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Nevada is a state
located in the western region of the United
States. The capital is Carson City and the largest
city is Las Vegas. The state's
nickname is the "Silver State," due to
the large number of silver deposits that were discovered and mined
there. In 1864, Nevada became the 36th state to enter the union, and the phrase
"Battle Born" on the state flag reflects the state's entry on the
Union side during the American Civil War. Its
first settlement was called Mormon Station. On March 2,
1861, the Nevada Territory separated
from the Utah Territory and adopted
its current name, shortened from Sierra Nevada (Spanish
for "snowy range"). The separation of the territory from
Utah was important to the federal government because of the Nevada
population's political leanings, while the population itself was keen to be
separated because of animosity (and sometimes violence) between the
non-Mormons who dominated Nevada, and the Mormons
who dominated the rest of the Utah
territory.[citation needed]
Animosity between non-Mormon settlers and Mormons
was particularly high after the Mountain Meadows massacre of
1857 and the Utah
War in 1857-58. The
1861 southern boundary is commemorated by Nevada Historical Markers 57
and 58 in Lincoln and Nye counties. Eight days prior to the presidential election of
1864, Nevada became the 36th state in the union. Statehood was
rushed to the date of October 31 to help ensure Abraham
Lincoln's reelection on November 8 and post-Civil War Republican
dominance in Congress,[8] as
Nevada's mining-based economy tied it to the more industrialized Union. Nevada achieved its current southern
boundaries on May 5, 1866 when it absorbed the portion of Pah-Ute
County in the Arizona Territory west of
the Colorado River, essentially all of present day Nevada south of the 37th parallel. The transfer
was prompted by the discovery of gold in the area, and it was thought by
officials that Nevada would be better able to oversee the expected population
boom. This area includes most of what is now Clark County. In 1868 another part of the western Utah
Territory, whose population was seeking to avoid Mormon dominance,
was added to Nevada in the eastern part of the state, setting the current
eastern boundary. Mining shaped Nevada's economy for many
years (see Silver mining in Nevada).
When Mark
Twain lived in Nevada during the period described in Roughing
It, mining had led to an industry of speculation and immense
wealth. However, both mining and population declined in the late 19th
century. However, the rich silver strike at Tonopah
in 1900, followed by strikes in Goldfield
and Rhyolite, again put Nevada's
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Nevada State Genealogy Society ·
Nevada State Historical Society ·
Nevada State Museum and Historical Society ·
Northeastern Nevada Genealogical Society ·
Clark County Genealogy Society |
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Albany
Big Horn
Campbell
Carbon
Converse
Crook
Fremont
Goshen
Hot Springs
Johnson
Laramie
Lincoln
Natrona
Niobrara
Park
Platte
Sheridan
Sublette
Sweetwater
Teton
Uinta
Washakie
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The
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To find out more about
each surname listed above click on the corresponding LINK. Additional information
regarding these surnames may also be found at: |
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Free Genealogy Surname Search Help from Google |
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Use this free genealogy site to help you
get the best genealogy searches from Google™
by using your family tree, for your research. It
will create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks" |
that will
likely improve your results.
The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google and
the Internet to find ancestry information about this or any other Surname. |
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The following named counties are associated with
the history of our DIRECT ancestors.
To select a specific ancestral county, click on the following link.
Here you will find additional links to our county pages where you can obtain
information about our family gen-sites, images of localities, and surnames of
persons, in our database, who have lived in the selected county. |
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The following Links will take you to
gazetteers that identify places within this U.S. State. These resources feature profiles of cities,
towns, neighborhoods and subdivisions.
In addition this site contains maps, data and directions for a wide variety
of physical, cultural and historic features. |
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Nevada Cities -
profiles of 628 Nevada cities,
towns & neighborhoods Nevada Physical
Features such as lakes, islands &
steams Nevada Cultural Features such as schools,
parks, hospitals & airports Nevada Civil Features such as Native Areas
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NVGenWeb Project
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Clicking on
a Link
(below) will take you to the County’s website. Here you will find additional links to more
information specific to that location.
The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects, at the national level, that
were created to collect and disseminate data that goes beyond county and
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Bullfrog
(see Nye) Carson (see Carson City, Churchill, Douglas, Esmeralda, Humboldt,
Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey, Washoe) |
Humboldt
(Utah Territory) (see Churchill, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Pershing) Lake (see Washoe) |
Ormsby - see
Carson City Pah-Ute - see Clark |
Rio
Virgin (see Clark) Roop (see
Washoe) Saint
Mary's (see Elko, Eureka, White Pine) |
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Wikipedia is a multilingual,
Web-based,
free-content
encyclopedia
project based mostly on anonymous contributions. Clicking on a Link (below) will take you to the Wikipedia
article about the county. Here you will find additional links to guide the
user to related pages with additional information. |
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The Google search engine button
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with additional information to assist with your research about this
U. S. State. |
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Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia ·
Free
Genealogy Search Help For Google ·
Linkpendium
> Genealogy > USA ·
Ancestry.com
(Reference Materials & Finding Aids) |
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Cyndi's List - United States Index ·
IGI
Batch Numbers - British Isles & North America ·
Libweb
- Libraries on the Web ·
50states.com - States and Capitals |
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The following Link will take you to our library of genealogy reference books that pertain to this U.S. State. Here you will find books about the history and records of this State, as well as its counties and other localities such as towns and churches. The collection also contains research works about State military units and personnel during America’s wars. In addition, there are resource texts about the ethnic and religious groups who settled in this State. |
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