October is Family History Month Join Greater Omaha Genealogical Society members in doing things to help more people access more information about people from our area. “Cast your Bread upon the waters, it will come back buttered.” Skip Ross In other words, do locally what others can't do for themselves, and someone, somewhere, will do something that will help you find YOUR ancestors. Last year we had over 500 volunteer work hours donated to make more records available about people living in our area. We'd like to do at least that much this year. Because not just members of the Greater Omaha Genealogy Society will benefit, we're inviting anyone in our area to help. (If you want to help, but don't live in the area, contact me and we'll see what we can find for you to do to help make more genealogy records available for people.) Projects we have already needing help: 1. Typing (some people can't get out to help, others hate to type--sounds like a perfect match. 2. High school & college year book collection & indexing (these year books will be at the W. Dale Clark Library when indexed) 3. Cemetery reading (these will be published so that people can access information about their ancestors from the markers...and when the cemeteries work with us, we also include the names of those who were interred without markers. One more added plus to our cemetery projects: we include interment dates if the stone has only a year of death OR if the person had no stone. It makes it easier to find an obit, or order a death certificate if the death certificates were kept at that time. IF the Society makes money from publications, more materials are purchased for the W. Dale Clark Library, and we all benefit that way as well.) 4. Marriage indexing 5. Obituary indexing from historic Omaha newspapers on microfilm Other projects that will help make more records available are welcome. We must get a copy of the records generated however, to have it count. To help: call 706-1456 or 346-6256 OR Email: OmahaMom@aol.com