I was checking some material in our obit index today at the W. Dale Clark library on 3rd floor and found 1900, 1901 & 1909 obit pages have been removed from the index notebooks (and the dividers that set them apart so it doesn't look as obvious that the materials are missing). I don't know who did it, but the library staff knows nothing about it. (Not only that, someone not long ago, mentioned that several of the obit cards on her family members had been stolen from the drawers--by someone too cheap to make a ten cent copy perhaps?) There are references to people from all of the above counties, as well as other counties within about an hour's drive of Omaha, although most are, of course, Douglas county references. Why someone just took the pages, instead of making copies, is beyond me, unless they decided to do the world a favor and post someone else's work on line. The library has permission to post the work on line, nobody else does. It will be going on the library web site, not rootsweb, or any other genealogy site. Please watch for new postings, and if any of you find obit references going up--know that the material was stolen and nobody but the library has permission to post our work on a web site. Please help us stop this kind of stuff. If it continues, this library will probably go to closed stacks as many other genealogy libraries across the country have done, and it will be harder to research here in Omaha as well. Thanks for watching with me, Karen ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.