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NEGenWeb Project
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Published by the Nebraska Genealogical Societly; issued in quarterly number's at two dollars a year; single copies severty-five cents.
The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record is a magazine of History and Genealogy. Manucscripts (sic), data and queries upon these subjects are solicited and will be given careful consideration.
Contributors should attach to their manuscripts their full names together with the authority for the statements made therein. Address all correspondence of the managing editor.
Note: The original publication had no table of contents.
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Bible of Dr. David Clark Hilton (NO title on extract)
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OFFICERS
President, Mrs. C. R. Peterson, University Place, Nebr.
Secretary, Miss Mabel Lindly, 1715 So. 20th St., Lincoln, Nebr.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. F. Simpson, Havelock, Nebr.
Librarian, Mrs. C. S. Paine, State Historical Society, Lincoln, Nebr.EDITORIAL STAFF Miss Mabel Lindly, Managing Editor
Mrs. H. B. Marshall Mrs. C. H. JenkinsGENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
C. C. Waldo, Grand Hotel, Lincoln, Nebr.
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The period has arrived in this great mid western state of Nebraska when an awakened and growing interest is felt in the pursuit of genealogical research, and when the practical importance, both to individuals and society, of the knowledge which is obtained by such research, begins to be appreciated.To further genealogical investigation a society has been formed in Nebraska with head quarters in Lincoln known as the Nebraska Genealogical Society. The charter members include men and women, well known in educational and patriotic work in Nebraska, among, whom are: General George H. Hastings. Crete; Mayor Hans Warkow, Crete; Mrs. C. F. Spencer, State Regent, Daughters of the American Revolution, North Platte; Dr. David C. Hilton, Lincoln; Hon. Chas. H. Sloan, Geneva; Mrs. Victor F. Clark. Diller; Mrs. R. J. Kilpatrick, Beatrice; Dr. A. A. Ashby, Fairmont; Mrs. E. E. Correll, Hebron; Mrs. E. H. Wescott, Plattsmouth; Hon. George A. Williams, Fairmont; Miss Margaret E. Haughawout, Geneva; Mrs. J. J. Stubbs, Omaha.
The purpose of the society is to collect genealogical material and to make it available to all who desire to pursue the search for family history. This organization will be made the repository of perishable records of local history; vital statistics; manuscripts; etc. This material will be cared for in the fire proof vault of the Nebraska State Historical Society and will be available to all who wish to make use of it.
Dr. Henry Stiles, an old time genealogist of long experience says "Genealogy is the science of personal identification. It has for its object the discovery and permanent establishment, by proofs and evdence, which would be conclusive in any court of law, of the identity of the individual,both in his relations to those who have preceded him and to those who may succeed him in his own particular family line, as well as in his relations to those belonging to collateral lines of the general family of which he and they are members."
It is not until very recent years that complele records of births, deaths and marriages have been kept in any of our towns or states. What records we do find we should appreciate as havinig been kept voluntarily. Our ancestors were far too busy with other affairs of greater consequence to their own hard existence to give much time or attention to the keeping of records for the convenience of the future. They were struggling with the forces of nature to wrest a bare subsistence from the soil. In the New England states, New York, Pennsylvania, they were pushing new settlements west and north, bringing up large families of children in the wilderness. The land had first to be cleared of the forest and the corn planted
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among the stumps or the prairie sod had to be broken and a sharp lookout kept at all times for Indians. Housed in log or sod houses in the far regions of the frontier country, beset on all sides by wild beasts and still more savage Indians, little time could be given to the keeping of records.One of the great obstacles to successful genealogy is the difficulty of tracing families in their movements from town to town. This is something that never was of record and is not today. Our record system would be vastly improved by the enactment of a law requiring that before any person moved his residence from a town he should file with the county clerk a statement of his intention, stating his name, names of his family, place to which they are going and date of removal. The same law should require him to file similar information on his arrival with the county clerk of the town to which he goes.
The wonderful activity in genealogical research which has prevailed for the last fifteen years is due largely to the hereditary societies, composed of descendants of those who took part in some of the great events in American History like the Revolution. The Colonial Wars; or have descent from the Mayflower passengers, or who settled in this country during its earliest years. Such societies were founded. nominally, for the making and preservation of historical and genealogical records and thereby to foster in the hearts of the present and future generations a respect for the flag and a love of country by holding up to them the heroic deeds and motives of their forefathers, and the sufferings and hardships they endured in establishing the government under which we now live.
These organizations have done an immense amount of good in patriotic education and Americanization. They deserve far more credit than the public seems willing to allow them. Many people are able to see in them little more than a manifestation of personal vanity, a desire to prove one's self a little better than his fellow man or woman. This element does certainly sometimes exist but only rarely and we should be able to see the great good the patriotic organizations have accomplished. Few can belong to the Sons and Daughters of tbe American Revolution or similar societies without learning more of the history of the Revolution than they ever knew before.
It is no longer necessary to apologize for genealogy. Webster says "He that hath no regard for his ancestors does not deserve to be remembered by his posterity."
Membership in the Nebraska Genealogical Society is open to those who are interested in Genealogical and Historical research. It is in no sense a social club. The dues of the Society are $2.00 a year. This includes a subscription to the magazine and two genealogical charts, one of which is to be filled out and returned to the Society for permanent record.
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For those who are especially interested in this work and wish to contribute to its success a sustaining membership has been established at a cost $5.00 a year. Sustaining members are entitled to the magazine, charts, and their names will be printed each quarter upon the front page of the magazine. Any data which they wish to have published will receive first consideration.
NANCE FAMILY The following birth records are taken from a Bible now owned by Mrs. Walter L. Anderson. daughter of the late Albinus C. Nance, former governor of Nebraska. Mrs. Anderson recently came into possession of this Bible through the courtesy of Mrs. M. C. Stonecipher, wife of the minister of Hopewell church near Unadilla, Nebraska, who happened to mention to Mrs. Anderson that the Bible used in this church chronicles births of a Nance family. It proved to be the family record of ancestors of Mr. Albinus C. Nance, and Hopewell Church voted to present Bible to Mrs. Anderson in exchange for a very handsome book purchased by the latter. How the Nance family Bible came to be in the possession of Hopewell Church is a mystery. It is quite evident that the writer of the Nance family history, did not have access to this old Bible.
The following births were recorded:Nance, William b. Nov. 2, 1784.
Nance, Nancy b. Oct. 17, 1785.
Nance, Dorothy S. b. Mch. 14, 1805.
Nance, Clement b. Sept. 14, 1807.
Nance, John b. Dec. 8, 1809.
Nance, Mariah b. Mch. 8, 1812.
Nance, William H. b. Dec. 24, 1814.
Nance, Nancy b. Apr. 12, 1828.
Nance, Mary I. b. Mch. 18, 1817.
Nance, Hiram b. Sept. 23, 1822.
Nance, Amanda I. b. Jan. 26, 1825.
Nance, Minerva A. b. May 9, 1827.
JINDRA CEMETERY The Jindra Cemetery, laid out in 1873, was known as Maple Grove Cemetery. It is situated on the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 2, township 7, north of range 4, east of the 6th P. M.
