Category Archives: Obituaries
New Listings Now In Color
Yes, it’s out with (New) when indicating a new listing, and in with the entire listing in color to indicate the same. And of course, only the most recent upload will appear in color. Previous uploads will appear in boring black.
New Search Feature Added
Entering a name or a date in the search box at the top of the sidebar to the right, will give you a list of all the pages on this site the information appears on. Clicking on one of the items will take you to that page. Unfortunately, the search engine does not highlight the [...]
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WE’RE HAVING A CONTEST!
As of this writing, the Omaha Obits site contains close to 150,000 listings. Sometime this year (2009), we’ll go over the 200,000 mark. To celebrate that milestone, we’re having a contest, open to all those who submit an obituary order, to guess the exact date that we post the 200,000th listing on this site. Here’s [...]
Blank Pages
Just a note and a little info about the occasional appearance of blank pages on this site: we think we’ve found and solved the problem. When this site was originally being built, website propaganda assured us that page length was unlimited. However, we’ve discovered there seems to be a limit after all. When a blank [...]
New Obit Source – American Citizen newspaper
The 31 July 2008 upload includes extractions from the American Citizen newspaper. This is an Italian language newspaper, so any obits you order will be in Italian. We don’t provide a translation. The abbreviation for American Citizen will appear as AM CIT in the listings. There will be more obits from this source posted in the future.
Don’t Forget…
…to also take a look at our “Additional Listings not from Newspapers” section (shown in the sidebar at right). Numbering over 1700 listings, these are comprised primarily of death listings from early Omaha City directories. 
Omaha Obits Index – Introduction
For information on how to obtain copies of any obits listed in this index, click [here]. This site is maintained and updated several times per month (usually on weekends) by the Greater Omaha Genealogical Society. This is an index to obituaries and death notices in Omaha papers. We have included people whose item indicates that they may have [...]
How to use this index:
Searching for a name: Searching for a name on this site works the same as if you were searching for a name in a document on your word processing program. Brief instructions are below. Click on the appropriate letter of the alphabet to the right. The link will take you to the page whose names [...]
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