There is a complete set of Omaha City Directories on the 3rd floor of the W. Dale Clark Library. They are located in the stacks along the wall to the right of the reference desk (if you are standing looking at the reference desk). City directories are useful when you're not sure when to start looking for someone moving in or out of a city, or perhaps dying between censuses, especially when there weren't vital records kept. In the early years, South Omaha is at the end of the Omaha city directories before 1915. Partnered with the descriptions of the areas located in census films, it can help you locate which of six census reels to find your family's neighborhood in if you are looking at the film census. (Yes, we have all of Nebraska censuses that have been released.) It can help narrow the search for tracking an ancestral occupation. You can track your family's employment history between census years, using the city directories. The directories started in 1866 and they have all available to the present time. No City Directories were made in 1867, 1869, 1871, 1873, 1875, 1882, 1919, 1920, 1924, 1927, 1930, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1969, 1988 or 1994. If you have Omaha ancestry, you're going to want to look at the City Directories. The library also has a few city directories for other places as well...but the main collection is naturally for Omaha. Karen