Nevada Code § 51.355

Statement of personal or family history
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1. A statement concerning the declarants
own birth, marriage, divorce, legitimacy, relationship by blood or marriage,
ancestry or other similar fact of personal or family history is not
inadmissible under the hearsay rule if the declarant is unavailable as a
witness, even though declarant had no means of acquiring personal knowledge of
the matter stated.
2. A statement concerning the matters
enumerated in subsection 1, and death also, of another person is not
inadmissible under the hearsay rule if the declarant:
(a) Was related to the other by blood or marriage
or was so intimately associated with the others family as to be likely to have
accurate information concerning the matter declared; and
(b) Is unavailable as a witness.

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