Omaha Marriages now online

Click [here] to visit our new site, Omaha Marriages and Weddings. This will probably be a slow work-in-progress, as we will be giving priority to our Omaha Obits site. However, there are currently about 4,200 listings on the site. The number of newlyweds is about half that, however, because each couple is listed twice. Example: John Doe married Jane Smith. You would find the couple under “D” and under “S”. Helpful if you only know the last name of one of them. 

Colorful “Omaha Newspapers” Chart

Now Available for Download

Society member Karen Tippets, whose microfilm extraction work is responsible for most of the almost 120,000 listings that appear on the Omaha Obits  web site, has put together and made available for download, a colorful ”Omaha Newspapers” chart. This horizontal bar chart is in PDF format, and lists all 48 newspapers that have been published in Omaha since 1852 to the present. The chart also shows the years that each of the 48 papers were in publication. (Trivia: Omaha’s first newspaper, the “Western Bugle”, was in business from 1852 to 1853.)

To download this chart, go to the blue download box at the bottom of the sidebar on this page.

New Addition to Omaha Obits site

Thanks to society member Mike Warne, the Omaha Obits site has a new feature: Omaha Funeral Homes. This listing covers every funeral home in Omaha from 1866 to the present. This list shows Firm Name, Address, From-To (years of business), and Former Firm Name (if any).  Omaha was officially incorporated by the state legislature on February 2, 1857, so the first funeral home made its appearance 9 years after that.

Web-based Genealogy

In this month’s issue of Westward Into Nebraska (Jan 08), we talk about web-based genealogy. As noted in the article, I emailed a short questionnaire to five internet sites that host web-based genealogy. The questions were:

1.   In your opinion, what sets your site apart from other web-based sites on the internet?
2.   The future of web-based genealogy as you see it.
3.   Will genealogy computer programs become obsolete? And why?
4.   What you suggest for someone new to web-based genealogy who is thinking of pursuing it as opposed to computer program based genealogy?

If you go to the “Newsletter” section of this site, you can read the replies. Also there you will find clickable links that will take you to the sites, if you are interested in learning more about them. 

Enjoy.