TO MY  NEBRASKA  FAMILIES  RESEARCH PAGE    "We came here to this beautiful country in those early days, young, strong, healthy, filled with hope, energy and ambition.  Poor, it is true.  Oh! how poor in worldly goods, but rich beyond dreams in everything that makes life worth while.  I do not know how large a bank account some of the old settlers may have today.  I do not care, they will never be as rich as I felt, when I first settled on my homestead.  I remember the time when I did not have the money to buy a postage stamp.  I remember the hard winter, the drouth of 1894.  Then many obstacles to overcome.  We came to win the battle, and we did.  To what amounted those inconveniences, compared to the joy we felt, when we turned our long furrows of virgin sod, or planted our first fruit trees.  We were empire builders.  The future was ours."                                                                                                                 Jules Haumont                                                                                                                Custer Co Chief Golden Anniversery Edition CENSUS CEMETERIES CLAY CO Keppels CUSTER COUNTY Haumonts, Govaerts, Francois and Smets FURNAS COUNTY Gutzman, Karash, Tomalla KNUCKLES AND WEBSTER Jesperson/Japerson HOME PAGE MAIN INDEX FAMILY TREE

GETTING  TO  KNOW  NEBRASKA My favorite way to visit this site is to Brows by Subjects.  There are so many to choose from and they seem to go on forever.  "Sod Houses" was my first choice There are so many wonderful sites about the pioneers of Nebraska.  These two are simply two of my favorites, I seem to return to them often just to see if I missed something the last time I was there. This  is a site that I could spend hours in (and have).  It has so many links to go to but, my favorite is  "1862 the Homestead Act" , giving  such a wonderful picture of what it must have been like. THE  NEBRASKA  GENWEB The place to go for Genealogy in Nebraska