On Friday, October 2nd, Omaha Public Library and the Greater Omaha Genealogical Society are holding their first ever Genealogy Lock In. On that evening, while other library patrons are being shooed out the door, the genealogists that are there will be settling down for some serious research. The doors to enter will be locked before 6:30 PM that night, so be very sure you're not late or you won't be able to enter (you can leave at any time. To be sure that you have a name tag so that you can stay: email _Sahara346@aol.com_ (mailto:Sahara346@aol.com) and give me your full name. Every one else will be headed for the door and out by six PM. The Lock In officially ends at 9:30 PM, so we'll have to leave by then. Reasons to come to the Lock In? 1. 2 librarians on duty who are going to be focusing just on genealogists 2. 14 computers with Ancestry & other genealogy web sites available & just waiting for us to visit 3. Over 8,000 genealogy books in the book room (including Roger Minert's German genealogy books that we purchased at our conference last spring that finally made it out of cataloging.) 4. Marriage microfilm from about 20 Nebraska counties--mostly through about 1900, but much later for Douglas & Sarpy counties. 5. Wide selection of historical Omaha newspapers on microfilm. 6 Genealogy newsletters from over 125 genealogy societies around the country available to explore for your family. 7. Complete set of Germans to America & several other ethnic immigration book sets 8. Complete set of Omaha City directories, (and several other cities on microfilm) 9. Obit clipping file from 1977 through Jun of 2008 10. Naturalization index for Nebraska and some 60+ IA counties (alphabetical) 11. Interment data bases on several Douglas county cemeteries 12. Church records from several Omaha historic Churches on microfilm 13. Historic clipping file on Omaha history & people (these are only accessibly by asking the librarians) 14. GO-PAF people available to answer genealogy computer questions 15. GOGS volunteers available to try help solve genealogy problems Coffee & cookies as a snack will be available. There will also be a donation jar to help pay the guard's salary (one of the requirements to have the lock-in.) If we get more than is needed for the guard that night, we'll buy more materials so that we all find more ancestors. If we don't get enough to cover, the Greater Omaha Genealogy Society will pay the cost. For those who do not live in Omaha Public Library's area and so don't have a card (and don't have a Council Bluffs or Lincoln Library card), come early and get a one day guest card for $2. This will allow you to use the computers, plus give you five free copies (you can put more on your card if you think you're going to make more copies.) Come early and have more time to look at things. Check out the card catalog at _www.omahapubliclibrary.org_ (http://www.omahapubliclibrary.org) to see some of the things that you might want to use when you come. Hope you can come join us. Karen PS: Because of budget difficulties, we can't promise at this point whether the library will be open on Saturday or not. We'll let you know as time goes on.
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