Director Michael J. Smith's remarks for the dedication of the
Hall County Heritage Memorial (pdf)
The Nebraska 1940 Census Index has just been released. Use it for free at FamilySearch. For further information about the 1940 Nebraska census see the NSHS blog titled The Release of the 1940 Census.
A new report has been issued on heritage tourism in Nebraska.
View the executive report. (22M pdf)
View the full report. (5M pdf)
DOING HARD TIME:
Virtual exhibit online
John Falter's Jazz Portraits
See the exhibit online
See the exhibit online
Depression Era Quilts in Nebraska
See the exhibit online
Norfolk Regional Center Cemetery Records, 1888-1954 (pdf)
New record online, valuable to family historians.
Check out the new Probate Records Research at the Nebraska State Historical Society, recently added to the Library/Archives publication series.
Researching Your Nebraska Property (pdf) 
A "How To" manual for National Register and all other applications.
Read complete Nebraska History articles online!
We're posting award-winning articles from past issues. Read about the brutal winter of 1948-49, the infamous Sheedy murder trial of 1891, or Sen. Ken Wherry's 1950s crusade to rid the government of homosexuals.... More than forty articles are posted so far.
Wyuka Cemetery Interments, (Lincoln, Ne.) 1877 - Feb. 1881 "Those Who Slumber" (pdf)
These listings predate the Wyuka burial cards.
Access the Nebraska Public Documents web site, launched in October 2007. It includes reports from 1891 to 1929 and is a keyword searchable collection of digitized historic reports of Nebraska constitutional officers and state agencies.
Nebraska newspapers arranged by town name.
A new index in PDFs will help you find Nebraska newspapers on microfilm.
