NEGenWeb Project - Burt County

1881 News Extracts Oakland Independent, Oakland, Burt Co., Nebraska.
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Event codes are seen in the first colon delimited field:

ANNIV - Anniversary mentioned
B - Birth
BD - Birthday mentioned (typically for older people, but relaxed later)
BIO - Biographical article
CRIME - uh...self evident. :-) Usually outside Burt Co.
D - Death
D-_______ - Death by murder, suicide
DIV - Divorce
FAM - Some family mentioned
GEOG - Some info about moving to/from Burt Co.
INJURY - Self explanatory
M - Marriage
OBIT - Obituary (apparently either a mistake on my part or when no death was mentioned elsewhere in paper) Possibly changed to "D"

The event code is followed by: surname, given name or initial(s); date of ISSUE, with page & column number; location where the incident reported occurred. The line below that is a summary of the news report and does not necessarily reflect the extent of the article.
A copy of the original newspaper article may be secured from NSHS, Lincoln, NE. You may prefer to rent the microfilm from NSHS through interlibrary loan. See "A Guide to Genealogical Research at NSHS" (please scan down that page, to the newspaper section).

Updated 18 August 2017 by Dianna G. Curtis