This past week here in Omaha, there were three of us extracting obituaries from newspapers and marriages from the filmed licenses at the W. Dale Clark library. We got a lot done, and more is yet to come with what has been extracted, but not yet formatted for the web sites. Thanks go to Nancy and Michele for all the help. The marriage site has over 25,000 marriages now. It is an index, so there is more information on the actual marriage application & license than is on the site. There's two main reasons for this: 1. time it takes to extract everything, and 2. space to post it all. For better or worse, we figured that people would rather have more names to choose from, because it gives a better chance of getting THEIR family posted than if we post everything and only got 1/10 of the information up. Sorry, if we're wrong about that. We've also added some anniversaries printed in the newspaper that were pulled when we extracted obits. _www.omahamarriages.wordpress.com_ (http://www.omahamarriages.wordpress.com) Be aware that there are marriages for people who lived in Council Bluffs & other places in IA, other places in Nebraska outside Douglas County, South Dakota, Kansas, Illinois & points East, who chose (for whatever unknown reason) to marry in Omaha/Douglas County. So if you can't find someone's marriage in the home county where you expect them, at least check out the site in case you recognize the name. One never knows. (We expect that the 25,000 names is just the tiny tip of the ice burg...there are only a very few films done, and over 200 to go through. Anybody want to help by doing reverse typing for us?) Coming soon at the obit site with the next upload will be obit references from an Omaha paper called the American Citizen. This is an Italian language paper. Nancy and her husband Frank are working on these for us. If you recognize a name, you have to realize that getting a copy of the article is going to give you something in Italian. We do not provide translation services, nor does the library. (I do know somebody who speaks the language & just returned from Italy working on her Master's degree, but don't know if she'd be willing to, or have the time, to do translation for people. I will ask.) We are discussing the possibility of extracting other material (marriages, births, etc.) from the paper for a G.O.G.S. publication dedicated solely to material indexed from this paper. Given the amount of data and years covered, it's likely that it would only be an index. If you would be interested in getting a copy of such, contact me off list so that I can present it to the board when we discuss the possibilities. _www.omahaobits.wordpress.com_ (http://www.omahaobits.wordpress.com) There will also be references to "new" obits from 1910, 1954 & 1958, & 1977 that were collected this week. It was a profitable week for those of us who extract data so that everyone can find more ancestors. Happy ancestor hunting! Karen **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)