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cember, 1899; June, 1901—December, 1914; Death Records of the 
City of Lincoln, September, 1899—December, 1914; Marriage 
Records of Lancaster County, IV-XL, 1874-1914; Divorce 
Records of Lancaster County, 1909-1914, and Files and Dockets 
of The Equity Division of the District Court of Lancaster County, 
1901-1909. The incomplete and unreliable nature of these re- 
turns has been commented upon in the text. The Bulletins of the 
Nebraska State Board of Health, Nos. 1-3, and January, 1915, 
have been appealed to, but in addition to the incomplete character 
of the returns upon which they are necessarily based, the bulletins 
are put up in such poor statistical form as to be practically worth- 
less. 
The birth records of the city have been supplemented by the 
parish registers of the eight Russian German churches now in the 
settlements. The years covered by each of these records are as 
follows: 
I. Evangelische Congregationale Gemeinde, 1889-1914 
2. Evangelische Reformirte Immanuels Gemeinde, 1891-1914 
3. Evangelische Congregationale Zions Gemeinde, 1900-1914 
4. Evangelische Congregationale Salem Gemeinde, 1901-1914 
5: Evangelische Lutherische Friedens Gemeinde, 1907-1914 
6. St. John’s Evangelische Gemeinde, 1907-1914 
7. Evangelische Lutherische Emanuels Gemeinde, 1909-1914 
8. Evangelische Lutherische Christ Gemeinde, IQII-IQI4 
These are valuable records, especially as supplemental to the 
birth records, for they include all the Russian German population 
in the city until very recently, and therefore all of the christen- 
ings. Even then they are incomplete, for they do not include 
those who died before christening. However, the city death 
records provide this data, and between the two it is possible to 
compile a correct and complete list of births. 
Aside from the manuscripts noted above, the following works 
were consulted : 
American Academy of Medicine. Medical Problems of Immigration, 
being the papers and their discussion presented at the Thirty-seventh 
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Medicine, held at 
Atlantic City, June I, 1912. Easton, Pa., 1913. 
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