abound, so please check carefully for your name of interest. Entry includes name and date of death, if recorded, or year of filing. - WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS!!!

PLEASE NOTE: When the file contents were microfilmed recently, it was learned that some files are missing. As I find this information, I will mark the name with **. I hesitate removing the name because it may be helpful to you to know approximately when this person died and that he/she was in Platte County. Please do not request copies from the Court if there are ** in front of the name.
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Funeral Homes:
Book 1 - July 5, 1858 - March 1, 1881
Book 2 - March 1, 1881 - Dec 15, 1884
Book 3 - Dec 12, 1884 - March 4, 1889
Book 4 - Nov 8, 1888 - April 3, 1893
Book 5 - April 11, 1893 - January 3, 1898
Book 6 - Febr 22, 1898 - March 5, 1902
Book 7 - Febr 6, 1902 - May 1, 1906
Book 8 -April 16, 1906 - January 4, 1910
Book 9 - January 6, 1910 - March 6, 1913
Book 10 - March 7, 1913 - April 8, 1916
Book 11 - April 12, 1916 - June 29, 1919
Book 12 - June 28, 1919 - March 22, 1922
Book 13 - March 22, 1922 - July 30, 1923
Book 14 - August 10, 1923 - September 7, 1927
Miscellaneous newspaper accounts of marriages and anniversaries

Orphans and Adoptees - many articles gathered from newspapers and most found elsewhere on these pages collected on one page for your convenience.


Funeral Remembrance Cards -- submitted by Marge Sandlier


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