Welcome to our site. It’s been growing rapidly, and we’re happy to see so many wedding guests dropping by to visit.
Here’s a chance to put your thinking caps on. As of 1 Sep 2008, we had 36,349 postings. When will we put up our 100,000th marriage entry? Put your guess date in the envelope when you order marriages from G.O.G.S. (P.O. Box 4011, Omaha, NE 68104) and the one who comes closest to the exact date will win a year’s membership to G.O.G.S. and a free marriage copy. One guess date per order, and the first guess for a date will be the one counted. (You can put in first choice & second choice dates if you like, in case the first date you pick is already taken.) Brenda B. has agreed to keep track of the guesses, so that those responsible for posting aren’t influenced in any way by what folks are guessing. Deadline for posting your guess: 31 Dec 2008.
Want to help? We can use help from people willing to do marriage reversals (putting the bride’s name first & the groom’s name second) Each page takes about 45 minutes to do (depending on how fast you type). Email Sahara 346@aol.com if you’re willing to do a page a week or so for us. (Some do more, some do a couple pages a month.)
This may be a slow growing site, as our primary focus right now is on our Omaha Obits site. This site is an index to marriage licenses at the W. Dale Clark library on microfilm, and anniversary announcements from the papers, gathered as we index obits.
Anniversary references will give the basic information included in the article, (the couples’ names, anniversary year; the reference to which paper it is in.)
Indexed marriage licenses will give both the bride & groom’s names, sometimes their ages, the month &, year of marriage, and when applicable, the marriage license number (be sure to include that if there is one). If you want a paper copy of the license, the cost will be $5 to cover copy & postage. If you will be satisfied with an emailed copy, the cost will be $3. Mail your request, check &; address (email or snail mail) to: Greater Omaha Genealogical Society, PO Box 4011, Omaha, NE 68104.
Please be as specific as possible as to which marriage you want, as there is going to be more than one person with the same or similar name, especially as the site grows. The early years do not include a certificate number, although more recent ones do. Check for nickname forms of the name as well, if you believe someone you’re looking for was married in our area, but not appearing in the index.
We have access to many marriage licenses not yet in our index. We have marriage films up through about 2005. (They aren’t all in the card catalog, but they are here and useable.) There is no index available yet past 1932 other than what you find here, although there is a filmed index prior to 1932. The only newspaper notices for anniversaries available at present are here on line as far as we know. If you have an approximate date, we can look for an anniversary item, but won’t make any guarantees. Not everyone had an announcement, and usually they were milestone anniversaries like 25, 40, 50, etc. Regular GOGS research fees apply. Please understand that some of the unindexed years have several reels of film for a single year, filed numerically instead of alphabetically, so a date is very important for your budget, and our researchers success in finding your certificate(s).
Be aware that while we don’t have indexes, we also have several reels of Washington county, NE and Sarpy county, NE marriages, so if you have a date, we might be able to find a license copy for you. Regular G.O.G.S. research fees apply to any not in our index. For other Nebraska counties that we have microfilmed marriage records to, go to the www.Omahapubliclibrary.org web site and check the card catalog. Again, no indexes at the present time are available.
Some of the anniversary announcements/stories have pictures [pic]. Not all of them do.
NOTE: We’ve run across at least one missing marriage book so far, although it isn’t a total loss. The marriages ARE in a microfilmed index. It will take awhile to pull the appropriate ones out of the index, and they’ll be on a separate page in our index when we get them collected and put together. As the microfilm stands, it gives full name of one person, and only last name of the other, so we’ll often have to wait to be as complete as we want to be before posting names. Repeat, there is no marriage license microfilmed for those individuals in the missing book.
We have also noticed that on some marriages, the name Ginseppe/Ginseppa appears. While we believe that it was misspelled in the record, we’re trying to maintain integrity of the original. As with all ethnic names, be creative with possible alternate spellings. What appears in our record may not be our typographical error, but a clerical error at point of origin. If you do find something you question in spelling, let us know and we’ll check. Although, if we’ve made a mistake, it may take awhile to get it fixed, as we have to go to the library to check.
Happy hunting.
