We've got 60,000+ names extracted from Omaha newspapers, and when the Library recently decided they weren't going to be able to get it up any time soon, we went looking. Wordpress suits the needs very well for now. This is definitely a work in progress. Not only will more names be added as they're extracted from newspaper microfilms, but the current content will be fine tuned (we have some that are duplicates from consecutive days, etc...and they will be removed. Different papers for the same individual will not be taken out.) If you come to the W. Dale Clark library in Omaha, this material is in notebooks in the genealogy book room by individual years. Because of the number of pages (nearly 1000 when combined), they will not be combined into a single data base because of printing costs to add more names to a given year when there are lots of pages. If you are coming to Omaha, do a cut & paste for the names that you're interested in if you don't want to check when you get here, because once a data base is over 10 pages, I don't bring a reprint down until I've added another 10 pages (if what we've collected is more than the 10 page parameter, we do add 11 or more pages at the same time with the current update, so the # of pages may be odd numbers more than 10.) New names are added to a holding file until we can get them into the individual year printouts or on-line. It would be difficult to say which is the more current public copy at any given time. To use this site efficiently, here are some things to know: 1. Years are combined. Know when your person died approximately. Many names are very common and the only way to tell them apart if you don't know much about them is the death date or cemetery (though sometimes families did NOT stick to one particular cemetery.) Spouse (& parent names for under 21 & single) are included usually, if given in the obit. (Although not always in the earliest ones that we extracted, sorry.) 2 * means more than one day's paper. *** means 3 more days in that edition of the paper...such as a total of four days in the morning paper. The first appearance of an item may not be the most complete...but information is combined in our index for the edition that it appears in. Sometimes, there are news stories with more information each day. There may be a day or two skipped before the obit is repeated in some cases. And page #'s aren't given for additional days. 3. Although we're generally calling it an "obit" index, PLEASE understand that we're taking anything that indicates somebody died and putting it in, because, especially in the early days, it was not common to put much of anything in the paper unless a person was prominent in the community, or if it made a "really good news story". It's as if the three or four lines were used as "filler" to take up space. That's why you will get Lodge notices (LN), death certificate notices (DC), Cards of thanks (COT), even items that appear in the gossip column that indicates something like: Mr. & Mrs. John Jones were in Omaha for the funeral of their nephew, Harry Bronson. And sometimes, the death certificate notice may give a more complete name than does the obit. 4. Other than people who died in the immediate Omaha area and may have been taken anywhere for burial, we're also extracting names for people that the papers report dying anywhere within about an hour to an hour & a half's drive of Omaha...on either side of the river. Just because you think you're folks are strictly Iowa, doesn't mean they didn't show up in an Omaha paper, even in the early days. Here's the web address and happy hunting. _http://omahaobits.wordpress.com/_ (http://omahaobits.wordpress.com/) Karen ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com