ARNOLD, Randall; 55; 25 Oct 1903 WH eve p 7 (Creston, IA) BLOSS, Bertha (Miss); 23; 25 Oct 1903 WH eve p 3 BURKE, Earl; 12; 25 Oct 1903 WH eve p 3 CARLSON, Walter Robert; 8y 7m; 27 Oct 1903 WH eve p 8 Mount Hope* CLARK, (Mrs. George); 27 Oct 1903 WH eve p Laurel Hill* CUDD, Rudolph; 3; 27 Oct 1903 WH eve p 2/DC CULIANE, (Mrs. William); 25 Oct 1903 WH eve p 5 Plattsmouth, NE ELLINGTON, Mary Depp; 19; 28 Nov 1903 WH eve p 2/DC HASS, Elizabeth O. (Mrs.); 56; 25 Oct 1903 WH eve p 2/DC HASS, Elizabeth V. (Mrs. David S.); 24 Oct 1903 WH eve p 8 Prospect Hill HOWARD, George W.; 24 Oct 1903 WH eve p 7 Shenandoah, IA JOHNSON, Olga Teres; 12y; 25 Oct 1903 WH eve p 8 Forest Lawn* KAHNER, Herman; 28 Nov 1903 WH eve p 2/DC LORENZEN, Henning; 82y 5m 14d; 27 Oct 1903 WH eve p 7 * MANNING, Mary (Mrs.); 76; 27 Oct 1903 WH eve p 2/DC MATTERN, Phillip; 53; 27 Oct 1903 WH eve p 8 German Catholic ODEGARD, Andrew; 28; 25 Oct 1903 WH eve p 2/DC PETERSON, Elizabeth (Mrs.); 38; 25 Oct 1903 WH eve p 2/DC PLASTERS, Davidson; 76; 24 Oct 1903 WH eve p 11 Walnut Grove, Brownville, NE PLATT, Gales; 71; 27 Oct 1903 WH eve p 2/DC RAHLMER, Henry; 1; 27 Oct 1903 WH eve p 2/DC RICKLY, (Mrs. Charles E.); 27 Oct 1903 WH eve p 1 RYNES, James; 42; 25 Oct 1903 WH eve p 2/DC SIMERAL, James Montgomery [Maj.]; 80; 27 Oct 1903 WH eve p 8 * STEWARD, Edgar W.; 30; 25 Oct 1903 WH eve p 2/DC WELLS, Harriet L. (Miss); 24 Oct 1903 WH eve p 8 Glidden, IA* YULE, Sherman A.; 24 Oct 1903 WH eve p 8 Forest Lawn* We're intensifying efforts this winter to get more of the Omaha area papers indexed for obits & death notices. If you live in the Omaha area, and would be interested in helping, whether for volunteer hours, or just to help the genealogy community at large, let me know. Training will be provided. If you only want to read the papers & extract the information, we have people who will type. If you are only interested in typing, let me know that too. We’ll be using the papers available at the W. Dale Clark library, and although any year and any paper can be indexed, a special focus is being placed on the ones with issues from 1900 through 1910, and 1940s. A few, like the Catholic newspaper, are weeklies. We have a German newspaper, so if any of you know enough German to recognize names & the fact that the article is an obit, we need volunteers for that one as well (although we may make a separate index for all names in the German papers & pull obits for the obit index so they’ll be in both places, especially if we can get enough volunteers to handle it.) We’re looking at possibly putting out CD rom indexes in 5 year increments (paper for the World Herald 1900 through 1909 only has already reached 49 pages, and we only have a couple years complete and all of the February evening edition obits done, hence the split, and including as many papers as we have access to for each time frame.) The CD roms will be made available for a nominal fee when each five year period is finished. Funds over expenses will go to purchase more materials for the genealogy department. (Silly folks, the city council challenged Rivkah Sass the director to build a national class genealogy library, but didn’t increase her library budget. Like it is going to come with someone twinkling their nose???) Incomplete portions to the index are available in notebooks in the book room at the library, and they will get copies. Some smaller genealogy libraries have all their newspapers indexed. It’s a great help to people who don’t know when a relative died, where they were buried, or any other information. It’s a way to give back as thanks for those who have done work that have helped you find folks, or will help find folks, when money isn’t exchanged. Working on this counts as volunteer hours for the library, and the number of genealogy volunteer hours sends a definite message to the folks upstairs that we definitely care about the collection. It can count as volunteer hours for scouts and youth groups who need community service as well. Let me know if you can help, training is available. Karen