The Lincoln-Lancaster County Genealogical Society will meet on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 at 7:15 p.m. The program for this meeting will be "Using Exciting DNA Tools for Family Genealogy". The Society meets in the lower level amphitheater of the Everett Dick Administration Building, Union College Campus, 3800 So. 48th St. Lincoln NE. This month's program will be presented by members Sharon Sawyers, Jan Jensen and Dewaine Alcorn, who have had some experience with DNA tools. The public is very welcome. The Union College campus is located in Lincoln's College View neighborhood on the east side of 48th St. between Bancroft and Prescott Avenues. Use those avenues to enter either of the campus parking lots which are east of the Dick Admin. Bldg. See the campus map on page 12 of the community pages preceding the blue page section of the Lincoln telephone directory. Call 489-9011 with any questions. Thank you, Kathie Harrison Lancaster Co. Coordinator, NEGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/index.html

Karen, I think the collection of funeral cards is a great idea. I am glad the G.O.G.S. is sponsoring this. I copied well over 100, maybe near 200 for you and will get them in the mail to you by early next week. I had just visited an elderly lady a couple months ago and she showed me her collection and I was awed. I told her very nicely that she better not throw those away! She told me she had already burned a big stack of them. I nearly cried! So, I was in her area again last week and I went over and copied them for you. I hope you'll keep getting a good response on this. And I also hope I can guarantee that your donor reached the $100 limit for a couple months! Good luck and Happy New Year, Laura

The December 2003 obituary extracts from Buffalo County Nebraska have been posted. See the index at http://rootsweb.com/~nebuffal/obit/2003/index.htm If you have old obituaries to submit -- or any thing else that would be of historical or genealogical interest relating to Buffalo County, Nebraska -- please contact me. Happy hunting in this new year!! Mona Meadowlark7@juno.com Buffalo Co. Coordinator, NEGenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nebuffal/ Houser63@brick.net

I have added a Links of Interest for Photos & Family Memorabilia page to the NEGenWeb Project Ancestor's Sharing Center. http://www.rootsweb.com/~neasc/index.htm This is a list of links to other sites that may be of general interest for those searching for old photos, family memorabilia, etc. If you have a link to add for this page, please contact Kathie Harrison with the site name and web URL. Please put ASC-PHOTOLINKS in the subject line. http://www.rootsweb.com/~neasc/photolinks.htm Thank you, Kathie Harrison NEGenWeb Project - Ancestor's Sharing Center http://www.rootsweb.com/~neasc/index.htm

LANCASTER COUNTY, NEBRASKA SCRAPBOOK updated today. The material on this page is intended for family memorabilia and county bric-a-brac that doesn't belong in any particular spot. If you would like to submit something for this page, please contact Kathie Harrison before sending any file attachments and to see if what you have can be placed here. It must have a Lancaster County, Nebraska connection. Please put LANC-SCRAPBOOK in the subject line. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/misc/index.htm Be sure to visit our PHOTOS section and see what is there! Many unidentified photos. Photos posted here are submitted by people who own the original and provide a scanned copy. If you would like a copy of the photo, please contact the contributor. If you have photos to contribute, please contact me, Kathie Harrison about any photos you have and any other details you consider important. Click on the highlighted text to view the individual photos. The people to contact are the hyper linked names at the bottom of each description. I have recently begun to limit the photos to 5 per submitter. Please be sure to put LANC-PHOTOS in the subject line. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/images/index.html Do you have old Lancaster County Obituaries to share? Please submit them to me in a text file or in the body of your e-mail message to me. Please put LANC-OBITS in the subject line. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/obits/index.htm HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! Thank you, Kathie Harrison Lancaster Co. Coordinator, NEGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/index.html

For your information: Joy Fisher wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > Looks like NARA is making some changes in their > ordering system. > > First off, Form NATF 84 for ordering land entry > records has been re-vamped. Orders submitted on the > old Form 84's are being returned along with a blank > new form NATF 84 and you are told to fill out the new > form and re-submit it. <big sigh> > > I just ordered some Forms on-line. > > http://www.archives.gov/global_pages/inquire_form.html > > When I get them I will scan both the new and the old > forms. In the meantime, I would suggest that if you > have any Form 84's lying around that you destroy them > and order a fresh batch. > > Second, you can now order military pension records > on-line: > > https://eservices.archives.gov/orderonline/start.swe?SWECmd=Start >

LANCASTER COUNTY & RAILROAD LAND CONTRACTS new on the DCHS (Denton Community Historical Society) web site. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nedchs/railroad.htm This online data base is for only a few contracts and more will be added as time permits. It will be noted that some acres appear to be purchased twice as some contracts show that earlier contracts were cancelled by purchaser. In addition to contract terms etc. there were several questions on the contracts (several forms were used) including place of birth, last residence and length of time in the U.S. and Nebraska. Not all contracts have these questions answered however. Many thanks to Teresa Sullivan for providing this data! DCHS Main pg. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nedchs/index.htm Thank you, Kathie Harrison Lancaster Co. Coordinator, NEGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~nelancas/index.html

Heads Up, I have just completed the overhaul of another NE book, this time the Beatrice Views book of 1913 and it has moved from LivGenMI to my MARDOS Memorial Library, part of www.USGenNet.org if you know anyone that is able to support the kind of data that we are keeping on line free to all, please send them to any of the projects on line I have on my sites. The Beatrice Views Book was at: http://www.livgenmi.com/1913NEBeatriceViewsTitle.htm The new address is : http://www.memoriallibrary.com/NE/Gage/Views/ I hope you all have a most Blessed Christmas and Happy New Year! Sorry if this is a duplication! Pam MARDOS Rietsch www.USGenNet.org is now going through its annual fund raising! We WANT to keep the data FREE to all but can ONLY do it with your help, and we will go dark without your support! Any amount is o.k.! Please tell your friends! www.LivGenMI.com Home of the 1895 atlas www.LivGenMI.com/1895 MARDOS Memorial Library many more historical maps & books for the U.S. in the www.MemorialLibrary.com www.ChaseGenNE.com Chase County Nebraska data www.ShepherdsVoice.org Home of Shepherd of the Lakes LC-MS Brighton MI. Come pay us a visit! www.HotShepherd.org Home of Heart of the Shepherd Lutheran Church Howell MI. Our new Daughter Congregation, come sample the flock! If you use any of the above or any of the hundreds of bits of information I have put on the net for you.....Your Obligation is to complete your "Hug Homework"! Pam - List Lady pam@livgenmi.com

Greets All! The York County NE Settlers & Biographies book of 1913 has moved to the MARDOS Memorial Library, Please change all links! The old address was: http://www.livgenmi.com/1913NEYorksettlerstitle.htm The new address is: http://www.memoriallibrary.com/NE/York/1913/ Slowly whittling down the pile of books so I can start adding new data,,,,been a long haul but am seeing the daylight! Have a most Blessed Christmas and Holiday Season! Pam MARDOS Rietsch www.USGenNet.org is now going through its annual fund raising! We WANT to keep the data FREE to all but can ONLY do it with your help, and we will go dark without your support! Any amount is o.k.! Please tell your friends! www.LivGenMI.com Home of the 1895 atlas www.LivGenMI.com/1895 MARDOS Memorial Library many more historical maps & books for the U.S. in the www.MemorialLibrary.com www.ChaseGenNE.com Chase County Nebraska data www.ShepherdsVoice.org Home of Shepherd of the Lakes LC-MS Brighton MI. Come pay us a visit! www.HotShepherd.org Home of Heart of the Shepherd Lutheran Church Howell MI. Our new Daughter Congregation, come sample the flock! If you use any of the above or any of the hundreds of bits of information I have put on the net for you.....Your Obligation is to complete your "Hug Homework"! Pam - List Lady pam@livgenmi.com

Hi all, I have just added 13 new pages of NEBRASKA OBITUARY ABSTRACTS. I want to wish you all a very Happy Holiday and will be updating the site again after the New Year. http://www.rootsweb.com/~neobits/index.htm Thank you, Kathie Harrison NEGenWeb Project - Nebraska Obituary Abstracts http://www.rootsweb.com/~neobits/index.htm

The following sites have been updated today. ANCESTOR'S SHARING CENTER -**Check the SHARE section: Photos from Eli, Cherry County, Nebraska http://www.rootsweb.com/~neasc/share/index.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~neasc/index.htm ========== DENTON COMMUNITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Southwest Lancaster County, Nebraska) Added page 2 of MARRIAGES 1900 Lancaster County ** Use the Drop-down box and click on the MARRIAGES pt.2 or to go directly to that page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nedchs/1900-marriagest2.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~nedchs/index.htm Many thanks to Teresa Sullivan for submitting this data. Thank you, Kathie Harrison NEGenWeb Project - Ancestor's Sharing Center http://www.rootsweb.com/~neasc/index.htm

http://www.rootsweb.com/~necedar2/ This is the last installment until after the second week of January.heading out of town for the holidays! Hope these are helpful to someone and thanks again to Carol! Happy Holidays to All!! ALBERS Ralph A. BEAGLES Ruth Anna Hall BECKER Helen Roeder BONERTZ Herman DOANE Grace E. Elliott DOUGHERTY Mrs. Joseph V. ETSCHEIDT Mary Pick GOEDEN Peter F. GRAY Wilhelmina F. Wells GRINDVOLD Wayne HENDRICKSON Dora Murkle HOESING Fred KATHOL Karl Francis KOCH Leonard F. KOLLARS Anna Halls MASKELL Effie Maude Wellington MATHEWS Mary Emily Curtis RICHARDS R.J. SCHIEFFER J. Jacob THOMSON Charles H. WIEBELHAUS Theresa Uhing

Pam; The links to the smaller town exchanges in the " Auburn Phone Book" are currently formatted like BrockExchange which doesn't work. The word Exchange needs to be removed to make them work. THANKS for all the wonderful information!!! Have a GREAT Holiday Season! Hugs, Les At 01:41 PM 12/17/03 -0700, you wrote: >Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 03:02:27 -0500 >From: "Pam Rietsch" <pam@livgenmi.com> >To: NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [NEBRRoots] Auburn Phone Book, Nemaha County NE moves to Memorial >Library > >Well If I can keep up at this pace I will be ecstatic. I just finished >moving the 1923 Auburn NE Phone book. This has wonderful ads, and a complete >all name index so if you think you may have had family in SE Nebraska at >this time, you may want to check it out, > > >The old address was: http://www.livgenmi.com/1923NEAuburnPhoneTitle.htm > > >The new Addy is: http://www.memoriallibrary.com/NE/Nemaha/Auburn/ > >Please change your links if you have any. > >Again, I ask if you had any links to the 1895 atlas to please check and make >sure they are updated. I am getting dozens of questions from people going to >sites I do not maintain asking why a link to the atlas does not work, and I >cannot answer them. > >Well on to another book,,, > >Thanks Again.. > >Pam > >Pam - List Lady pam@livgenmi.com Researching: SNODGRASS - OAKMAN - STARR - LaHUE - SETZER - DeLAY - ROSSMILLER - REMMERS - KIRBY - OLLER - and many others Omer Leslie Snodgrass II 68392 Presswood Dr. Twentynine Palms, CA 92277-5324 e-Mail: snodgras@cci-29palms.com http://www.snodgrass.info "Genealogy, the only hobby where dead people can excite you!"

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Greater Omaha Genealogy Society is going to be sponsoring a collection of funeral cards for the library. These cards/ memorial programs (you know, the ones handed out at the funerals) will be put in plastic sleeves in notebooks at the library, and sometimes we'll be able to find relatives that belong to us in them. In order to get as many as possible to make it worthwhile to start putting the notebooks out for use, we're going to ask everybody--anywhere--to make copies or send copies of extras they may have so that we can add them to the notebooks. So far we've got some from SD and PA in the collection, as well as Omaha area ones. We'll put in an index when we have enough to warrant it and will post on-line the names of individuals that we have copies from, in case any of you want to get a copy for your own records. These cards aren't created equal in information, because different people think different things were important. Stuff one MIGHT find: full name of the deceased relatives' names (some may have been pall bearers also) death date, possibly place funeral home cemetery (or information about cremation) birth date, possibly place marriage date(s) spouse(s) children parents' names church affiliation career & educational information when an obit is included To add incentive, for the next year, there is a donor who willdonate $1 to the library for books &/or films for each copy that is not already in the collection--up to $100 per month. If you don't live in the Omaha area, you may wonder why you'd want to help then--but if the materials are here, sometimes someone can look up things for you in those books. Or you can see them when you come visit. (Over 20 "new" items, and you can choose a county that we will try to find materials for that we don't already have.) We don't care if the individual didn't have a specific Omaha area connection--if you have a Nebraska connection, and this person is connected somehow to you--that's good enough for us. Lots of Nebraska folks are looking for people outside the state as well. If it isn't a Nebraska person though--please be sure the place is included on the funeral card somewhere. You can mail them to G.O.G.S., P O Box 4011, Omaha, NE 68104 Attn: Karen Thanks, working together, we'll all find more ancestors.

There are many new articles and photos that have been added to the Photo Album and When You and I Were Young pages at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~necedar2/ The following obituaries were posted today. Please let me know if you have any trouble viewing these. Thanks! Kristi & Carol ANDERSON Endres Nelson AUGENSTEIN Barbara BREWER Thomas BRUENING Lena BRUNING Joseph Sr. BURNS John B. CARTER Jane E. Smyth CHAMBERLAIN Robert T. EICKHOFF Elizabeth Bruns EMERSON Baby Girl EVERTON Twila Marlene FOULK Daniel HOBELHEINRICH John JOHNSON Anna Marie Caroline Jacobson JONES Lewis Evan Jr. KAST George KRAUSE Joseph H. LAMMERS Frank NOECKER Mrs. Paul (nee Winkleman) OLSON Daniel E. PHARES A. Fay PICK Josephine RITTER Mrs. John (nee Chamberlain) SCHAEFER Mrs. Peter SCHNEIDER Mrs. John (nee Kunz) SCHULTE Elizabeth Bruening "Lizzie" SCHULTE Lizzie THOMPSON Sarah E. Goodwin WHEELER David A. WINTERRINGER Mrs. James

Well If I can keep up at this pace I will be ecstatic. I just finished moving the 1923 Auburn NE Phone book. This has wonderful ads, and a complete all name index so if you think you may have had family in SE Nebraska at this time, you may want to check it out, The old address was: http://www.livgenmi.com/1923NEAuburnPhoneTitle.htm The new Addy is: http://www.memoriallibrary.com/NE/Nemaha/Auburn/ Please change your links if you have any. Again, I ask if you had any links to the 1895 atlas to please check and make sure they are updated. I am getting dozens of questions from people going to sites I do not maintain asking why a link to the atlas does not work, and I cannot answer them. Well on to another book,,, Thanks Again.. Pam www.USGenNet.org is now going through its annual fund raising! We WANT to keep the data FREE to all but can ONLY do it with your help, and we will go dark without your support! Any amount is o.k.! Please tell your friends! www.LivGenMI.com Home of the 1895 atlas www.LivGenMI.com/1895 MARDOS Memorial Library many more historical maps & books for the U.S. in the www.MemorialLibrary.com www.ChaseGenNE.com Chase County Nebraska data www.ShepherdsVoice.org Home of Shepherd of the Lakes LC-MS Brighton MI. Come pay us a visit! www.HotShepherd.org Home of Heart of the Shepherd Lutheran Church Howell MI. Our new Daughter Congregation, come sample the flock! If you use any of the above or any of the hundreds of bits of information I have put on the net for you.....Your Obligation is to complete your "Hug Homework"! Pam - List Lady pam@livgenmi.com

Greets, two more old books redone and moved from my Livingston County MI site over to the MARDOS Memorial Library where they should be under the proper state, county and category. For any of you who have not updated your links to the 1895 atlas please do so, I am getting tons of people complaining of bad links and they are usually from urls that are not mine but rather linked to mine. Normally the reason this happens is because people did not let me know they were linking and as a result I could not notify them when the site url changed. If you link, please do me the courtesy of letting me know so I can tell you in the future if something changes. Already I have seen sites that have linked to the new site but have not told me, I just heard it from people. If any of you are able we would appreciate any donations to USGenNet.org as they are how we keep free data on line without being a part of anything. I have placed a handy link on all of the front pages of the books I have on line and every state page for the 1895 atlas. Any amount is acceptable and much appreciated. Still have tons of books to go but will eventually get more new data on line. the first is the WWII Navy Records for the State of NE....I purchased about 20 of the states and hope eventually to get them all on line. the old link was...: http://www.livgenmi.com/1946NENavyWarCasualtiesTitle.htm the new one is: http://www.memoriallibrary.com/Military/WWIINavy/NE The other one is the History of the NE American Legion: The old link is: http://www.livgenmi.com/1922NEAmericanLegiontitle.htm The new link is: http://www.memoriallibrary.com/NE/Military/AL Have a most Blessed Holiday!!! Pam MARDOS Rietsch www.USGenNet.org is now going through its annual fund raising! We WANT to keep the data FREE to all but can ONLY do it with your help, and we will go dark without your support! Any amount is o.k.! Please tell your friends! www.LivGenMI.com Home of the 1895 atlas www.LivGenMI.com/1895 MARDOS Memorial Library many more historical maps & books for the U.S. in the www.MemorialLibrary.com www.ChaseGenNE.com Chase County Nebraska data www.ShepherdsVoice.org Home of Shepherd of the Lakes LC-MS Brighton MI. Come pay us a visit! www.HotShepherd.org Home of Heart of the Shepherd Lutheran Church Howell MI. Our new Daughter Congregation, come sample the flock! If you use any of the above or any of the hundreds of bits of information I have put on the net for you.....Your Obligation is to complete your "Hug Homework"! Pam - List Lady pam@livgenmi.com

Following is the list of obituaries from Cedar County NE newspapers (Wynot Tribune; Hartington Herald; Cedar County News) posted today. These obituaries span 1911 to 1966. Thanks go to Carol Tramp for researching these. BRANDRUP James BURBACH Mary Reuter CARNES Geraldine Marie HESSE Mary Agnes Eickhoff HUMPHREY Thomas W. JOHNS Eliza Jane Bailey KOCH Mary Mathilda Seltzer KRAMER Elizabeth Hous MARX Christine Hochstein MENG Matilda Nagaard MEIER Rudolph John MILLER William NICHOLS Mary Richardson REUTER Louise Gerke SCHULTE William "Willie" SIEVERT George THOENE John Anthony Sr. TYLER Alonzo L. WINGER Alfred

Hi Everyone, Am trying to locate any family, or anyone who knows anything about the above family. William Gustav THALKEN b. April 7, 1892 Nebraska, d. October 28, 1950 Los Angeles (possibly San Fernando Valley area). Father possibly John H. THALKEN b. Germany. NOTE; mother OR stepmother possibly named Mary FRAUKEN b. Germany. The 1910 census shows John as having been married twice and Mary once. Also stated she had 9 children with 8 living. Known siblings of William Gustave THALKEN in the 1910 census were: Fred H. age 28; Charlie age 23; Frank age 20 & George age 15. William was 18 in that census. From the looks of the marriages possibly only William and George were her natural children. She shows age 56 and first married age 37. William married Frances FLYNN, b. August 31, 1888 Minnesota d. May 15, 1979 in the same area as her husband. Father John FLYNN b. Ireland, mother Margaret TARPEY (TORPEY) b. Ireland. John was the brother of my Grandfather, James FLYNN b. Illinois. James and John's parents were James FLYNN and Jane Frances WYBRANT, both born Ireland. Siblings of James and John were: Thomas; Ann & Andrew all born Ireland. This FLYNN - WYBRANT family emigrated in late 1849 as Andrew was born circa 1848/1849 and the entire family is found in the 1850 Census in McDonough County, Illinois. THALKEN CHILDREN of William Gustav and Frances (5 known) were: John William b. October 10, 1917 Nebraska, d. November 22, 1989 Alameda County California; Thomas Theodore b. circa 1919 Nebraska; Lawrence (possibly Joseph Lawrence) b. January 2, 1920 Nebraska d. June 30, 1982 Sacramento California; Margaret b. circa 1922 Nebraska; Gerald b. circa 1925 Nebraska. They are located in the 1920 census in Melrose, Arthur County, Nebraska and 1930 census in Ogallala, Keith County, Nebraska. This family later moved to Texas (where Social Security cards were issued) and finally to California where several members of the family died. Thank you for any help you might be able to give me, Gretchen FLYNN (Formerly of North Platte, Nebraska) dddarwin@aol.com