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Community History Archive Partner
Tekamah Public Library
Tekemah, Nebraska
Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Tekemah.
1874 to 2025Dates represented
See individual titles for available dates.
237,946Archive pages
Historical pages reported for this collection.
Explore local history
Discover the people, places, and stories of Tekemah, Nebraska.
Start with a family connection or familiar place in Tekemah, then explore the collection shared by Tekamah Public Library. Its twelve titles include material from 1874 to 2025.
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Selected titles
Selected titles from Tekamah Public Library include “Burt County Herald” and “The Weekly Burtonian”.
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Ways to explore
Explore a connection with Tekemah from more than one perspective, keeping each source’s time and purpose in view.
Let a useful question suggest the next one. Note what can be verified and what still needs a source. Sharing local history can connect generations around the places and experiences that matter to Tekemah. Explore the archive online for free, without a subscription.
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Titles in this collection
Browse twelve titles and 237,946 digitized pages, with material from 1874 to 2025. Through a partnership with Advantage Archives, Tekamah Public Library shares these sources from the past. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.
Follow a family connection or a question about the community through the titles below and the history they preserve.
Burt County Herald
3,044 pages from 1884 to 1892
Burt County News
4,340 pages from 1892 to 1900
Burt County Plaindealer
140,184 pages from 1934 to 2025
Craig Advertiser And The Burt County News
240 pages in 1906
Craig News
22,418 pages from 1909 to 1961
Nebraska Advocate
506 pages from 1878 to 1880
Tekamah Burtonian
40 pages in 1892
Tekamah Journal
15,128 pages from 1900 to 1918
The Burt County Herald
40,644 pages from 1895 to 1942
The Burtonian
3,902 pages from 1881 to 1901
The Tekamah Journal
304 pages in 1918
The Weekly Burtonian
7,196 pages from 1874 to 1897
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Research Guidance
Keep an open question focused
The history of Tekemah includes individual lives as well as events remembered by the wider community. Explore the different perspectives in the collection details shared by the Tekamah Public Library. State what you hope to learn and which detail might help answer it. Change one search term at a time and note how the results differ.
A missing match may reflect wording, dates, indexing, or the way a source is described rather than the absence of a historical record. Try a related term or period where available, and keep a note of unsuccessful searches so the limits of the search remain visible.
Keep the title, date, page, or item reference with each useful finding. Separate the words in a historical account from your interpretation, and note conflicting perspectives rather than choosing one too quickly. These notes help connect a local story to its evidence and show what remains uncertain.
Community Partnership
Keeping local history a community resource
This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of the Tekamah Public Library, its community, and Advantage Archives. Together, these partnerships preserve local sources and give people a way to explore, learn from, and share the history around them.
Advantage Archives covers ongoing archive hosting, storage, development, and maintenance. The institution and its community do not pay a subscription, seat license, annual support contract, or other recurring archive-service charge. Local history remains a community resource, not a subscription to maintain.
Would you like to see more of your community's history preserved and accessible? Start a conversation with your library, newspaper publisher, historical or genealogical society, museum, or school about the materials they would like to share and a possible partnership with Advantage Archives.
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Stories, research tips, and archive news
Read All About It connects archive research with the people and institutions preserving local history. Explore partner and community stories, project updates, research ideas, and perspectives on digitization, education, and working with primary sources. Use the articles as a starting point for your next question or a new way to share a discovery.
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