Someone recently contacted me regarding Larue Thomas' obituary. I JUST found it and am able to send it along. Please email me. Becky __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Would you like to see….. A 600 year old handwritten medical book? Special atmospherically controlled rooms with rare books such as the First Edition of Darwin’s Origin of Species ? Omaha area physicians journals from long ago, and historical medical equipment? A full set of the early University of Nebraska yearbooks? Or how about seeing your GOGS buddies for a Summer Social Visit! We’ll be meeting August 18th , 2004 at 7 P.M. UNMC McGoogan Library John Schleicher, Director of the McGoogan Library of Medicine will give us a tour. Many of you will remember John as he spoke at our last meeting. Maybe some of you will remember Dr. McGoogan as he delivered about 9000 babies in the Omaha area. Come for an interesting look at rare books, journals, art and more. Come to socialize We’ll have refreshments too. HOW TO GET THERE. Park in the Durham Outpatient Center garage at 45th and Emily. (Between Dodge and Center) Go to the main entry of the Durham Center on the 1st level of the parking garage. There are elevators in the parking garage. We will have people to meet you at the information desk just inside the Durham Center. Someone will be there to meet you until about 7:15 for late comers. Or call Sandy, cell # 880-1746. You can use the house phone on the information desk. Its a walk to get to the library in the SE corner of the complex on the 8th floor. Wheel chairs are available.

This week, Heritage Quest goes on line at the library. Remote access isn't working yet, but it's coming too. In order to use it, you have to have a valid library card--or be a member of a reciprocating library with Omaha Public Library system. (That's Lincoln & Council Bluffs for sure...and other counties could probably talk to their county boards about negotiating to become reciprocal...although, no, it doesn't mean our genealogy collection will circulate.) If you don't have a reciprocal library card, you can get one for $20 for four months (covers everybody in the family) or $60 a year. Other library news: there's forty new census microfilms films in July-- (find your stuff on ancestry or other on-line source, then see if OPL has the reel to get a bigger copy large enough to read.) Georgia is now complete through 1880, and TX & GA are getting close to done through 1900. There were also some OK 1920 & 1930 films, and some MN 1930 (which brings MN real close to being complete through 1930, except for mainly Hennepin & Ramsey co's--Minneapolis/St Paul...and we're working on getting those.) These are all added because of donations. If you went to the library this spring and saw the new set of stacks they'd added: it's just about full, and the rest of the shelves aren't far behind it. Also, good news, from the looks of things, Sunday hours (4 hrs from 1-5) will be back in January with the new year. No parking fees on Saturday, Sunday or after five. Volunteers on Monday evenings, and sometimes at other times. Karen

My husband and I were in a terrible car crash on Monday morning. He did not survive. My injuries, though painful, are minor, and I will survive. I am going to unsubscribe shortly, as I have got to cut down on my number of incoming msgs. Thanks to all who have written to me and helped me in the past. When things settle down, I will subscribe again. Joyce Franke

John Philip Colletta, author of They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's Arrival Record, Finding Italian Roots: The Complete Guide for Americans, & Only a Few Bones will be the conference speaker at the October 30, 2004 Greater Omaha Genealogical Society conference. 9:00 to 4:00 Topics: Using Original and Derivative Sources: How to Evaluate Evidence; Only a Few Bones: Case studies in pulling sources together to reconstruct real life events; Military Pension & Bounty Land Records 1776 - 1912; Breaking Through Brick Walls: Use your Head. We have a new place to meet at the Paralyzed Veterans of America building that has much more room and isn't right outside road construction. We will have box lunches available for sale for those who don't want to go out to eat. We're working on getting at least one vendor into town for the event. We WILL have the popular 365+1 Genealogy Tips calendar, the handy Federal Census Helper (available nowhere else), Tshirts, buttons, and maybe a NEW single page research helper (we're working on it.) available that day. There'll be a fund-raising bake sale going on for folks to get midmorning treats with all proceeds benefiting the census collection at the W. Dale Clark Library. Because we have to pay Dr. Colletta and all his expenses for this trip, this IS a pay-to-attend workshop, but it promises to be a very wonderful day filled with lots of useful information. You can email me or _Genclass@aol.com_ (mailto:Genclass@aol.com) for a description of the classes, find out fees, address, or to obtain a flier which should be available by the end of the week. However, we are excited & wanted you all to mark your calendar. We're talking about making pre-ordered copies of the syllabus available for purchase for those that CAN'T make it into town or have to work that day (we know that sometimes life intrudes into our favorite activity.) This is a maybe--so if you're interested, let us know now so that we can decide whether it is worth our time to plan on doing it. We're also discussing a possible special deal for groups from other genealogy societies who don't want to join G.O.G.S. to qualify for the member discount...so if you think a bunch of you might want to carpool into Omaha, let us know you're interested in that as well. Karen PS There is a conference planned for spring 2005 as well, so that the member discount obtained from joining for this conference would apply then as well.

Thanks Judy Turns out not to be any that I was looking for but probably a relative. Definitely worth pursuing in this area of Nebraska. Thanks for your help. Larry >I have a handful of miscellaneous issues of Ancestree. >I just happened to have Vol. 15, No. 1 which >contained the name you are researching. > >Johann Zohner is on the list for: > >Confirmands, St. John's Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, >Battle Creek, NE, Madison County., > >It was submitted by Joyce L. Borgelt, 408 N. 5 St., Battle Creek, NE 68715 > >Judy Martin >Wurtsboro, NY

I want to thank everyone for their reply. I got several leads and have initiated a request to one. So far haven't heard back but if this fails I have several others to try. Thanks everyone. Larry

NEBRASKA OBITUARY ABSTRACTS has had 14 more pages of obits abstracts added this week. The obituaries posted here are abstracts because these are recent. We do not have any further information and suggest contacting the newspapers listed for more information. http://www.rootsweb.com/~neobits/index.htm The Obituary Abstracts posted on this site begin in 2001 to present. We do not have any earlier/older obituaries on this site. Older obituaries can be found either through the individual county sites or check your local LDS Family history center, Nebraska State Historical Society and local newspapers & genealogical societies. If you have any questions about this site please let us know. We are not accepting submissions for this site. This site will be updated at least once a month. Please be sure and put NE-Obits Abstracts in the Subject line when contacting us about this site. Site coordinator is Kathie Harrison New Volunteer Transcribers My thanks to these fine people for offering to assist me in keeping this site up-to-date! Jan Plambeck Kaylynn Loveland Leslie Hollander Teri Fisher Thanks! Kathie Harrison Nebraska Obituary Abstracts http://www.rootsweb.com/~neobits/index.htm

Karen, Thanks for straightening me out about the origins of Ancestree. And I am glad to see so many of our listers jumped in to help on this request. I am sorry to say I read Larry's query a month ago and didn't think I had time to answer it. Sorry, Larry. Usually, as you can tell now, our list is very helpful with requests. I know I was out of town at the time, so maybe others were on vacation, too. Good luck! Laura > > > Greater Omaha Genealogical Society publishes Westward Into Nebraska. > Ancestree is the publication for Nebraska State Genealogical Society. > > Karen > >

Greater Omaha Genealogical Society publishes Westward Into Nebraska. Ancestree is the publication for Nebraska State Genealogical Society. Karen

Larry, Try the organization that publishes Ancestree... Is it the Greater Omaha Gen. Soc.? Or some other? Perhaps the Nebraska State Historical Society has back issues. They are online at www.nebraskahistory.com (or .org, I forget!). I have a couple old issues of Ancestree that I ordered from someone online. I don't think it was ebay, but some issues were definitely for sale. I can't remember where. Good luck, Laura

It may be possible soon to access HQ through the Omaha Public Library--they've been working really hard at making it available. We do have another 40 reels of microfilm that went down last week: 1880 GA is now complete, some OK, MN, and miscellaneous other films. Karen

List members-that is DIXON, NE. Richard Tucson, AZ http://members.aol.com/rrw122433/INDEX.htm

List members. An electronic reproduction of the St. Anne's Centennial booklet "A Century of Faith", St. Anne's Parish, Dioxin, NE, 1893-1993 will be available soon. I will have a contact person soon. Richard Tucson, AZ http://members.aol.com/rrw122433/INDEX.htm

Sorry, I forgot to give the date. The year was 1891. Judy Martin

Hello Larry: I have a handful of miscellaneous issues of Ancestree. I just happened to have Vol. 15, No. 1 which contained the name you are researching. Johann Zohner is on the list for: Confirmands, St. John's Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, Battle Creek, NE, Madison County., It was submitted by Joyce L. Borgelt, 408 N. 5 St., Battle Creek, NE 68715 Judy Martin Wurtsboro, NY On Monday, August 2, 2004, at 10:00 AM, NEBRRoots-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > From: Larry Hakel <lhakel@earthlink.net> > Date: Sun Aug 1, 2004 9:17:15 PM America/New_York > To: NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Ancestree > > > I posted the following several weeks ago regarding issues of Ancestree > without any response. I believe that is a Nebraska publication. Can > anyone tell me where I might find these? Is there a library that > might have them that maybe would send them via an Interlibrary Loan. > > Thanks > > Larry > >> On the Ancestree index I found some references but the pages were not >> available online. Would someone with access to this publication >> please check out in Vol. 15 and 16 the following references to >> Zohner. Thank you. >> >> Vol. 15 on page 30 has a reference for ZOHNER. >> Vol. 16 page 5, 6 also has a reference for ZOHNER. >> >> Thanks >> >> Larry Hakel >> Luray Virginia >> >>

Larry: I just remembered a second option for you. Through my local public library, I can access HeritageQuest Online. Our system allows you to use this resource from your home computer but you must have a library card number. (You might check to see if your library has that. I believe many of them do.) Within HeritageQuest is PERSI (PERiodical Source Index) that was produced in cooperation with the Allen County Public Library Foundation of Fort Wayne, Indiana). The Allen County Public Library Foundation also has copies of many issues of Ancestree. I checked and they have both of the issues you are interested in. From within Heritage Quest, you can get to an order form to request copies of the article you are interested in. You may request up to six articles at a time. The charge is $7.50 for each form submitted, pre-paid, plus $0.20 per page copied which is billed to you. This resource is something that may also be of interest to other researchers if they have not tried it. I was pleasantly surprised recently to find a positive match on an ancestor (from the Concordia Historical Institute) and several other "possibles" that I sent for. Waiting time is indicated as 6-8 weeks. I have copied the information about HeritageQuest Online below. Sincerely, Deb (Hilmer) Jahn About HeritageQuest Online What is HeritageQuest Online? ProQuest Information and Learning's HeritageQuest Online provides libraries with a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Beginning or professional genealogists can now use this powerful online library, with original page images for all documents, from the convenience of their home or at the library. Indexes and original page images mean no additional trips, inter-library loan requests or work by researchers or staff. HeritageQuest Online is the marriage of ProQuest's Genealogy & Local History Online, a collection of over 25,000 family and local histories, and content from HeritageQuest, the largest genealogical data, products, supplies and equipment provider to consumers and institutions in the United States. In August 2001, ProQuest acquired HeritageQuest. Founded in 1983, HeritageQuest has been in business for over 20 years and brings a wealth of genealogy data to ProQuest. HeritageQuest Online is designed specifically for patrons in public libraries who are either just beginning their family research or who after years of work are still uncovering their past. With over 25,000 books, the entire U.S. Federal Census, and other expanding collections, HeritageQuest Online gives any library the chance to tap in to one of the largest collections of genealogy material in the country. ProQuest's Genealogy & Local History Collection of 25,000+ family and local history books, every word searchable. Every page of each book is presented and can be easily downloaded or copied. Few genealogical collections in the country have this many titles. Now even the smallest library can instantly begin to offer the information power of a large research library. Visit the "Read what is new" link on the HeritageQuest Online home page to keep up to date on the number of titles added. 1.. These titles have been digitized from ProQuest's microfilm collection, Genealogy & Local History, which assembles genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials including material from all 50 states and Canada. Titles are included from libraries nationwide including the Newberry Library (Chicago), the Widener Library (Harvard University), the New York Public Library, the Sutro Library, the University of Illinois at Urbana, and others. 2.. Complete U.S. Federal Census, 1790-1930. The page images and corresponding indexes for the entire census, 1790-1930 are included in HeritageQuest Online. These are completely new indexes created by HeritageQuest. In addition to the ability to search by name, our census records can be searched by place of birth, age, ethnicity and other variables making this the most versatile census searching available online. Researchers can quickly see all African-Americans or all persons born in Ireland living in a state or county. ProQuest is in the process of loading Census images and indexes. Visit the "Read what is new" link on the HeritageQuest Online home page to keep up to date on Census loading. 3.. PERSIT - The PERiodical Source Index is a comprehensive subject index covering more than 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals written in English and French (Canada) since 1800. PERSIT provides the researcher the ability to search on surnames, locations, and methodologies as well as the ability to browse the journals by title and keyword. There are more than 1.6 million article citations currently available, with updates occurring annually. PERSIT is produced in cooperation with the Allen County Public Library Foundation. 4.. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. (Forthcoming) This HeritageQuest collection details records of 80,000+ individuals who served in the Revolutionary War and contains both genealogical and historical information. Each veteran's file usually contains six or more pages on each veteran and normally includes the veteran's former rank, unit, and period of service, age or date of birth, residence, and sometimes-genealogical information on other family members. 5.. Freedman's Bank Records. (Forthcoming) At the close of the Civil War, the Freedman's Savings & Trust Company was the primary bank for America's freed slaves and others from 1865-1874. This HeritageQuest collection documents more than 70,000 bank depositors and nearly 480,000 of their dependants and heirs. It is considered one of the most important resources for African-American genealogical research. 6.. And more... HeritageQuest Online will continue to grow with material from ProQuest's and HeritageQuest's vaults. Working with an advisory board of genealogical librarians and professional genealogists, we are considering new content, such as ships passenger lists, military history, city directories, vital records, international genealogical content, and more. Features HeritageQuest Online makes searching easy. Users can search across the ASCII text as well as indexed names and subjects to find information on ancestors and local areas. Each record is linked to the corresponding page images and is downloadable in Adobe® PDF format. HeritageQuest Online also makes it easy to save, retrieve and take notes on your research through the Search History and Notebook features. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted & Carole Miller" <susieque@pacbell.net> To: <NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [NEBRRoots] Ancestree > On 8/1/04 6:17 PM, "Larry Hakel" <lhakel@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > I posted the following several weeks ago regarding issues of Ancestree > > without any response. I believe that is a Nebraska publication. Can > > anyone tell me where I might find these? Is there a library that might > > have them that maybe would send them via an Interlibrary Loan. > > > > Thanks > > > > Larry > > > >> On the Ancestree index I found some references but the pages were not > >> available online. Would someone with access to this publication please > >> check out in Vol. 15 and 16 the following references to Zohner. Thank you. > >> > >> Vol. 15 on page 30 has a reference for ZOHNER. > >> Vol. 16 page 5, 6 also has a reference for ZOHNER. > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Larry Hakel > >> Luray Virginia > > > Hi Larry, > > All the old issues are available at NE State Historical Society Library in > Lincoln, NE. They have a "research by mail" page if you want to order > copies. > > Start at > > http://www.nebraskahistory.org > > Ted & Carole Miller > > > ==== NEBRRoots Mailing List ==== > To Unsubscribe NEBRRoots-L > <"mailto:NEBRRoots-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe"> > To Unsubscribe NEBRRoots-D (digest) > <"mailto:NEBRRoots-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe"> > Subscribe to Nebraska Trivia & History: > <"mailto:NEBRHeritage-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe"> > >

Larry: If you can wait for several days, I will check to see if the LDS branch library in Tacoma, WA has those copies of Ancestree. I live in Gig Harbor but I have some films that I ordered that are in there now and I hope to get there yet this week to search them. When I was there the last time (when I ordered the films - about 10 days ago), I noticed they had several issues in their collection, however, at the time I did not copy down which issues. But, I have noted the issues you are interested in and the pages numbers and will be happy to check to see if they have those two if you would like me to. Sincerely, Deb (Hilmer) Jahn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Hakel" <lhakel@earthlink.net> To: <NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 6:17 PM Subject: [NEBRRoots] Ancestree > I posted the following several weeks ago regarding issues of Ancestree > without any response. I believe that is a Nebraska publication. Can > anyone tell me where I might find these? Is there a library that might > have them that maybe would send them via an Interlibrary Loan. > > Thanks > > Larry > > >On the Ancestree index I found some references but the pages were not > >available online. Would someone with access to this publication please > >check out in Vol. 15 and 16 the following references to Zohner. Thank you. > > > >Vol. 15 on page 30 has a reference for ZOHNER. > >Vol. 16 page 5, 6 also has a reference for ZOHNER. > > > >Thanks > > > >Larry Hakel > >Luray Virginia > > > > ==== NEBRRoots Mailing List ==== > To Unsubscribe NEBRRoots-L > <"mailto:NEBRRoots-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe"> > To Unsubscribe NEBRRoots-D (digest) > <"mailto:NEBRRoots-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe"> > Subscribe to Nebraska Trivia & History: > <"mailto:NEBRHeritage-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe"> > >

Larry, Go to the following site and it will give you the answer. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nesgs/Ancestree/ Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Hakel" <lhakel@earthlink.net> To: <NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 7:17 PM Subject: [NEBRRoots] Ancestree I posted the following several weeks ago regarding issues of Ancestree without any response. I believe that is a Nebraska publication. Can anyone tell me where I might find these? Is there a library that might have them that maybe would send them via an Interlibrary Loan. Thanks Larry >On the Ancestree index I found some references but the pages were not >available online. Would someone with access to this publication please >check out in Vol. 15 and 16 the following references to Zohner. Thank you. > >Vol. 15 on page 30 has a reference for ZOHNER. >Vol. 16 page 5, 6 also has a reference for ZOHNER. > >Thanks > >Larry Hakel >Luray Virginia ==== NEBRRoots Mailing List ==== To Unsubscribe NEBRRoots-L <"mailto:NEBRRoots-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe"> To Unsubscribe NEBRRoots-D (digest) <"mailto:NEBRRoots-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe"> Subscribe to Nebraska Trivia & History: <"mailto:NEBRHeritage-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe">

On 8/1/04 6:17 PM, "Larry Hakel" <lhakel@earthlink.net> wrote: > I posted the following several weeks ago regarding issues of Ancestree > without any response. I believe that is a Nebraska publication. Can > anyone tell me where I might find these? Is there a library that might > have them that maybe would send them via an Interlibrary Loan. > > Thanks > > Larry > >> On the Ancestree index I found some references but the pages were not >> available online. Would someone with access to this publication please >> check out in Vol. 15 and 16 the following references to Zohner. Thank you. >> >> Vol. 15 on page 30 has a reference for ZOHNER. >> Vol. 16 page 5, 6 also has a reference for ZOHNER. >> >> Thanks >> >> Larry Hakel >> Luray Virginia Hi Larry, All the old issues are available at NE State Historical Society Library in Lincoln, NE. They have a "research by mail" page if you want to order copies. Start at http://www.nebraskahistory.org Ted & Carole Miller