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

Nebraska Obituary Abstracts has had 10 pages added this week. New Volunteer Transcribers made my job easier and provided more data online. 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 We now have 425 pages online, but please be sure to check the NEGenWeb Project County sites for older obituaries, since what we have on Nebraska Obituary Abstracts only go back to 2001 to present day. County Obituary Links: http://www.rootsweb.com/~neobits/county.html Nebraska Obituary Abstracts: http://www.rootsweb.com/~neobits/index.htm Take care, Kathie Harrison Lancaster Co., NEGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/index.html

June 18, 2003 Gladys Akeson SPRINGFIELD,Oregon - The graveside service will be July 3 for Gladys Akeson of Springfield, who died June 15 of age-related causes. She was 99. She was born March 26, 1904, in Weeping Water, Neb., to Oscar and Stella Rector McNurlin. She moved with her family in 1918 to Washington and then to Salem before returning to Nebraska in 1924. She graduated from high school in Salem in 1922. She married Thomas Akeson in Weeping Water on June 9, 1928. They farmed in Nebraska until 1975, when they moved to Escondido, Calif. He died Feb. 8, 1989. She moved to Eugene in 1993 and to Springfield in 1997. Akeson worked as a secretary prior to her marriage. Her interests included playing cards and word games, traveling and spending time with her family. She was a member of Weeping Water United Church of Christ and Order of Eastern Star. Survivors include a daughter, Marilyn Buskirk of Eugene; two grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. A grandson died previously. The July 3 service will be at Oak Hill Cemetery in Weeping Water. Musgrove Family Mortuary of Eugene is in charge of arrangements

Added more biographies to the Denton Community Historical Society of SW Lancaster County, Nebraska. These biographies are from "LINCOLN The Capitol City and Lancaster County, Nebraska" Published Chicago, Illinois The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1916 Biographies were provided by Teresa Sullivan. Transcribed by Kathie Harrison. Names not currently linked are being transcribed and will be added as soon as possible. ENJOY! http://www.rootsweb.com/~nedchs/index.htm Take care, Kathie Harrison Lancaster Co., NEGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/index.html

I have been askied to post this to the lists which may find this of interest. Upcoming Lincoln-Lancaster County Genealogical Society of Nebraska Meeting Program for Aug. 10, 2004 - Using Cemeteries/Mortuaries/Obituaries - Have you looked in every "death" record/resource in the area you are researching? Don't miss this interesting August 10th meeting! Cynthia "Call Ahead" Monroe is the presenter of the first two topics and Eva Bachman will present the Funeral Home part. Ron Gaddis will be the moderator and time keeper-bell ringer. Cemeteries...how do you find them if you are a woman....if you are a man (men don't ask for directions)? Preparations? What preparations? When is the best time to visit? Of the year? Of the day? How do you find a headstone in 20 acres of....? What "supplies" (other than a spouse) do you take with you to help read the inscriptions? "If it is carved in stone, is it true?" Any follow-up after the visit? Obituaries...how do you track them down? Where do you look? Hint...most were in a newspaper. What newspaper? When did the death occur? What town papers might have printed it? How do you find a copy. The county library, the internet, the newspaper archives? Then the real work starts...8 grandchildren? I know of only 3. Funeral Homes...often mentioned in cemetery's written records and in obituaries. Ah, yes, cemeteries do sometimes have written records you can examine! Who bought the plot and who is in the lot? Funeral records can be brief, very brief or more helpful than any death certificate. Is the home still active? If not, where are the records now? Come prepared to join in the discussion and bring sample records if you want to share them. We will put them out on the tables and hope to benefit from your experiences too! This presentation will cover some of the "hidden" information you may find. Presenters: Ron Gaddis, Eva Bachman Meetings are at 7:15 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month in the Amphitheater, Dick Administration Bldg., Union College, 3800 S. 48th St., Lincoln, NE. Take care, Kathie Harrison Lancaster Co., NEGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/index.html

Members & friends of Greater Omaha Genealogical Society are reading the markers of the above two cemeteries (almost done with HCWL & just starting on FL). We also have permission to read Mount Hope. If anybody lives in the area and would like to help, contact me--or Mavmom18@aol.com, or Kjackson@radiks.net to volunteer. If you've never done something like this, we'll be happy to train. At FL, we're going in twos, as many of the stones require interpretation they're so worn. We have finished one of the oldest sections over there, but there's lots of chiggers looking for lunch so be sure to wear 100% Deet, which helps. Both cemeteries are thrilled we're working there, as they get lots of inquiries, and in many cases, they don't know who has stones, and who doesn't, so this will aid their work. Eventually, we'll be putting these into book form (or maybe on CDrom) for sale so that we can buy more materials for the W. Dale Clark library--and so we all end up finding more ancestors. We will be including some pictures from each cemetery in the appropriate book. While they'll be indexed, they won't be alphabetical in the sections so you can see who may be next to other possible relatives--and we've got the lot numbers and we'll be including the people without stones, because they're graciously allowing us access to the data base. This also means that when the family only put a death date on the marker, we can put the interment date in as well, example: <int. 2 Jan 2004> so people can look for obits. Weather has not been most cooperative, as it seems to rain when we plan to go out & work--like this morning's gully washer. This also encourages the chiggers. We can use lots more people who are willing to help in a section, or take a section, or whatever. So if you think you have a few hours each month, or even some afternoon, let us know and we'll try to pair you up with someone who's going out, unless you've got your own person that wants to go...then we'll make sure you get trained and turn you loose. Some of the stones need to be "braille-read", others need to be cleaned (water only in the spray bottles), sometimes they need to be brushed off, or troweled out a bit with overgrown dirt. We recommend having the following things available in a tool or tackle box, or a bucket/pail/basket, but many do not have them: spray bottle with good water supply sun screen bug repellent trowel soft brush (paint brush or whisk broom) for sweeping off the stones that just have dirt/grass on top soft scrubbie (like teflon cleaner or soft vegetable brush) something to put down to kneel on like a plastic garbage bag grass clipper is needed occasionally garden gloves or rubber gloves have been known to come in handy Forest Lawn has much older burials, and we're anxious to get section 5 & 7 read this summer because there are very old, very weathered stones there. Some are already beyond hope, unfortunately. Karen

Hi everyone! I have a special request. I am in need of someone who can visit the various Nebraska online newspapers daily or at least every coupe days, who can copy and paste the obits and send them to me in a plain text file (please notepad only --- not Word). I can then abstract these to put online for the Nebraska Obituary Abstracts which is hosted by the NEGenWeb Project. My time has been somewhat limited and an assistant volunteer who can do this at least every couple of days, would be greatly appreciated by myself and others who are researching in Nebraska. Please contact me at NelliBlu28@aol.com if you can assist me as a volunteer. Updated the site today so we now have 415 pages online and more to be added as soon as time allows. http://www.rootsweb.com/~neobits/index.htm Thanks a bunch! Take care, Kathie Harrison Lancaster Co., NEGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/index.html

New! The Lincoln-Lancaster County Genealogical Society of Nebraska has now begun to add past Newsletter Articles. More will be added as soon as they are made available. We have also added another funeral card to our site. If you have funeral cards of folks who were from Lancaster County, Nebraska, you can submit a scan of the inside of the card to: Kathie -- be sure to contact me before sending the file. Please put FUNERAL-CARDS-NELANCAS in the subject line. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nellcgs/index.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~nellcgs/articles/index.htm Articles online today are: Married to whom? What Ever Happened to Luke Lavender? By Shawn Bachman If you would like to join the NE-LLCGS Mail List, please use these instructions To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE send a message with SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE in the SUBJECT line and body of the e-mail to: NE-LLCGS-L-request@rootsweb.com (LIST MODE) or NE-LLCGS-D-request@rootsweb.com (Digest mode) It is not necessary to subscribe to both. or visit the NE-LLCGS List Home page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/lists/ne-llcgs-l.htm This list is open to all those who have an interest in the Society, including announcements, conference and meeting schedules, membership questions, etc. This is not the place for questions on your specific ancestry or research but there may be a list member who can answer a question about membership. Please use research specific lists for those types of questions. There are many lists at Rootsweb with many categories of interest. See the Rootsweb Mail Lists Index http://lists.rootsweb.com/ Take care, Kathie Harrison Lancaster Co., NEGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/index.html

Hi, Obituaries from mid-June to mid-July 2004 have just been posted on Buffalo County NEGenWeb. The easiest way to see the new items there is to go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~nebuffal/ and click on Recent Changes. The BCHS has printed their Buffalo Tales 6 or more times a year since 1978, and they are available on-line, with an surname index. http://bchs.kearney.net/BTales.html While you are there, poke around and see what else they have on their site. Have a great week-end, and stay cool! Mona Meadowlark7@juno.com Buffalo Co. Coordinator, NEGenWeb Project - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nebuffal/ - http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~monajo/ Houser63@brick.net

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

Upcoming Meeting Program for Lincoln-Lancaster County Genealogical Society of Nebraska http://www.rootsweb.com/~nellcgs/index.htm Aug. 10, 2004 - Using Cemeteries/Mortuaries/Obituaries - Have you looked in every "death" record/resource in the area you are researching? This presentation will cover some of the "hidden" information you may find. Presenters: Ron Gaddis, Eva Bachman Meetings are at 7:15 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month in the Amphitheater, Dick Administration Bldg., Union College, 3800 S. 48th St., Lincoln, NE. Added to the web site today are Funeral Cards/Pamphlets. If you have funeral cards of folks who were from Lancaster County, Nebraska, you can submit a scan of the inside of the card to: Kathie at LLCGS28@aol.com -- be sure to contact me before sending the file. Please put FUNERAL-CARDS-NELANCAS in the subject line. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nellcgs/funeralcards/index.htm Take care, Kathie Harrison Lancaster Co., NEGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/index.html

Hello Lists, I am hoping to find death dates and/or cemetery information for 2 of my Holdeman line. Birth would be great also. They appear to be twins born and died about 1903 in Callaway, Custer Co, NE. Mary Jane HOLDEMAN Archer Howard HOLDEMAN Parents were Jeremiah W HOLDEMAN and Myra T COLBY Would sure apprecite any help! Marlaina Fritz Barr

Hi all! Well after waiting a month I finally have my new computer and am back online to update the web sites. Just updated today are NEBRASKA OBITUARY ABSTRACTS with 3 new pages and more to be added very soon. http://www.rootsweb.com/~neobits/index.htm LANCASTER COUNTY, NEGENWEB PROJECT will be undergoing a new look again and I hope to be adding more biographies to the site in the coming few weeks. Please be patient and in the meantime see what is already there. If you have any data relevant to Lancaster County, please contact me with the details to see if there is a place for your data! http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/index.html Hope you are all having a great summer and keeping cool! Take care, Kathie Harrison Lancaster Co., NEGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/index.html

“How To Record Your Family’s Oral History", will be presented by nationally known local author and oral historian, Barb Sommer. The Lincoln-Lancaster County Genealogical Society of NEBRASKA cordially invites you to attend this free program on Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at 7:15 p.m. in the lower level amphitheater of the Everett N. Dick Administration Building on Union College Campus ­ 3800 So. 48th St. Lincoln, Nebraska. Park free in any of the College lots east of 48th St. and make the short walk to the Dick Admin. Bldg. Look for our sign near lower level east entrance or take any of several other entrances and the stairs or elevator to the lowest level. Call (402) 489-9011 for any further information.

We have had a request to find living descendents of the following people as part of the 150th birthday celbration for Omaha. If you know of anybody, please let me know. William P. (Willie) & Rachel Snowden first permanent settlers, arrived July 11, 1854 Margaret Ferry, born October of 1854 John Logan & Caroline Mosier first marriage Nov 11, 1855 Jesse Lowe, first mayor elected 1857 Karen

LaVonne D. (Buettgenbach) Markley LaVonne D. (Buettgenbach) Markley, 74, of Augusta, former Beech Aircraft and Frye Chevrolet employee, passed away Friday June 18, 2004. Mrs. Markley was born in Lincoln, NE on April 23, 1930  she was the daughter of the late Harry and Anna (Oeltjenbruns) Schell. LaVonne graduated from Central High School and continued her education in business school at Lincoln. On April 22, 1951 she married Robert Buettgenbach in Wichita. He preceded her in death on May 29th. 1983.  On Dec. 21, 1986 she married Kenneth Markley in Augusta.  He preceded her in death January 2, 2004.  She was preceded in death by a sister Harriet Schell as well. Survivors include a daughter: Teresa Buettgenbach, Ft. Collins CO. grandchild: Elizabeth Buettgenbach; step sons & daughters in law; Darrell & Jeanine Markley, Augusta, Galen & Paula Markley, Linn Creek, Mo; step daughters & sons in law, Kathleen & Rex Cagle, Augusta; Debbie & Mark Heinrich, Carlsbad, NM; Brothers; Richard Schell, Roca, NE; Lawrence Schell, and Dwight Schell both of Lincoln; Sisters Carol May of Bennet, NE; Step Grandchildren & Spouses Amber & Aaron Buster, Orlando, FL; Dallas & Mitch Matthews, Minneapolis, KS; Stacy & Claib Harris IV, Melvern, KS; Bethany & Tim Starks, Kansas City, KS; Jeremiah & April Markley, Papua, New Guinea; Esther & Kevin Brown, Kansas City, MO; Leah & Grady  Burkhalter, Linn Creek, MO;  Melody & Ben Buethe, Lincoln, NE; Step Grandchildren Davin Markley, Manhattan; Kaleb, Kelsey & Colton Heinrich, Carlsbad, NM; Toni & Tami Usher, Augusta; Joshua Markley, Linn Creek, MO; Step Great Grandchildren: Claib V & Carley Harris; Madalyn Matthews, Jordan & Judah Markley, Briahnna Brown. Visitation will be 10-8 Tuesday with family present to greet friends 6-8 at Headley Funeral Chapel, Augusta, KS A Service to Celebrate her Life will be held 10 am Wednesday, June 23,  at Christ Lutheran Church, Augusta. Family request donations to Christ Lutheran Church 1500 Cron Augusta, Kansas 67010.

I am looking for information at to which Baptist church my ancestor, The Rev. William Darrow was the pastor in Peru, NEB in 1910 and what his years of service where to that congregation and whether it still exists today. The only information I have is that the 1910 census shows him as a clergyman in Peru. I know he was a Baptist clergyman. Thank you in advance for any information someone might have. Joyce Greineder jcgreineder@earthlink.net

'C' Groom Surnames from the Cedar County Marriage Index through October 1940 are now on-line. You can search the lists at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~necedar2/ Thank you goes to Carol Tramp and Dave Dowling for making these lists available. Kristi Bergman Lam

Hi List, Does anyone know who Emma Swoboda's (Svoboda) parents are? I have a friend who is trying to straighten out his Suchanek line and here is where we are at: Mike SAGANEK m. Emma SWOBODA their daughter, Anna is born about 14 Dec 1902. Anna is married around 1920 to a Mr. Mystery Smith. (Mystery is not his name, lol) She moves to Denver, Colorado and is soon widowed. On May 31, 1923, Anna Saganek Smith is married to Bohumil "Bob" SUCHANEK in Loup City, Sherman County, Nebraska. Don't know much more about Anna. The names of Mike Saganek & Emma Swoboda come from the marriage record in Sherman County, and are shown as Mrs. Anna Smith's parents. However, other data shows that Anna Saganek's biological parents were Cyrill Saganek and Anna Drabkova.  This family is from Kuzelov, Moravia (not Bohemia).  I am beginning to wonder if Emma Svoboda actually was Anna Saganek's mother.  Her brother, Jan Saganek, son of Cyrill Saganek and Anna Drabkova came to the US with Anna (his mother) in 1905.  also coming with them was Cyrill's younger brother, Metodej Saganek.  Cyril died in Chicago in 1906.  Then the Saganeks appear in Charlevoix, MI in 1910.  Metodej "disappears" and Mike now appears.  We are working on the assumption that Mike is actually Metodej and Chicago records confirm that. The Saganek family has ties to Chicago. Any suggestions or help is much appreciated. Laura

I was just informed today that there will be a delay in shipment of my new Dell computer until or before July 8th! Please do not send any genealogy related files until checking with me first. I will be unable to update the following websites until the new computer arrives. Lancaster Co., NEGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/index.html Lincoln-Lancaster County Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~nellcgs/index.htm The NEGenWeb Project's Ancestor's Sharing Center http://www.rootsweb.com/~neasc/index.htm The Denton Community Historical Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~nedchs/index.htm The NEGenWeb Project 's Nebraska Obituary Abstracts web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~neobits/index.htm Thank you, Kathie Harrison Lancaster Co., NEGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/index.html