A land of vast prairies, Nebraska was admitted into the Union as the nation’s 37th state on 1 March 1867. The 16th largest state in the country, Nebraska is the 37th most populous.
If you are researching your ancestry from Nebraska, you will want to use GenealogyBank’s online NE newspaper archives: 42 titles to help you search your family history in the “Cornhusker State,” providing coverage from 1854 to Today. There are more than 76.6 million articles and records in our online Nebraska newspaper archives!
Dig deep into our online archives and search for historical and recent obituaries and other news articles about your Nebraska ancestors in these NE newspapers. Our Nebraska newspapers are divided into two collections: Historical Newspapers (complete paper) and Recent Obituaries (obituaries only).
Search Nebraska Newspaper Archives (1854 – 1983)
Search Nebraska Recent Obituaries (1996 – Current)
Here is a list of online Nebraska newspapers in the historical archives. Each newspaper title in this list is an active link that will take you directly to that paper’s search page, where you can begin searching for your ancestors by surnames, dates, keywords and more. The NE newspaper titles are listed alphabetically by city.
Did you know?
Our historical NE newspaper collection contains the Omaha Arrow which was the very first newspaper ever published in Omaha – back in 1854, when the Territory of Nebraska was first incorporated. Our NE archives also contain many old African American newspapers – for example, the Afro-American Sentinel was started by an ex-slave. Learn more at Wikipedia (see Print section).
| City | Title | Date Range* | Collection |
| Ashland | Ashland Gazette | 02/03/2011 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Beatrice | Beatrice Daily Sun | 06/10/2002 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Bellevue | Bellevue Leader | 02/27/2009 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Bloomington | Franklin County Guard | 08/30/1872 – 08/13/1874 | Newspaper Archives |
| Broken Bow | Custer County Chief | 10/04/2010 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Chadron | Chadron Record | 04/12/2005 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Columbus | Columbus Telegram | 09/19/1999 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| David City | David City Banner-Press | 09/13/2011 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Fremont | Fremont Tribune | 08/16/2000 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Gering | Gering Courier | 11/06/2008 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Grand Island | Grand Island Independent | 12/01/1997 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Gretna | Gretna Breeze | 05/13/2009 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Hemingford | Hemingford Ledger | 11/07/2008 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Kearney | Kearney Hub | 05/30/2005 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Lexington | Lexington Clipper-Herald | 06/23/2005 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Lincoln | Lincoln Journal Star | 06/01/1996 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Lincoln | Lincoln Journal Star: Web Edition Articles | 11/04/2003 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Nebraska City | Nebraska City News-Press | 02/09/2005 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Nebraska City | Daily Nebraska Press | 08/06/1868 – 12/28/1876 | Newspaper Archives |
| North Platte | North Platte Telegraph | 05/03/2004 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Omaha | Progress | 03/22/1890 – 03/07/1891 | Newspaper Archives |
| Omaha | Florence Courier | 09/23/1858 – 10/14/1858 | Newspaper Archives |
| Omaha | Omaha World-Herald | 08/24/1885 – 12/31/1983 | Newspaper Archives |
| Omaha | Enterprise | 08/10/1895 – 07/03/1897 | Newspaper Archives |
| Omaha | Omaha World-Herald | 09/04/2005 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Omaha | Omaha Morning Bee-News | 09/09/1935 – 09/09/1935 | Newspaper Archives |
| Omaha | Danske Pioneer | 10/17/1895 – 10/10/1901 | Newspaper Archives |
| Omaha | Omaha Star | 01/07/2011 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Omaha | Afro-American Sentinel | 02/22/1896 – 03/25/1899 | Newspaper Archives |
| Omaha | Omaha Herald | 10/30/1878 – 06/30/1889 | Newspaper Archives |
| Omaha | Tagliche Omaha Tribune | 06/25/1937 – 06/25/1937 | Newspaper Archives |
| Omaha | Omaha Arrow | 08/04/1854 – 10/20/1854 | Newspaper Archives |
| Papillion | Suburban Newspapers | 06/29/2005 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Papillion | Papillion Times | 01/27/2011 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Plattsmouth | Plattsmouth Journal | 05/02/2007 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Ralston | Ralston Recorder | 05/06/2009 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Schuyler | Schuyler Sun | 10/20/2011 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Scottsbluff | Star-Herald | 04/20/2005 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Syracuse | Syracuse Journal-Democrat | 03/06/2009 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Wahoo | Wahoo Newspaper | 02/01/2007 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Waverly | Waverly News | 04/21/2009 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| York | York News-Times | 03/08/2000 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
*Date Ranges may have selected coverage unavailable.
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