Howard County, Nebraska Genealogy

United States Nebraska  Howard County

Howard County, Nebraska genealogy and family history research page. Guide to genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.

County Courthouse
Howard County Courthouse 612 Indian St. P.O. Box 25 St. Paul, NE 68873 Phone: 308.754.4343 County Judge has marriage, probate, court, land and naturalization records, 1872 and divorce records from 1873.

Parent County
1871--Howard County was created 1 March 1871 from Hall County. County seat: St. Paul

Neighboring Counties

 * Buffalo
 * Greeley
 * Hall
 * Merrick
 * Nance
 * Sherman
 * Valley

Lutheran

 * Records of the American Lutheran Church, St. Paul, in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).

Probate
Online Probate Records
 * 1806 – 1989 Nebraska Wills and Probate Records 1806-1989 at Ancestry.com — index and images $

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.