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Lutheran Church

Nebraska files:

"Around the Home Table" - Rev. J. C. Jacoby 1892 (NOT a history book; volume about doctrine, practice of Lutheran faith in the home.) Reproduced March 2003

Jubilee Album - Swedish Ev. Lutheran Fridhem Congregation of Funk, Nebraska, 1879-1919 by B. E. Bengtson (Nov 2002)

"A Miracle of the Prairies" - A Story of Bethphage Mission at Axtell, NE, 1944

German Lutheran Church - 1916, newspaper report of statewide conference from Plattsmouth Journal (Thanks to Becky Applegate)

 

Adams County - Brief historical notes for 3 churches
Todten (Death) Register 1891-1909: Christ Lutheran Church, located Sec. 20, Verona Twp., Adams County, NE.
     from NSGS NE Ancestree Vol 2, no. 2, page 80 - Fall 1979

Boone County
Zion Evangelical Church, Albion, NE

Buffalo County Churches
     
St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Peake - Riverdale, Nebraska: Records transcribed for the Buffalo County website.
     Memoirs of a Pastor's Wife by Mrs. W. J. Gans, of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Watertown, rural Amherst: 1901-1904
     Zion Lutheran Church, Shelton, Nebraska - Buffalo County website by Mona Houser.
     The First 100 Years, First Lutheran Church, 1884-1984 - Buffalo County website by Mona Houser (Mardos Memorial Library)

Clay County
     St. Paul Lutheran Church (Glenvil, NE) - Baptism records, 1879-1900 (from NSGS NE Ancestree, Vol. 2 no. 4)
     St. Paul Lutheran Church (Glenvil, NE) - Baptism records, 1900-1913 (from NSGS NE Ancestree, Vol. 4 no. 1); Confirmations, 1884-1912 (from NSGS NE Ancestree, Vol 4, no 2).

Deuel County

Lutheran Cemetery - from NSGS NE Ancestree, Vol. 20 no. 2, page 59

Jefferson County

St. John Lutheran Church, Daykin, Jefferson County - NSGS NE Ancestree, Volume One, no 3, p 139 Winter 1978
     (Church History, Confirmation Classes 1890-1912)

Madison County

Christ Lutheran Confirmands, Norfolk, NE - NSGS NE Ancestree, Vol. 2 no. 3

Phelps County
Evangelical Lutheran Bethel Church cemetery - NSGS NE Ancestree, Vol. One, no. 1, p 21

Bethel Lutheran Church, Index of members - NSGS NE Ancestree, Vol. 7 no. 2, p 59

Thayer County

Lutheran High School and Business College, Deshler, NE - diploma, class roll for 1924, etc. from NSGS NE Ancestree, Vol. 18 no. 2 p 50.

Biography of the Rev. Frederick SPRIEGEL (served in Cass & Platte Counties) - Pioneer Stories of Cass County, Vol. 1, no 1, p 6

Biography of the Rev. David H. SCHULTZ (served in Butler, York and Cheyenne Counties, NE) from

"Compendium ... Western NE"

From - Memorial and Biographical Record ... Butler, Polk, Seward, York and Fillmore Counties ...
     Fillmore County - Rev. Frederick Schwarz, Lutheran
     Seward County - Zion's Congregation, German Evangelical Lutheran Church

Obit
The Rev. Lawrence A. Sundell (1927-2003) See Fremont Tribune archives for 24 or 26 Dec 2003.


Other Resources:

Information about churches all across America associated with Augustana Synod and College in Rock Island, Illinois.
Here are some contacts for additional information on Swedish ancestors.
(
From MISSING LINKS, Vol. 7, No. 25, 23 June 2002 http://www.petuniapress.com)

Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center
Augustana College, 639 38th Street, Rock Island, IL 61201-2296
Tel: 309-794-7204 Fax: 309-794-7443 Email: sag@augustana.edu
http://www.augustana.edu/administration/SWENSON/
The Web page includes an index of personal papers of Swedish immigrants held in their archives.

Augustana College Library
Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, 61201
http://www.augustana.edu/library/



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