Nebraska, Box Butte County Birth Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
This collection includes birth records from the county of Box Butte, Nebraska for the years 1885 – 2015. Included are birth certificates, delayed birth registrations (usually from home births), court-issued birth decrees, and witness affidavits.

What Can these Records Tell Me?
Birth records may contain the following information:


 * Birth date
 * Name at birth
 * Parents’ names
 * Parents’ residence

How Do I Search the Collection?
To begin your search it is helpful to know:


 * The name of your ancestor
 * The approximate year of birth
 * The names of the child's parents

View the Images
View images in this collection by visiting the :
 * 1) Select Record Category
 * 2) Select Record Type, Volume, and Year Range to view the images.

How Do I Analyze the Results?
Compare each result from your search with what you know to determine if there is a match. This may require viewing multiple records or images. Keep track of your research in a research log.

What Do I Do Next?
Whenever possible, view the original records to verify the information and to find additional information that might not be reported. These pieces of information can lead you to additional records and family members.

I Found Who I was Looking for, What Now?

 * Use the information to find other records such as marriage, census, church, land and death records.
 * Use the occupations to find employment or military records.
 * Use the information to establish a migration pattern and find additional family members.
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family.
 * Church Records often were kept years before government records were required and are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900.

I Can’t Find Who I’m Looking for, What Now?

 * Try viewing the original record to see if there were errors in the transcription of the name, age, residence, etc. Remember that there may be more than one person in the records with the same name.
 * Collect entries for every person who has the same surname. This list can help you identify possible relations that can be verified by records.
 * If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching records of a nearby locality in an area search.
 * Standard spelling of names typically did not exist during the periods our ancestors lived in. Try variations of your ancestor’s name while searching the index or browsing through images.
 * Remember that sometimes individuals went by nicknames or alternated between using first and middle names. Try searching for these names as well.
 * Search the indexes and records of Nebraska, United States Genealogy.
 * Search in the Nebraska Archives and Libraries.

Citing this Collection
Citations help you keep track of places you have searched and sources you have found. Identifying your sources helps others find the records you used.


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