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8 June 1998 7 P.M.-Mares Meeting Room 1722 East 19 - Fremont Nebraska PROGRAM:
Shall we try for the March Program
BROWSE NITE: 22 June 1998 7 P.M. This is our last month for meetings
until September.
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The program for May, which was arranged for by the Platte Valley Civil War Round Table and held at Clemmons Chapel on the Midland College campus was something everyone should have attended. Dr Desjardin spoke on "Gettysburg-20th Maine at Little Round Top" and a delightful speaker with humor added into his story. There were other Round Table members from Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska in attendance, along with our group. The attendance was a nice size and after his presentation, it was opened to questions. Well done!! | ||||||||||||||||
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An Amish boy and his father were visiting a mall. They
were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny,
silver walls that could move apart and back together again. The boy
asked his father, "What is this, Father?" The father responded, "Son, I
have never seen anything like this in my life. I don't know what
it is."
Borrowed from Greater Omaha Gen Society May 1998 |
AMERICAN PLACE NAMES OF LONG AGO
HOW TO FIND ALMOST ANYONE, ANYWHERE
1890 Nebraska State Gazetteer covering Dodge Co NE Business &
Farmers List
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| This May meeting fell right into Claire's visit to Keokuk Iowa the
last week end of April. She and her sister, Annette lived four days
back in the 1862 era. They attended a two-day Battle of Pea Ridge.
This is re-enacted each year at the end of April at Rand Park in Keokuk
Iowa. The Memorial Services at the Keokuk National Cemetery on Sunday
morning was a very emotional service.
Claire presented Beginning Genealogy May 2nd at the West Point John
Stahl Public Library in the morning and the afternoon was chaired by Cynthia
Monroe from the Nebraska State Historical Society, who explained the use
of the Family Tree Maker on your computer and the use of Internet.
Total of 54 for registration, and all were in attendance.
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 Something new
is happening with the ENGS "ROOTS & LEAVES" - it will be done on the
computer and then printed up. The time has come to put our 1957 mimeograph
to sleep. We either have problems of not finding the ink (then some
appears) or the manufacturers tell us the stencils are no longer being
made. We have combed the U.S. for them. Claire's supplier said
he is not able to get them anymore-so she is trying out the new way, with
Renee Bunck as her assistant.
I told you May was a busy month! |
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| The Internet Connection
by Renee Bunck
Ready for more online Land Records? The Bureau of Land Management
- Eastern States, General Land Office have made Land Patent searches available
for the shaded states below, with a promise of more to come. The
web page www.glorecords.blm.gov/
is easy to use and requires only a
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If you have not checked out the NEGenWeb Online Library at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/OLLibrary/index.html you will be pleased to find early issues of Nebraska Midwest & Genealogical Record and early Journals of the Nebraska State Historical Society are being published online. The 1918 Journals were titled "Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days". To give you an idea of what is included, here is the Table of contents for the first of eight 1918 issues: Vol. I. no. 1 - February 1918 Our New Publication: "Nebraska History and
Most of the eight 1918 Journals are available online and 1919 is underway.
An Alphabetical Topic List of the online issues is also offered.
 On other NEGenWeb
county pages, you might find an early census list, marriage or even cemetery
records. We are hoping to be able to provide some of these types
of records on the Dodge County page also. Query and Surname pages
grow constantly with people looking for information and offering to share
what they have. For those without web access, we will try to
keep printed copies of many of these lists available in the ENGS library.
Be sure to come on Browse night and see what is available! |
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 New and exciting
things are happening on the NEGenWeb county sites also. New records
are added daily to each of the county pages and many of these are indexed
in the USGenWeb archives for easy searching. Chasing a "dead-end"
ancestor in Nebraska? Help may be available on the World Wide Web!
Most of the NE counties now have the 1890 Gazetteer Business and Farmer
lists on line and some have posted the official 1917 WWI draft lists.
Watch for the draft list for Dodge County- it is currently being typed
by a new volunteer. |
This photo found in the June 1907 Fremont Tribune. |
Return to the Dodge county NEGenWeb site
name
and a state to begin a search. The results of the search will include
a list of matching names, locations, and dates of the corresponding
land patents. By selecting one of the names from the list, it is
possible to learn more about the legal description of the parcel
of the land.