Nevada State Library and Archives

Finding Famous People

• Memorials to Nevada Supreme Court Justices
• Biographies of Nevada’s Senators and Congressmen  (Biographical Directory of the US Congress)
• Nevada's Governors
• Nevada's First Ladies
• Nevada Bibliography of Bibliographies - A list of bibliographies on Nevada history topics.  Annotated with Nevada State Library catalog numbers.
• Biographical Files Index (Nevada Historical Society)  - under construction
• National Archives microfilm of Federal records about Nevada  - Microfilmed historic records of the U.S. Government related to Nevada.  Includes records of Nevada and Utah Territorial government, the Office of Indian Affairs, Indian census rolls, Sarah Winnemucca, U.S. Population Censuses for Nevada, Nevada based military correspondence, and Nevada Civil War-era service files.  Dates range from 1850-1940; bulk dates are  1860-1880.  Copies of these microfilms are in the Nevada State Library.
• Mr. Lincoln’s Virtual Papers
• Inmate Case Files (Nevada State Prison Index)
• Ten Famous Cases of the Nevada Supreme Court
• Divorcing Myth From Truth: Mary Pickford's Divorce
• Red Light Legend and Lore: Julia Bulette
• Guides to Collections and Subjects (UNR)
• Edna Purviance 
• Mark Twain Quotes and Newspaper Articles
• Howard Hickson's Histories
• The Nevada Observer Reading Room - Scanned, historic documents related to Nevada history,including state and county histories, travel narratives, literature, and the U.S. Senate Kefauver Crime Committee reports.
• John Muir Digital Collection at the Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific

Photo credit:  Bertha Rafetto, author of the Nevada state song, Home Means Nevada.  n.d.  Courtesy of the Nevada State Archives.

Finding Ordinary People 

• Nevada Online Census Database 
• Nevada Legislators   Information booklet about Nevada Legislators from 1861-2011, compiled by the Research Library of the Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau
• Civil War Muster Rolls, Nevada Volunteers, Index
• Stepping Up To The Bar: Female Attorneys In Nevada
• Search the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
• Civic Leaders of Tonopah and Goldfield, Nevada, 1906
• Nevada State Prison Index -- Inmate Case Files
• People from White Pine County, Nevada
• Sheepherders of Northern Nevada   In this online exhibit the story of sheepherders of Northern Nevada is richly told in photographs, tree carvings, art, interviews, videos, music, books and articles.
• Nevada Test Site Oral History Project A University of Nevada, Las Vegas project, this is a comprehensive program dedicated to documenting, preserving and disseminating the remembered past of persons affiliated with and affected by the Nevada Test Site during the the era of nuclear testing.
• Howard Hickson's Histories
• Letters from Barbara Gates, Women's Army Corp (Nevada State Museum and Historical Society) - Virtual museum exhibit of photographs and manuscripts documenting Gates' experience in the WAC.
• The Nevada Observer Reading Room - Scanned, historic documents related to Nevada history, including state and county histories, travel narratives, literature, and the U.S. Senate Kefauver Crime Committee reports.
• Nevada Marriage Index from the Brigham Young University-Idaho Family History Center, for some Nevada counties from 1862-1931 (not all dates for all places)