Nevada Archives, Societies & Publications

It is a good idea to familiarize personally with just about any repository in Nevada that you simply might travel to by communicating with to the best suited archive or library in advance.

Most, if not all, Nevada repositories have written and published content that present its collections as well as research policy.

Nevada archives and historical organizations usually have On-line sites that provide equivalent details. Several also contain down loadable data for some or parts of their collections.

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List of Nevada Archives
List of Nevada Libraries & Museums
List of Nevada Historical & Genealogical Societies
Regional and State Societies
County, Township and City Societies
Religious and Ethnic Societies
Nevada Newspapers & Publications
Newspapers
Periodicals
Books

List of Nevada Archives

  • Nevada State Library and Archives, 401 N. Stewart St., Carson City, NV 89701; This institution includes the state’s library and archives, each with good research collections, although the archives concerns itself with statewide oriented research material. A library directory for the state can be found on its website under “Nevada Library Directory and Statistics.”
  • Las Vegas Nevada Regional Family History Center, 509 S. Ninth St. (no mail inquiries), Las Vegas, NV 89101; A branch of the FHL, it is large enough to collect a variety of materials for research pertaining to Nevada.

List of Nevada Libraries & Museums

List of Nevada Historical & Genealogical Societies

For almost every state there is a state genealogical society, a state genealogical council, or both.

In addition to their own work, Nevada groups many times help coordinate the efforts of local societies throughout the Nevada.

Their unique publications, newsletters and quarterlies, supplement those created through the area societies.

Regional and State Societies

County, Township and City Societies

  • Churchill County Historical Society and Museum , 1050 South Maine Street, Fallon, Nevada 89406; (775) 423-3677
  • Clark County Heritage Center, 1830 S. Boulder Highway, Henderson, NV 89002-8502; (702) 455-7955
  • Clark County Nevada Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 50569, Henderson NV 89016-0569
  • Douglas County Historical Society – Carson Valley Museum & Cultural Center, 1477 Old US Highway 395 S, Gardnerville, NV 89410; Phone:(775) 782-2555
  • Elko Genealogical Society, 3001 North Fifth Street, Elko NV 89801
  • Eureka Historical Society, P.O. Box 82, 31 S MAIN ST STE 1, Eureka, Nevada 89316; Phone: (775) 237-6006
  • Goldfield Historical Society, P.O. Box 393 , Goldfield, Nevada 89013; Phone: (775)485-3560
  • Lincoln County Historical Society, P.O. Box 515, Pioche NV 89043
  • Mineral County Historical Society, 400 10th Street, Box 1584, Hawthorne NV 89415
  • Sparks Heritage Society, 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks NV 89431
  • Wellington Historical Society, P.O. Box 36, Wellington NV 89444
  • White Pine Historical Society (inactive)

Religious and Ethnic Societies

Nevada Newspapers & Publications

Nevada Genealogical publications (magazines, newsletters, periodicals, books, etc.) contain all types of invaluable information about specific ancestors, whole lineages and families, places in time, and about all sorts of genealogical records and repositories.

The University of Nevada in both Las Vegas and Reno, as well as the Nevada Historical Society and Nevada State Library, have many different microfilmed newspapers from various cities across the state.

A database inventory of those newspapers can be found on the website of the University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries.

It can be researched according to title, county, and city by researchers. Links to current newspapers and indexes can also be found on that website.

In 1858, the Territorial Enterprise was founded in Genoa, but it was later moved. First it was based in Carson City and, later, moved to Virginia City, where it stayed. Many articles in the Territorial Enterprise were about mining or politics, but there were also several literary pieces published in its pages, particularly by Mark Twain.

The Enterprise was replaced in Carson City by the Silver Age. Then, in 1863, the Daily Independent was founded in that same area.

However, by October of 1864 it no longer existed. Another short-lived publication in that area was the Daily Evening Post. Many papers in Nevada changed locations several times or ended as quickly as they began.

Newspapers

Periodicals

Genealogical journals provide you with plenty of sources of information and facts, they are generally overlooked by genealogy and family history researchers and genealogist in looking around for family history.

Many regional and county genealogical and/or historical societies produce periodicals which have records relating to the region or vicinity they operate.

Frequently these publications have articles involving records that are not obtainable somewhere else.

  • Nevada Historical Society Quarterly is published by the Nevada Historical Society. The Nevada Historical Society’s website has an online index to this publication by author, title, and subject.
  • The Prospector, published since 1976 by Clark County Genealogical Society.

Books