Welcome to the
  John A. Stahl Library         
      
 330 No. Colfax, West Point, NE  68788    402-372-3831


Leila Stahl Buffett Genealogy Center
   
The Leila Stahl Buffet Genealogy Center is one of the newest centers in the state of Nebraska.  Since it was opened in the fall of 1997, the Center has grown in resources and use.  The Sunshine Lady Foundation established and generously funds the Leila Stahl Buffet Genealogy Center.  Wynona Behling is coordinator for the Center and may be reached at <behlneb@gpcom.net>  While housed in the John A. Stahl Library, library staff members are not available for genealogical research.  The Center is opened during regular library hours. 
    Resources include:
        State-of-the-art digital microfilm reader
        Genealogy computer
        Microfilms, including:
            Early county court records
            Naturalization records
            Marriage records, 1900-1920
            County census records, 1860-1920
            School enrollment records
            West Point newspapers, 1871-present
            Wisner newspaper,
            Beemer newspaper,
            Bancroft newspaper,
            Nebraska Volksblatt (German), 1879-1916
        Reference CD's include:
         
    AUSTRALIAN VITAL RECORDS INDEX – 1788 – 1905
                     1881 BRITISH CENSUS AND NATIONAL INDEX – INCLUDES
                            ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES, CHANNED ISLANDS, ISLE OF MAN
                             AND ROYAL NAVY
                     1880 UNITED STATES CENSUS AND NATIONAL INDEX
                     SCANDINAVIA VITAL RECORDS INDEX – INCLUDES DENMARK, FINLAND, NORWAY,
                            & SWEDEN  
                     VITAL RECORDS INDEX WESTERN EUROPE – INCLUDES ALPINE, BENELUX, FRENCH, 
                             GERMAN, ITALIAN AND SPANISH REGIONS 
                      SAR REVOLUTIONARY WAR GRAVES REGISTER – 2000ed. 
                      PERSI 2000 – PERIODICAL SOURCE INDEX
                      FAMILY FINDER INDEX: VOL. 2: G-N
                      SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX: UNITED STATES, 1937-1996
                      FAMILY TREE MAKER ARCHIVES – PRE-1600 TO THE PRESENT 
                      FIRST FAMILIES OF THE U.S.; INDIVIDUAL TREES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
                            MANY ROYAL LINES AND NOBILITY OF EUROPE;  FIRST AND LAST NAMES,
                            DATES OF BIRTH, MARRIAGE, AND DEATH, AND RELATIONSHIPS OF FAMILY
                            MEMBERS
                      CENSUS INDEX: COUNTY LONDONDERRY, 1831 & COUNTY CAVAN, 1841
                      FEDERAL PENSIONERS’ ROLL OF 1883 (Heritage Quest)
                      GENEALOGICAL RECORDS: IRISH SOURCE RECORDS 1500-1800
                      MARRIAGE RECORDS: SELECTED U.S./INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE RECORDS,
                            1560-1900
                      PASSENGER AND IMMIGRATION LISTS INDEX, 1500-1900 (2000 UPDATE)
                      PASSENGER AND IMMIGRATION LISTS: GERMANS TO AMERICA, 1850-1874
                      PASSENGER AND IMMIGRATION LISTS: GERMANS TO AMERICA, 1875-1888
                      PASSENGER AND IMMIGRATION LISTS: IRISH IMMIGRANTS TO NORTH AMERICA
                            NORTH AMERICA, 1803-1871
                      PASSENGER AND IMMIGRATION LISTS: IRISH TO AMERICA 1846-1865 
                      IMMIGRATION RECORDS: SCOTTISH IMMIGRANTS TO NORTH AMERICA, 1600-1800
                      TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES: LEWIS’S GAZETTEERS OF ENGLAND, IRELAND,
                            AND SCOTLAND
                      INDEX OF IRISH WILLS: 1484-1858
                      FAMILY TREE SUPER BUNDLES: INCLUDES VOLUMES 3-67
                      BRITISH IN THE U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS – 1870   
                      EUROPEANS IN THE U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS – 1870
                      GERMANS IN THE U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS – 1870
                      IRISH IN THE U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS – 1870
                      SCANDINAVIANS IN THE U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS – 1870
                      FROM BREMEN TO AMERICA: THE IMMIGRATION EXPERIENCE
                            (A film by Diethellm Knauf and Ulrich Scholz)
                      FAMILY TREE MAKER’S FAMILY ARCHIVES: U.S. CENSUS BUNDLE 1607-1880
                      BUNDLE OF 8 CD’S: SCHLICKBERND FAMILY:  GENEALOGY AND PHOTOGRAPHS
                      MILITARY RECORDS: WORLD WAR II & KOREAN CONFLICT OVERSEAS INTERMENTS
                      EARLY TENNESSEE SETTLERS: 1700-1900
                      THE GENEALOGIST’S ALL-IN-ONE ADDRESS BOOK
                      INTERNATIONAL LAND RECORDS: TITLE APPLOTMENT BOOKS 18230-1838
                      EARLY ALABAMA, ARKANSAS, AND MISSISSIPPI SETTLERS, 1700-1800
                      EARLY OHIO SETTLERS, 1700-1900
                      IMMIGRATION RECORDS: SCOTTISH IMMIGRANTS TO NORTH AMERICA 1600-1800
                      LAND RECORDS: KENTUCKY, 1774-1924
                      NEW ORLEANS, PASSENGER AND IMMIGRATION LISTS 1820-1850
                      INDEX TO GRIFFITH’S VALUATION OF IRELAND, 1848-1864
                      ILLINOIS VITAL RECORDS: MARRIAGES 1791-1900
                      INDIANA VITAL RECORDS: SELECTED COUNTIES & YEARS
                      IOWA VITAL RECORDS: MARRIAGES 1835-1900
                      KENTUCKY VITAL RECORDS: DEATHS 1911-1993
                      KENTUCKY VITAL RECORDS: MARRIAGES 1780-1920
                      MISSOURI VITAL RECORDS: MARRIAGES 1767-1900
                      MISSOURI VITAL RECORDS: DEATHS SELECTED COUNTIES & YEARS
                      NORTH CAROLINA VITAL RECORDS: DEATHS 1968-1996
                      NORTH CAROLINA: MARRIAGES SELECTED COUNTIES & YEARS
                      OHIO VITAL RECORDS: MARRIAGES SELECTED COUNTIES
                      VIRGINIA VITAL RECORDS: BIRTHS 1656-1896 (SELECTED COUNTIES)
                      VIRGINIA VITAL RECORDS: DEATHS 1660-1896 (SELECTED COUNTIES)

       Numerous books, maps, church records, veterans' records, Cuming County cemetery records, marriage records (1860-1900), 'how-to' books and tapes on genealogy, historical resources and more.