On June 1, 2005, the Nebraska Legislature passed LB211 establishing a central data bank to record the location of cemeteries, burial grounds, mausoleums, and columbaria in Nebraska. This legislation directs the Nebraska State Historical Society (NSHS) to establish and maintain a statewide cemetery registry and to make it available to the public.
Cities, villages, townships, counties, churches, fraternal and benevolent societies, cemetery districts, and associations that own or maintain a cemetery, Native American burial ground, mausoleum, or columbarium are requested to report the site to the state registry every ten years. Limited state funding was appropriated through June 30, 2007 to support collection of data to establish the Nebraska Statewide Cemetery Registry (NSCR).
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