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.