The following are subjects found in the Holdrege Area Genealogy Club's Phelps Helps newsletter 1996. The Phelps Helps is an 8 - 10 page newsletter that is published four times a year containing articles of various Phelps and Harlan County history. The subjects listed below can be found in the Phelps Helps Volume#, Quarterly# and Page# listed after them.
Any Phelps Helps quarterly can be purchased for $2.00 plus 32 cents postage each.
OR 50 cents per page copied with postage being 32 cents up to 4 copies.
Interested genealogists can either write The Holdrege Area Genealogy Club, P.O. Box 164, Holdrege, NE 68949 for additional information or email Sandra Slater.
Subject - Volume # - Quarterly # - Page #
"Phelps Helps" - Subject Index (1997) Volume - Issue - Page
Alma - County seat of Harlan Co. 6- 4- 7
Ambrotypes - History 6- 3- 7
Atlanta
German prisoner of war camp - P.O.W. card file 6- 4- 2
German prisoner of war camp - Newsletter 6- 2- 3
microfilm available
Bertrand
"Bertrand Harold" - Civil War Story 6- 1- 3
History 6- 3- 3
Photograph (Turn of Century) 6- 3- 3
Blizzards - Great Easter Storm (1873) - History 6- 4- 5
Cemetaries
Harlan County - Publication in progress 6- 1- 2
Harlan County - Book for sale 6- 2- 4 6- 3- 2
Highland (near Bertrand) 6- 1- 4
Immanuel Lutheran (Harlan Co.) - Book for sale
6- 1- 2 6- 2- 4 6- 3- 2 6- 4- 3
Phelps County Vol. 1 & 2 - Books for sale
6- 1- 2 6- 2- 4 6- 3- 2 6- 4- 3
Phelps County Vol. 3 - Publication in progress
6- 1- 2 6- 2- 4 6- 3- 2 6- 4- 3
Censuses - Microfilm available 6- 2- 3
Check Conversion Service - Ruesch International 6- 3- 2
Christian Children's Home - History 6- 2- 6
Christian Orphans Home - Photograph 6- 2- 8
Christmas Shopping (1928) - "Holdrege Daily Citizen" 6- 4- 9
Churches
Episcopal Church in Nebraska - History 6- 4- 3
Fjalkestad Parish (Sweden) 6- 4- 4
Sweden - Membership records on Internet 6- 1- 1
Swedish, American & Canadian (Indexes) 6- 3- 2
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran - Marriages 6- 4- 8
Vinslov Parish (Sweden) 6- 4- 4
Westmark Evangelical 6- 4- 5
Civil War - Recollections by Landy Walker 6- 1- 3
Computers & Genealogy
Email addresses of members 6- 1- 2 6- 2- 2
Holdrege Area Genealogy Club - New Members 6- 1- 1
from Internet
Internet - Swedish Church Records 6- 1- 1
"Phelps Helps" on Internet 6- 2- 1 6- 3- 1
Convalescence Home (Holdrege) 6- 1- 4
Daguerreotypes - History 6- 3- 7
Droughts - Spring Creek (1874) 6- 4- 6
Family histories
Blackburn, John 6- 1- 2
Johnson, Ernest & Irene (Hopkins) 6- 3- 2
Olson, Olas 6- 1- 2
Peterson & Olson 6- 3- 2
Peterson, Nels 6- 4- 4
Walker, Landy 6- 1- 3
Fort Kearny - First chaplain 6- 4- 3
Fort Laramie - Army chaplain 6- 4- 3
Fraudulent Companies/researchers list 6- 3- 1
Harlan County
Cemetaries - Book for sale 6- 2- 4 6- 3- 2
Certificate of Election (1875) 6- 4- 7
Early History 6- 4- 7
Immanuel Lutheran Cemetary - Book for sale 6- 2- 4
6- 4- 3
School Districts (1938-1939) 6- 3- 8
Teachers (1938-1939) 6- 3- 8
Holdrege
Christian Children's Home - History 6- 2- 6
Convalescence Home 6- 1- 4
Deisher & Kronquest move business 6- 1- 5
Glover Post No. 111 6- 1- 6
"Holdrege Daily Citizen" - Christmas article 6- 4- 9
(1928)
"Holdrege Daily Citizen" - On microfilm 6- 1- 2
"Holdrege Progress" - On microfilm 6- 1- 2
Horse & buggy disappears 6- 1- 6
July 4, 1885 Celebration 6- 1- 7
News from (July 1885) - "Holdrege Republican" 6- 1- 7
News from (July 1885) - "Holdrege Republican" 6- 2- 8
News from (June 1885) - "Holdrege Republican" 6- 1- 6
Opera house nearing completion 6- 2- 8
Radio Station KUVR 6- 3- 4
Railroads (Cartoon) 6- 1- 4
Holdrege Area Genealogy Club
Email addresses of members 6- 1- 2 6- 2- 2
New Swedish members 6- 1- 1
Outstanding Genealogist Award 6- 2- 2
"Phelps Helps" Subject Index 6- 1- 1
Immigration - First Swedes to America 6- 1- 1
Indianola - Water spout burst 6- 1- 6
Mail Order Brides (Phelps County) 6- 3- 6
Marriages
Phelps County - History 6- 4- 8
Phelps County - Microfilm available 6- 2- 3
Phelps County - Publication in progress 6- 1- 2
6- 2- 4
Melrose - Early Harlan Co. seat 6- 4- 7
Mortality schedules (NE) - Microfilm available 6- 2- 3
Nebraska Lumber Co. - Robbery 6- 2- 8
Nebraska federal & state census - Availability 6- 4- 2
Newspapers
"Bertrand Harold" - Civil War Story 6- 1- 3
"Holdrege Daily Citizen" - Christmas Shopping 6- 4- 9
(1928)
"Holdrege Daily Citizen" - Convalescence Home 6- 1- 4
"Holdrege Daily Citizen" - Deisher & Kronquest 6- 1- 5
move business
"Holdrege Daily Citizen" - Horse & buggy 6- 1- 6
disappears
"Holdrege Daily Citizen" - On microfilm 6- 1- 2
"Holdrege Progress" - On microfilm 6- 1- 2
"Holdrege Republican" - News from June 1885 6- 1- 6
"Holdrege Republican" - News from July 1885 6- 1- 7
"Holdrege Republican" - News from July 1885 6- 2- 8
"Nebraska Episcopalian" - Historic Notes 6- 4- 3
Holdrege - Microfilm available 6- 2- 3
Orphan Home - School Census (1947) 6- 2- 4
Orphans - Christian Children's Home History 6- 2- 6
Phelps Center
Christian Children's Home History 6- 2- 6
Prairie Fire (1878) 6- 3- 6
Sale of county buildings 6- 1- 7
Phelps County
Bertrand - History 6- 3- 3
Cemetaries - Books for Sale 6- 2- 4
Immigrants from Sweden - List available 6- 2- 1
Last surviving Civil War veteran 6- 1- 3
Mail order brides 6- 3- 6
Permits to Wed - History 6- 4- 8
Prairie fire (1878) 6- 3- 5
Probate records (Index) 6- 1- 1
Spring Creek - History 6- 4- 5
Phelps County Museum
Books purchased/donated
6- 1- 2 6- 2- 1 6- 3- 1
Historical Collection catalog 6- 2- 2
Immigrants from Sweden to Phelps County - 6- 2- 1
List available
Library - Microfilm available 6- 2- 3
Photographs - Old types (History) 6- 3- 7
Prairie Fires
Bertrand (1887 & 1888) 6- 3- 3
Phelps County (1878) 6- 3- 5
Prisoner of war camp - Newsletters (Microfilm 6- 2- 3
available)
Probate Records - Phelps County (Index) 6- 1- 1
Publications in progress
Harlan County Cemetary Book 6- 1- 2 6- 2- 4
Phelps County Cemetaries Vol. 3
6- 1- 2 6- 2- 4 6- 3- 2 6- 4- 3
Phelps County Marriage Books 6- 1- 2 6- 2- 4
Publications for sale
Harlan Co., NE Cemetaries 6- 3- 2
Holdrege Area Genealogy Club 6- 1- 2 6- 2- 4
Immanuel Lutheran Cemetary (Harlan Co.)
6- 1- 2 6- 3- 2 6- 4- 3
Phelps County Cemetaries Vol. 1 & 2
6- 1- 2 6- 3- 2 6- 4- 3
Rabelov Castle, Sweden (Description) 6- 4- 4
Radio Stations - KUVR (Holdrege) 6- 3- 4
Railroads
Burlington - Locates town of Bertrand 6- 3- 3
Holdrege (Cartoon) 6- 1- 4
Ruesch Int'l Financial - Check conversion services 6- 3- 2
Schools
District No. 1 (Rock Falls) 6- 4- 6
District No. 2 6- 4- 6
District No. 3 6- 4- 6
Harlan County Districts (1938-1939) 6- 3- 8
Harlan County Teachers (1938-1939) 6- 3- 8
Orphan Home Census (1947) 6- 2- 4
Skane, Sweden (Description) 6- 4- 4
Societies - Glover Post No. 111 (Holdrege) 6- 1- 6
Sod houses (Photograph) 6- 2- 7
Speakers
Meitzler, Leland K. 6- 3- 2
Metzner, Leland 6- 4- 2
White, Pippa 6- 3- 3
Spring Creek
Early History 6- 4- 5
Prairie Fire (1878) 6- 3- 6
Sweden
Church Records on Internet 6- 1- 1
Church records (indexes) - Swedish, American 6- 3- 2
& Canadian
First immigrants to America 6- 1- 1
Fjalkestad Parish Church 6- 4- 4
Immigrants to Phelps Co., NE - List available 6- 2- 1
Members from Internet 6- 1- 1
Ostergotland parishes (some) 6- 2- 7
Rabelov Castle 6- 4- 4
Skane 6- 4- 4
Skillingaryd 6- 1- 1
Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center 6- 3- 2
Holdings
Vinslov Parish 6- 4- 4
Tintypes - History 6- 3- 7
Translators (Swedish) - Anderson, Bernice 6- 1- 1
Worlds' Columbian Exposition - Chicago (1892) 6- 4- 7
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