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for information will be answered by the Hooker County
Genealogical Society, PO Box 280, Mullen NE 69152-0280. Please
send SASE and initial research fee of $4. A list of available
documents and estimate of costs will be sent to you. A charge of
$4/hr is made for lengthy searches and $1/page of photocopy you
wish to purchase. Some booklets of Hooker County records are available for purchase. Membership in the
Hooker County Genealogical Society is $3/yr and entitles you to
quarterly newsletters, published queries, and your surnames
listed in the newsletter.
Research files in Hooker County Genealogical Society Holdings
include the following:
- Alphabetical List
of Surnames in the Hooker Co. Genealogical Soc.
Library 1991
- Alphabetical Surnames Index Card Files contain listing of
records available for research
- Alphabetical Surnames Vertical Folders contain clippings
from donated newspapers including birth and marriage
announcements, obituaries and funeral cards, and other
articles about individuals and families
- Ancestors Charts of Hooker County Genealogical Society
Membership
- List of States and Counties being searched by members of
Hooker County Genealogiical Society
Hooker County Genealogical Society Resources
available for purchase
Send orders to Hooker County Genealogical Society, PO Box
280, Mullen NE 69152. Include $2 for postage and handling.
- Alphabetical
List of Surnames, $3
- Land
Patents, Hooker Co, NE - Book One (36 pp.), $3.50; Book Two, $2; Book
Three, $2
List includes page, name, number and type, date and time.
- Marks
and Brands, Hooker Co, NE, $5
- Marriages
1890-1970, Hooker Co, NE - Book 1, $7; Book 2, $10
Book 1 was prepared by the Hooker County Genealogical Society in
1988. Marriage licenses numbered 1-333 issued from December 1889 to August
1923 were transcribed as they appeared in the County records. Information
includes marriage date, names, ages, birthplaces, residence, names of
parents, officiant, and witnesses.
Book 2 contains marriage licenses numbered 334-818 issued from
October 1923 to December 1970. Starting in 1968 additional information
includes whether living outside or inside city limits, education,
occupation, marital status and number of marriages, birthplace of parents.
- Naturalization
Records, Hooker Co, NE (9 pp.), $2
DECLARATION OF INTENT & PETITION FOR NATURALIZATION FROM HOOKER COUNTY
NE
Prepared in 1981 by the Hooker County Genealogical Society. Index of Names
and emigration information.
- School
Census 1889-1900, Hooker Co, NE, $2.50
- School
Attendance Registers 1900-1919, Hooker Co, NE (42 pp.), $4.50
List includes name, age, sex, grade, term beginning and end dates,
comments.
- 1900
Hooker County Federal Census List, $2.50
- 1910
Hooker County Federal Census List, $5
- Cedarview
Cemetery Record 1904–2000, $10
Book lists all marked
or known graves alphabetized by surnames. Birth dates, death dates, lot
location, parents and spouses are also given. A brief history, description of
the lot numbering system, and a diagram of the cemetery layout is included.
- Dry
Valley Cemetery Record, 75 cents
- Eclipse
Cemetery Record, $1
- Long's
Cemetery Record, 50 cents
- Virginia
Cemetery Record, 60 cents
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The
History of Hooker County 1889-2004
is available from Hooker Co. Historical
Society, $60 + $5 S&H if mailed
The Hooker County Historical Society
compiled this book to preserve the history of Hooker
County, South Cherry County and the surrounding area.
There are pictures and stories describing the Sandhills
communication and transportation, towns Hecla and Mullen,
businesses, schools, churches, organizations, health and
community services, recreation, armed forces, weather and
natural disasters, cemeteries, and items of notoriety.
Biographical sketches of families who have resided in
Hooker County are in alphabetical order by surname, many
including photographs. Poetry and artwork by local
residents enhance the section title pages. Surname
indexes are included.
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Birth Records in Hooker County Genealogical
Library Holdings
Marriage Records in Hooker County Genealogical
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Death Records in Hooker County Genealogical
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Obituaries in Hooker County Genealogical Library
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Cemetery Records in Hooker County Genealogical
Library Holdings
- ARNOLD NE CEMETERY, Tombstone Readings
- ASHBY NE CEMETERY Listings
- BROWNLEE NE CEMETERY Listing
(including Negro cemetery of DeWitty NE)
- CEDARVIEW CEMETERY RECORDS, Mullen NE
1904 to 2000 (Computer backup)
- DRY VALLEY CEMETERY RECORD (So. Cherry
Co. NE)
- ECLIPSE CEMETERY RECORD (So. Hooker
Co. NE)
- HYANNIS CEMETERY Book (Hyannis, Grant
Co., NE)
- LONG CEMETERY RECORD (So. Cherry Co.
NE)
- VIRGINIA CEMETERY RECORD (So. Cherry
Co. NE)
- MILLER CEMETERY LISTING OF BURIALS
1890 - 1976 (McPherson Co. NE)
- SENECA CEMETERY RECORDS (Seneca, NE
including JIMTOWN CEMETERY)
- HILLCREST CEMETERY RECORDS (Thedford,
NE) 1994
- WHITMAN CEMETERY LISTING (Whitman, NE)
also Survey or Curtis Cemetery
- Listing of Veterans Buried in
Cemeteries in Hooker County NE
- Misc. Burials in South Cherry Co.
& Grant Co. NE
- DOUGLAS County Nebraska CEMETERIES
1981
- OLD ELKHORN CEMETERY (Douglas Co. NE)
- CEMETERIES IN LANCASTER COUNTY, NE
(City of Lincoln, WYUKA Part I A-K (Vol. 5)
- CEMETERIES IN LANCASTER COUNTY, NE
(City of Lincoln, WYUKA Part II L-Z (Vol. 5)
- CEMETERIES IN LANCASTER COUNTY, NE
(Northwest Quarter - Vol. III)
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Census Records in Hooker County Genealogical
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Land and Tax Records in Hooker County Genealogical
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School Records in Hooker County Genealogical
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Newspaper Records in Hooker County Genealogical
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Miscellaneous Records in Hooker County
Genealogical Library Holdings
- ABSENT VOTERS POLL book 1930 to 1938
- Book I of Worlds War Record
(Discharges recorded in Hooker Co. Clerk's Office)
- CITY DIRECTORIES OF MULLEN, NE 1897, 1997
& 1992
- EARLY MARKS AND BRANDS 1892 to 1908
(Cattle & Horses)
- NATURALIZATIONS with Index
- NOTARY PUBLIC COMMISSION and BOND RECORD
- METHODIST CHURCH RECORDS - Mullen, NE.
(Baptisms, Marriages, Funerals) not typed
- MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSE NUMBERS BOOK -
Hooker County, Ne.
- CHERRY CO., NEBRASKA MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSE
DIRECTORY 1970, 1976, 1978, 1980.
- RESEARCH GUIDE TO GENEALOGICAL DATA IN
GRANT, CHERRY, HOOKER & THOMAS COUNTIES, NE.
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Family History Books in Hooker County Library
Holdings
- ANDERSSON, LEVIN, AND BJORN -- Fred
PEARSON
- Family Workbook - Ancestors &
Descendants of DANIEL BOYER AND SUZANNA DELP by Wayne
& Martha Osborne
- Direct Ancestors of SARAH ANN HUNTSMAN,
wife of HUGH B. BOYER by Martha Osborne
- Direct Ancestors of HUGH BOYER by Wayne
& Martha Osborne
- HUGH Sr. and MARGARET JAMES BOYER and
their Baseball Nine - Clifford S. BOYER
- A Family Tree of BOYER and LONG Families
- BRADLEY Family Computer Listings - by
Warren Conklin
- DANHAUER - LAND Family History 1611 to
1981 (donated by Lucille SCHMOKER)
- DICKINSON Research - 2 books from Bessie
Bradley Estate
- 200 Years of DUFURS - By Helen DUFURS
CASPER, 1979
- The Family of JAMES GARRETT and his wife
SUSANNAH (MASHBURN) GARRETT of NC, GA, AR Compiled by
Edna G. SIMPSON 1980
- GARRETT Family History - by Nina SCOTT
CLARK
- THE INDIANA YEARS 1903-1941 by Walter B.
HENDRICKSON
- HOCKERSMITH AND EVANS - by Joseph
HOCKERSMITH
- HOLCOMB - DOANE & HENKE - A family
History by Mary Alice HENKE
- Descendents of JAMES YONT JAMES &
ELIZABETH P. SCOTT (Family Workbooks) by Wayne &
Martha Osborne
- Pioneer History of CALVIN LONG family
- Computer Disks Genealogical listing of
LYNCH, GORDON, GARWOOD, & McINTYRE by Roland LYNCH
- Addditional Computer Disk (Family Tree
Maker) of LYNCH, GORDON, GARWOOD, McINTYRE & JONES by
Roland LYNCH
- LUTES Family Tree - by Earnestine Lutes
- The MORAN Family - Descendents of
HEZEKIAH, ROBERT MILTON, FRANCES PIERCE MORAN, and ALICE
GRACE MORAN WRIGHT - Donated by Alice GIER
- PEARMAN Family History - "THE
MELDING POT" - by Jean R. PEARMAN (Lost & a book
borrowed and photocopied and placed in General Library)
- 100 Years of PEARSON - compiled by Fred
J. PEARSON
- A Genealogy of AUGUSTIN REED, Sr. and
HANNAH HICKS HUMPHREYS - compiled by Grace HUMPHREY
WIESE, Lucille HUMPHREY BOGERT & Phyllis HUMPHREY
PARKER
- MOLLIE - The Journal of MOLLIE DORSEY
SANDFORD IN NE & CO Territories 1857-1866
- SEWARD & RELATED FAMILIES - by
George SEWARD
- SIMONSON Family History & Listing -
by Wanda SIMONSON
- The Past Made Present - History of the
SNIDER Family - by Ralph SNIDER
- House of STARR - A STARR Family History
(Loaned -Then returned to T.L. STARR)
- TAYLOR Family History - by Floy FLETCHER
- A CORRAL OF MEMORIES - by Merton
THOMPSON
- The RUDYS OF GOD'S HOUSE - by William
OSBORNE WINGARD
- VINTON Family Research - by Richard ROSS
(Vertical File)
- WILCOX, WILCOXSON Families of New
England - Compiled by Martha Scott Osborne (also Computer
Disks)
- The Direct Ancestors of MARILLA JAY,
wife of HARLOW MARTIN WILCOX -by Martha OSBORNE
- AARON WINBORN Herd Book - by Lewis A.
WINBORN 1981
- Family Workbooks & Genealogical
Records of Lessie Belle FERGUSON for BOYER, JOHNSON,
FERGUSON FAMILIES
- Osborn Family History - by Jackie Osborn
KOOPMAN
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Area History Books in the Hooker County
Genealogical Library Holdings
- History of ANTELOPE CO. NE Vol. 1, 1868 -
1985
- A SANDHILL CENTURY - CHERRY CO. NEBRASKA
HISTORY Vol. 1 & 2 1883 to 1983
- The MULLEN ROUNDUP - Local History of
Mullen, NE. 1884 to 1917
- HOOKER COUNTY, NEBRASKA - The First 100
years (1889 - 1989) Centennial History of Hooker County
and Surrounding Area
- History of DAWES CO., NEBRASKA - First 100
years (1985)
- The HAMILTON Murder Story 1908 at Mullen,
NE
- Prairie Pioneers of BOX BUTTE CO., NE - by
Mae MANION
- History of the ELKHORN VALLEY OF NEBRASKA
- an album of History and Biography
- DeWITTY - A Negro Settlement (Cherry Co.,
NE.- from NEBRASKALAND - June to Nov. 1988)
- POTLUCK POTPOURRI - CHERRY CO. HERITAGE
BOOK
- GRANT COUNTY NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS - Grant
Co., NE History 1980
- MASON CITY HISTORY BOOK (Mason City, NE
1886 - 1976)
- McPHERSON COUNTY Facts, Family &
Fiction (McPherson Co., NE History 1986)
- MERRICK COUNTY'S 100th Year, 1858 - 1958
(Nebraska)
- A Pictorial History of the Sandhills
(Thomas County, NE History)
- Troy's Journey by TROY CAUDILL
- North Country Vol. 1 (The old Town 1880-a
Book about Country North of Valentine, NE
- Index to Compendium
of Reminiscence and Biography of Western Nebraska; 6
pp.
Lists surnames and page numbers. Two copies of the book
are located in Valentine NE City Library.
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Research Helps in Hooker County Genealogical
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