Welcome to another G.O.G.S. site.
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. We find people have come here from all over the country to marry, and they are included if they have a license. Even those who got a license but did not marry are included because there may be critical information on the application.
NOTICE: Anniversaries will be moving soon to: www.milestoneanniversaries.wordpress.com Watch for us there. When fully operational, there will a link in the side bar, and anniversaries will no longer appear on this page.
Anniversary references will give the basic information included in the article, (the couples’ names, anniversary year; the reference to which paper it is in, and “pic” indicates a picture.)
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).
Whether you want a paper copy of the license or an emailed copy, the cost will be $5 to cover our costs. Mail your request, check &; address (email or snail mail) to: Greater Omaha Genealogical Society, PO Box 4011, Omaha, NE 68104.
or email TheGenLady@gmail.com ($5 per certificate or 6/$25–may be mixed with copies from other counties, or obits.) Requests are usually ready to mail/email by the time your payment arrives. Most of our material gets emailed out for quicker return.
You can also contact W. Dale Clark Library, 215 S 15th, Omaha, NE 68102. They charge $25 for 3 copies/half an hour research, limit ONE request of 3 copies per week.
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 for every thing, we also have reels of Washington county, NE, Sarpy county, NE marriages & several other counties, some of which we are indexing, 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 indexes. 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.
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.
