Dawson County, Nebraska:
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Projects

• Dawson County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Dawson County NEGenWeb      (Source: Legacy USGenWeb)
• Dawson County NEGenWeb Project      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Buffalo County, NE  to the east
• Custer County, NE  to the north
• Frontier County, NE  to the southwest
• Gosper County, NE  to the south
• Lincoln County, NE  to the west
• Phelps County, NE  to the southeast

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Dawson Co, Nebraska, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Dawson County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Dawson County GEDCOM Index 

Cemeteries

• Dawson County  Nebraska Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Dawson County Cemeteries      (Source: ePodunk)
• Dawson County Cemeteries      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Dawson County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Dawson County Cemetery Registration      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• Nebraska Gravestones  Dawson County
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)

Census Records and Indexes (28)

Directories

• Nebraska State Gazetteer, Business Directory and Farmers List for 1890-91      (Source: USGenWeb)

History

• Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska  Dawson County, Nebraska     (Source: The Kansas Collection)
• Dawson County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Dawson County  Nebraska Association of County Officials
• Dawson County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• History of Dawson County 
• National Register of Historic Places 

• Churches and Other Religious Institutions

  • Primitive Baptist Churches  Church and Family History Assistance     (Source: The Primitive Baptist Library of Carthage)

• Histories of specific towns and townships (10)

• Tornados, Blizzards, Floods, World's Fairs and other events

  • Dakota, Dawes, Dawson, Deuel, Dixon, Dodge, Douglas and Dundy County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Dawson County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Gothenberg, NE Rear End Train Collision, Mar 1913      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Lexington, NE Grain Dust Explosion, Jan 1979      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Lexington, Nebraska Weather History      (Source: Weather Underground)

Introduction and Guides

• Cyndi's List of Nebraska locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• Dawson County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Dawson County      (Source: CinnamonToast Genealogy)
• Dawson County Records      (Source: The Records Project)
• Dawson County Resources      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Dawson County, Nebraska Public Records      (Source: Public Records Search)
• Dawson Genealogy      (Source: GenDir)
• Dawson Public Records Resources & Searches      (Source: RecordsBase.com)
• FamilySearch Wiki Research Guide      (Source: Family History Library)

Land Records

• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Cozad Museums 
• Dawson County Historical Museum 
• Dawson County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles  Lexington, Nebraska
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Dawson County, Nebraska     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• Robert Henri Museum  & Historical Walkway
• Sod House Museum  Gothenburg, Nebraska
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• Dawson County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Dawson County, NE Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• NEDAWSON-L Dawson County genealogy

  • NEDAWSON-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • NEDAWSON-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • NEDAWSON-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (40)

Military Records and Histories

• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Dawson County, Nebraska     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Dawson County     (Source: Family History Library)

• World War I

  • Nebraska WWI Draft Cards Index  Dawson County     (Source: Nebraska State Historical Society Library & Archives)
  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Dawson County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Dawson County, Nebraska  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Dawson County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Dawson County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through Dawson County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Dawson County     (Source: The Library of Congress)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel  Gothenburg and Curtis, Nebraska
• Dawson County, Nebraska Obituary Collection      (Source: Genealogy Buff)
• Lexington Clipper-Herald  Recent obituaries
• Lexington Clipper-Herald      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Lexington, Nebraska Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• O'Bits of Nebraska  Actual images of Nebraska obituaries from small town newspapers prior to 1930
• Reynolds-Love Funeral Home  Lexington, Nebraska
• Tri-City Tribune 
• Tri-City Tribune  Cozad, NE     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (12)

School Records and Histories

• Overton, NE High School Class of 1898      (Source: Old-Yearbooks.com)

Societies

• Bonneville Chapter  Lexington     (Source: Wayback Machine)
• Lexington Genealogical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (40)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Dawson County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Dawson County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Dawson County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Dawson County, Nebraska     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

• Dawson County Marriages      (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Dawson County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Dawson County, Nebraska     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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