Nevada County Genealogical Society Research Policy

To help you find your Nevada County ancestors, NCGS volunteers will do limited research of records available within the Society's library collection, currently limited (but growing):

 

Type of Data		Available for time period:
Birth Index	. . . . . .	1873 -
Marriage Index, Brides	. . . . . .	1856 - 1996
Marriage Index, Grooms	. . . . . .	1856 - 1996
Death Index	. . . . . .	1873 - 1996
Mortuary Records	. . . . . .	April 1877 - December 1928; 1940-1959 (note: may be buried here, in family plots for example, even though death occurred out of the area)

We will search in these NCGS materials for up to 1 hour for $15.00. Up to 5 photocopies may be included in that charge. We will notify you if additional pages are available. Additional photocopies cost $0.50 each. We search in the Foley Library (Nevada County Historical Library) collection. If we feel your research requires more than one hour, or if the information is not available in these collections, we will send you a list of professional researchers in the area and/or the address of the facility holding the information. In that case, your check will be returned.

Online Requests - Guidelines:

1. Specify the record(s) to be searched from the list above. Include the time frame and relevant name(s) and documents.  Providing additional details about the individual or family may also be helpful to us.

2. E-mail your request to: N. Sauers

3. You will be billed for search fees as outlined above.

Other resources include land records, mining claims and indexes, city and county directories, cemeteries and mortuaries, newspapers, mines and geology (including information about specific mines in the area), and post offices.  A detailed list of these record collections will be sent to you on request. Please include SASE. Mail your request for the List of Record Collections to:

There is no guarantee that your ancestors appear in the records.

Revised 30 January 2008