Hello Nebraska! I thought it would be fun to share a little bit of history that we have. A store ledger from 1889 and 1890 was used by my husband's grandmother to store old recipes. She cut them out and pasted them over the pages that itemized the purchases of the day. The information under those recipes, when I can lift them, may be of interest to some of you. As an example I will list information from one of the pages, but please keep in mind that it is sometimes hard to interpret the handwriting. Some customers were businesses - even Nemaha City, Nemaha School District, and the Poor Farm. If there is interest I'd be glad to list other names - probably without their purchases unless there is a specific request. Sept. 18th 1889 J. B. Farmer cr by 5 chickens cr by 1-1/2 bu potatoes R. Poland to 1 Bay Wagon $1.25 J. V. Angarbright to 2 set of plated knives & forks $7.00 Fred Scovill by Andrew Cr $2.30 Andrew Aynes by Fred Scovill's acct. $2.30 John Shuck by cash Cr. $1.00 J. W. Fairbrother to 1 box Fruit cans $ .70 Z. Stephenson by brayage Cr. $1.00 M. F. May to 43 lbs. Linathy (sp?) seed $14.50 Lum Stripper by Osker Bradley to 1 coffin $ 4.30 Poor Farm to 1 5 foot coffin $10.00 to 1 coffin box $ 1.25 Mrs. Snow to 1 ax & handle $ 1.20 Hope we can help someone. Tempe Berggren

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_904437196_boundary Content-ID: <0_904437196@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In a message dated 98-08-29 02:18:07 EDT, garymartens@earthlink.net writes: << NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com >> Gosh, I should have added a disclaimer on my info about Mr Dominguez and providing adoption info! :) I'll do it now..................I don't know Mr Dominguez, haven't personally worked with him, and cannot claim to know anything about his services for providing adoptee information. The facts are, however, that I have a friend who has been very successful in obtaining information through Mr Dominguez and the Dept of Social Services about his own adoption for a fee of about $45. He was given all the information allowable to an adoptee by the State of Nebraska, which included "identifying information" about his birth mother, her parents, how many siblings she had, her occupation, even her father's surname (which you could then conclude was her surname also). Hope this helps. Regards, Mona --part0_904437196_boundary Content-ID: <0_904437196@inet_out.mail.earthlink.net.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <garymartens@earthlink.net> Received: from relay27.mx.aol.com (relay27.mail.aol.com [172.31.109.27]) by air18.mail.aol.com (v49.1) with SMTP; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 02:18:07 -0400 Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.85]) by relay27.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id BAA17082 for <MonaNAriz@aol.com>; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 01:52:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from garymartens (ip92.dallas13.tx.pub-ip.psi.net [38.27.164.92]) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA13863; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808290552.WAA13863@gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net> From: "Gary Martens" <garymartens@earthlink.net> To: MonaNAriz@aol.com, NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:51:24 +0000 Subject: Re: Sorenson--Grand Island Reply-to: garymartens@earthlink.net Priority: normal In-reply-to: <a518ca02.35e768a0@aol.com>> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > Contact: Jerry Dominguez, Dept of Social Services, 301 Centennial Mall South, > Lincoln, NE 68509. He does adoption records searches for Nebraska adoptions > but will only make a search for authorized persons, being the adoptee > themselves with positive ID. > You should say Mr. Dominguez looks up information in his files, if you can prove that you have the legal right to see the information, that is, prove that the parents are deceased or prove that they signed the consent to release information. He controls a lot of adoption records in Nebraska, and I wouldn't say that Mr. Dominguez is exactly generous in what he provides, if anything. Gary Martens mailto:garymartens@earthlink.net AHSGR Village Coordinator for Schilling - Schilling Village Home Page - http://home.earthlink.net/~garymartens/schilling.html NEGenWeb Lincoln County Coordinator - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelincol/ GRDB List Owner - AHSGR Database project GER-Volga Co-list Owner - German Russian Volga Region mail list --part0_904437196_boundary--

> He died here in 1900 but had lived for 29 years, 1869-1898, > in Kansas. Would the Veteran's Administration have records of Civil > War monuments? Anyone have any ideas? > Good luck. I assume you talking monuments as in "gravestones" in cemeteries. The VA can't find my records from 1971, GOOD LUCK on finding records that were sent to the federal archives 85 or 90 years ago. You're going to have to know where this soldiers records where, because each VA facility sends records to a federal archive center in there area, and only that facility has knowledge of where the records were archived. US Army records for that period have been combined, but VA records are different. Gary Martens mailto:garymartens@earthlink.net AHSGR Village Coordinator for Schilling - Schilling Village Home Page - http://home.earthlink.net/~garymartens/schilling.html NEGenWeb Lincoln County Coordinator - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelincol/ GRDB List Owner - AHSGR Database project GER-Volga Co-list Owner - German Russian Volga Region mail list

Tempe, this is fun. Have any more? What year is it? The price for a cofin is sure different than today's price!!! My wife is from Nemaha and Johnson Counties. Ken Coolidge

Hi, I just want to thank all the great people who answered my questions on the requirements for birth, death, and land documents. There were so many great replies that I have a great start on tracking my people down. There were so many replies that I won't be able to thank each one of you individually, so I hope you will accept this instead. You were all a great help, and this is a great bunch of Rooters. Thanks again, Therese Tinklepaugh < blockery@coredcs.com >

I am looking for any information on the following TAYLOR family members. The family moved to Fremont area in 1880's from LaSalle Co., Illinois. I was wondering if anyone had a list of names buried in cemeteries in the Fremont area . I am looking for the following............. George & Elizabeth (Philpott ) TAYLOR Alfred J. Anson G. Frank Burdette G. Martha J. (Braucht) TAYLOR Any information would be greatly appreciated .. Thank You, Tedd Taylor

> > Contact: Jerry Dominguez, Dept of Social Services, 301 Centennial Mall South, > Lincoln, NE 68509. He does adoption records searches for Nebraska adoptions > but will only make a search for authorized persons, being the adoptee > themselves with positive ID. > You should say Mr. Dominguez looks up information in his files, if you can prove that you have the legal right to see the information, that is, prove that the parents are deceased or prove that they signed the consent to release information. He controls a lot of adoption records in Nebraska, and I wouldn't say that Mr. Dominguez is exactly generous in what he provides, if anything. Gary Martens mailto:garymartens@earthlink.net AHSGR Village Coordinator for Schilling - Schilling Village Home Page - http://home.earthlink.net/~garymartens/schilling.html NEGenWeb Lincoln County Coordinator - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelincol/ GRDB List Owner - AHSGR Database project GER-Volga Co-list Owner - German Russian Volga Region mail list

If she wants to research the information about her adoption, I'd suggest the following: Contact: Jerry Dominguez, Dept of Social Services, 301 Centennial Mall South, Lincoln, NE 68509. He does adoption records searches for Nebraska adoptions but will only make a search for authorized persons, being the adoptee themselves with positive ID. Or, I'd suggest that you write to the Grand Island Genealogical Society for the obituary of a "Mrs Sorenson" for the December date and you could probably get info that way as well. Regards, Mona Knight

I've made separate PAF files for my mother's and my father's family. I'd like to be able to link the files so I can print things relating to both families. Does anyone have experience with doing this? It can't be that hard, but I don't find the topic in the manual. Thanks, Jane Jane Snell Copes mailto:copes@smm.org exhibit researcher Science Museum of Minnesota 30 E. 10th Street St. Paul, MN 55101 phone 651-221-2561; FAX -4514 *** AREA CODE CHANGED TO 651 ON 12 JULY 1998 ***

On Dec 01,1926, Pansy Sorenson was born in Grand Island ,Nebraska. Her mother died at her birth and she was put up for adoption thru the Nebraska Childerns Home in Omaha I am told that it was a very large family and the father could not care for another child, so he made that decision. She has never made any attempt to locate any of her birth family,and knows only the name Sorensen. She must have some living brothers and sisters out there somewhere. It would be interesting to make contact with some of the family. If you have any infomation, please contact Donald E Cox. COXDE@aol.com

Eleanor LONG WHITAKER died 29 June 1891, West Laws Pct, McCook, Red Willow, NE. Buried "McCook Cemetery 1 July 1891" Funeral Services SUNDAY 5 July 1891 at Tidyman School House, Rev. G.W. Selby. Her daughter moved her remains to Palmyra, Otoe, NE 29 Jan 1892 to be placed in a family plot. Can you tell me who to contact for CEMETERY INFO, as above is from a news clipping in her daughter's scrap book. Thank you. Ruth Mosby at: rmos6241@aol.com

I am searching for anyone that may have information on the small community of Moorefield. My Aunt was buried in a old small cemetery on the Welch farm in 1895. The name was Zola Beatrice Miller b 22 Feb 1894 d. 9 Feb 1895. Her parents were Charles Miller and Marcissus. Any help on these people would be greatly appreciated. Also looking for a woman named Lela that was from Curtis. She was there in 1962 as she had written a cousin with the family history that she had. Speaks of an Aunt Iva which is my aunt and of Aunt Grace which is my grandmother. If anyone may know who she is or any other Millers in the Moorfield /Curtis area I would appreciate hearing from anyone. I am desperately trying to loosen the bricks on my brick wall. Any help would be greatly appreciated . Thanks in advance. Marilyn Drake mdrake@olynet.com Hoquiam, Washington

Marilyn Drake wrote: > > I am searching for anyone that may have information on the small > community of Moorefield. My Aunt was buried in a old small cemetery on > the Welch farm in 1895. The name was Zola Beatrice Miller b 22 Feb 1894 > d. 9 Feb 1895. Her parents were Charles Miller and Marcissus. Any help > on these people would be greatly appreciated. > > Also looking for a woman named Lela that was from Curtis. She was there > in 1962 as she had written a cousin with the family history that she > had. Speaks of an Aunt Iva which is my aunt and of Aunt Grace which is > my grandmother. If anyone may know who she is or any other Millers in > the Moorfield /Curtis area I would appreciate hearing from anyone. I am > desperately trying to loosen the bricks on my brick wall. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated . > > Thanks in advance. > > Marilyn Drake > mdrake@olynet.com > Hoquiam, Washington Hi Marilyn, My grandfather Erma Reed Cline was born in Curtis, but we don't have much on his family. My grandmother Georgia Sanders, born in Stockville, we have much on her family. I still have cousins living in Frontier County. If you have not tried this already, Rootsweb's NEGenWeb, has much helpful information posted. The URL is: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~nefronti/> This is the home page, just click on Resources. I don't know if the specific family members that you mentioned are there, as I just took a brief glance, but there are many DRAKE and MILLER burial and marriage records posted there. And, if you need help, host Chris Christensen is most helpful, just E-mail him at his address posted there. I haven't posted to the list before, but I hope you find this helpful. I found many of my family and their friends there. I don't know about the cemetery on the Welch farm, however. It was there that I learned that my great-grandmother went by "Libbie" rather than Elizabeth. And now all these old letters written by or to Libbie take on a whole new meaning.

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Hi, I'm new to this list and was wondering if somebody could answer a few questions for me about Nebraska's criteria for obtaining birth/death certificates. I just found out that my great grandmother(Daisy Belle CAREY b. Jan. 20, 1878) and several of her siblings were born in Seward Co., NE. So here are my questions: 1) When I went to the Vital Statistics page, they said that you had to have a copy of a photo ID, who the person is in regard to yourself(has to be immediate family it said), and their signature to be able to obtain the certificate. Now, how does that work for those people who are trying to research their long dead ancestors? 2) The Seward Co. web page didn't say when the Court house began keeping records. Does anybody know? I'm looking for birth certificates from 1869 on up. 3) The family I'm looking for is the Harvey G. and Rebecca A. (HARSHBARGER) CAREY family. They left Sidney, Shelby Co., OH to homestead in NE. They eventually returned to Sidney, Shelby Co., OH(Carey's are big in Shelby Co.). They had 7 children(in no particular order): Berta, Elta, Jason, Clarence, Edward, Samuel, and Daisy. I think I found them in the 1870 Seward Co. Census, but they are listed as COREY, and some of the info doesn't match what I have(no surprise). Does anybody have the 1880 Census of NE or Seward Co., or the index, that would be willing to tell me if they were still there. I have checked OH and they were not there in 1880. 4) Harvey had to have signed papers for the land they were farming. Does anybody know where I would go to find these? Any help in answering these questions would be greatly appreciated. I am going to visit my parents(they live near Sioux City, SD) next week, and we were thinking of making a run down to Seward. If anybody has any suggestions as to good places to check out while we are there, please let me know. Thanks again, Therese < blockery@coredcs.com >

I haven't seen anything on this list about whether the state of Nebraska has a death index. If there is one, where can it be found? Judy -- A job is nice, but it interferes with genealogy research.

BCC: wnoliver@worldnet.att.net Good Morning Good EagleLarks, Ginger [FEATHER] has informed the committee that her Mom passed away "peacefully" this morning. She will be going off line for about three weeks to take care of things. She is at this time preparing to do this. I know we all wish to express ourselves to her situation. Bill --

If anyone is listening who descends from or knew about RICHARD & BESSIE MITCHELL who lived in Red Willow and/or Hitchcock Co. in the 1880's to 1900's, please e-mail me. Thank you kscott@kdsi.net

I live in Omaha if someone needs a skinner looked up in the phone book etc... let me know, Robin robin.evert@rdtcorp.com http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/3822/ -----Original Message----- From: Richard Sibbernsen <rsibb@bellsouth.net> To: NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com <NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, August 23, 1998 11:43 AM Subject: Re: NEBRRoots-D Digest V98 #168 >There are still Skinner families in the Omaha Area if my memory serves me >correctly MJC > >NEBRRoots-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > >> Subject: >> >> NEBRRoots-D Digest Volume 98 : Issue 168 >> >> Today's Topics: >> #1 Re: Cotner College ["Lew Kaye-Skinner" <L.Kaye-Skinner] >> #2 Skinner, Joseph ["Kimberly Hart" <hart8ak@inreach.c] >> >> Administrivia: >> To unsubscribe from NEBRRoots-D, send a message to >> >> NEBRRoots-D-request@rootsweb.com >> >> that contains in the body of the message the command >> >> unsubscribe >> >> and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >> requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. >> >> ______________________________ >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - >> >> Subject: Re: Cotner College >> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:06:35 -0500 >> From: "Lew Kaye-Skinner" <L.Kaye-Skinner@navix.net> >> To: NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com >> >> If my memory is correct, Cotner College did not actually fold; it was >> 'absorbed' into the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Currently, the >> Cotner Professor of Religion is John Turner. >> >> If the UNL Archives do not have the records you want, you might try the >> Christian Church on North 66th (just north of Holdrege) in Lincoln. >> >> ______________________________ >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - >> >> Subject: Skinner, Joseph >> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 19:43:09 -0700 >> From: "Kimberly Hart" <hart8ak@inreach.com> >> To: NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com >> >> Seeking information on Joseph & Juliet Skinner in Platte and Colfax >> counties. >> >> The following is from the 1860 Platte Co., NE Census >> >> Joseph Skinner b. abt 1813 in NY >> Juliet b. abt 1810 in NY >> Charlotte Adelade Skinner b. 1846 Michigan >> ( +George Lawrence m. 30 April 1865 Platte Co., NE) >> Byron Skinner b. 1838 MI >> James Skinner b. 1844 MI >> Albert Skinner b. 1842 MI >> Ellen Skinner b. 1840 MI >> >> Does anyone have any further info? Thank in advance, >> >> Kimberly Hart >> Hart8ak@inreach.com > > >

Hi! Looking for information on; MCDONALD - Fielden "DOUGLAS" 1887-1958 (sp:Grace EATON) Lived in DAWES CO. (Chadron). Children: NORMAN (ch:Stuart Douglas, Mary Louise, Billy (William?) Norman, & Donald Matthew) -sp:unknown., GRACE LORRAINE (ch:Douglas Leon, Dawn Lorraine & Grace Belle) -sp:Glenn CARRINGTON, & JANE AGNES (no children) - sp: Richard "Dick" ROW. Douglas worked at the Chadron Mill until 1955 CARRINGTON - Glenn & Grace L./McDonald/ lived in Laurel, NE for a while. Last place they were known to be (we think) is Dodge, ND. Grace was Glenn's 2nd wife. ROW - "Dick" & Jane/McDonald/ lived on a ranch in Chadron,NE. Dick died in @1980 & Jane has moved off the ranch. They used to own several airplanes - Cub taildraggers. Crop dusters?? LAUVER - Ephraim 1838-1926 - sp:Jane Greene MCCAHAN 1841-1913. (ch:Zaidee Mae 1862, James M. 1866, John H. 1869, Elizabeth "Bessie" 1872, Charles Wesley 1876, & Warren 1880) Both Ephraim & Jane were born in PA, died in NE. Sometime between the 1880 PA Census & the 1900 NE census they moved to KNOX CO., Morton Twp. & by 1910 they were in CEDAR Co., Hartington City - just Ephraim & Jane. Zaidee 1862 PA - 1936 MN, married Isaac H. AMLAW 1857 NY - 1928 MN. Elizabeth "Bessie" 1872 PA -?? married Frank NOE 1850 -?? b:NY NOE - Frank & "Bessie"/LAUVER/. Found on 1920 Census living in KNOX CO. - Bloomfield, Morton Twp. Listed in their household was a son, GLEN 1899 - ? b:NE, & Ephraim - Bessie's father - age 81. Frank was 70, Bessie 47 & Glen 21 (Laborer). AMLAW - Isaac & Zaidee Mae/LAUVER/. Had 3 sons, 1 daughter. At least one son was born in CEDAR CO., St. James - Edmund "ROSS" AMLAW 1887 NE - 1946 MN. (sp:Mabel M. STONE -1888 Eng. - 1933 MN) I don't know when they left NE, but my grandmother remembers visiting her grandparents farm just outside of Grantsburg, WI. Seems they moved around alot! Thank you.....I know it's a long one, but sometimes it's just gotta be done!! Paula *:O)- bdeml@ll.net