LIBRARY/ARCHIVES WISH LIST
   The following list consists of interesting titles from or about Nebraska we were pursuing through online auction houses, rare book dealers, and donation requests. For various reasons we were unable to acquire them for our library collection. If you are aware of the availability of other copies of these titles please contact Library Curator Cindy S. Drake at 402-471-1786 or mail to: nshs05@nebraskahistory.org
   Ancestree Climbing in the Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, by E. Evelyn Cox, 1979. (Although this book is outdated, we would like a copy for our library to add to other Nebraska research books compiled by Mrs. Cox.)
   Annual Report City of Alliance Nebraska for the Calendar Year 1934, also one for 1935. (We have 1923, 1933, 1937, 1941, and 1945.)
   The Arts of Costume and Personal Appearance, by Grace Margaret Morton, 1943. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York. (Ms. Morton was an associate professor of Home Economics and head of Textiles and Clothing Division, University of Nebraska.)
   Cooking With Peace, by Peace Lutheran Church, Waverly, Nebraska, 1993.
   Corn-Farm Boy, by Louis Lenski, 1954. Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.
   Correct Store Equipment for Variety Stores, from Store Kraft Mfg. Co. in Beatrice, 1915.
   Disaster 1952, by Dick Harris and Bob Donovan from WNAX radio. (Thirty pages of photographs about the Missouri River flood in South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa area).
   Einspahr Family Tree, by Byron B. Einspahr, 1990. Published by Gateway Press.
   Favorite Recipes St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Plymouth, Nebraska 100 Years 1880-1980, compiled by Members of the Church.
   Fremont City Directory. (We do not have the year 1961 in our collection.)
   George Doll's Seed and Nursery Company Victory Garden Catalog, 1942 Spring edition, Columbus, Nebraska. (We do not have any catalogs from this company.)
   Hereford Family Favorites, a Collection of Favorite Recipes From the Members of the Nebraska Hereford Auxiliary, 1979.
   Homes of Comfort, from Adams & Kelly Co., Omaha, Nebraska, 1930. (We have reference to Volume C, but we do not have any of their volumes of house plans.)
   Illustrated History of Lincoln County, Nebraska, and Her People, two-volume set published in 1920 by The American Historical Society. (We have one copy of this set and would like an additional copy for our collection.)
   Looking at the World Through the Scientist's Eyes, 1942. Published by Warp Publishing Company, Minden, Nebraska.
   Meat Tops the Menu, presented by the National Livestock and Meat Board at the 1936 University of Nebraska-Aksarben Livestock Show.
   Official Program of the Fourth Annual Fairbury Chautauqua, August 1908, Fairbury, Nebraska.
   Parks' Songs of the South, Number 1. For male voices, published by the J. A. Parks Company, York, Nebraska, 1896.
   Phantom Homestead, by Otis Dunbar Richardson, 1975.
   Pioneers Dream in 1882. History of the city of McCook, Nebraska, from 1882 to 1932, published by the McCook Daily Gazette.
   Primer of Parliamentary Practice, by Awana H. Slaker, State Parliamentarian, Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs, 1936. (We have a 1927 edition.)
   Omaha Board of Trade Annual Reports. (We have reference to the fourteenth report, which was for the years 1890-91. We do not have any of these reports in our collection.)
   Saint Margaret Mary's Autograph Cookbook, collected and arranged by the Guild and Altar Society, 1937.
   Sonderegger Nurseries Garden Catalog, 1930, by Sonderegger
   Nurseries and Seed House, Beatrice, Nebraska. (We have 1929, 1935-39.)
   Special Song Book of the Buffalo Bill's Combined Wild West Great Pawnee Bill's Far East. (Sixteen-page songbook, 1910-12, containing tunes from their show.)
   Standard of Perfection for Domesticated Land Fowl & Water Fowl, published for & by The American Poultry Association, Buffalo, New York, and printed by Jacob North, Inc., Lincoln, Nebraska, 1969 edition.
   Successful Hairdresser, by Kathryn Wilson. Published by the California School of Beauty Culture, Omaha, Nebraska. (We have a reference to the 6th edition.)
   Twenty-Second Automobile Directory, Kearney County, Nebraska, 1958, by the Minden and Axtell Merchants and Professional Men.
   Wilson Family History and Genealogy. Printed in the early 1950s by the Nebraska Beacon Print, sixty-four unpaginated pages. (No stated author.)
   Winging It! by Jack Jefford, 1990. (Reference to barnstorming days in Nebraska.)
   Wonderful Dolls of Paper Mache, by Jo Elizabeth Gerkin, 1970. Published by Doll Research Associates, Lincoln, Nebraska.

CURRENT EXHIBITS IN THE LIBRARY/ ARCHIVES
   The Library/Archives Division maintains six small exhibit cases in the main hallway of the Society headquarters building at 1500 R Street. These changing exhibits highlight documents and photographs from the Library/Archives collections. Current exhibits are: That Time of Mental Awakening: Willa Cather's University Years; A Nebraskan Goes to NATO: General Alfred M. Gruenther; The Rest of the Story: The Halls of Hallmark; and Music from the Soil of The American Midwest:: Howard Hanson. Additionally, two exhibits describe services and materials offered by the Library/Archives.

March 2000 Note: Web addresses have been hotlinked. When the original address given has failed, the hotlink has been eliminated. When we could find an alternative URL, it has been added in square brackets & is marked with asterisks.

LIBRARY/ARCHIVES WISH LIST
   The following list consists of interesting titles from or about Nebraska we were pursuing through online auction houses, rare book dealers, and donation requests. For various reasons we were unable to acquire them for our library collection. If you are aware of the availability of other copies of these titles please contact Library Curator Cindy S. Drake at 402-471-4786 or E-mail: nshs05@nebraskahistory.org.
   An Awful Name to Live Up To, by Jessie Hosford, 1969. (Juvenile fiction by a Nebraska author).
   Belle, A Scottish Lass, A Colorado Pioneer, by Alice Taylor Bamford, 1988. (A nonfiction account of the life of Isabelle Hamilton Taylor, who grew up in Nebraska and Colorado in a sod house with eight siblings).
   Dandelions, by Eve Bunting, 1995.
   Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company, Beatrice, Nebraska, Publications: General Catalogue No. 12, 1928, Dempster Mill Mfg. Co.; Running Water for Better Farming Better Living (no date given).
   Dundee Presbyterian Church, Fiftieth Anniversary Cookbook, 3rd ed., compiled and edited by the Women's Auxiliary 1951. (We have the 1930 ed.)
   Eaton's True Blue Contest Speller, by the Omaha School Supply Company, 1934. (We have the 1948 ed.).
   Industrial Drawing Handbook for Teachers in Common Schools, 2nd ed., by Ida A. Tew, supervisor of drawings in public schools, Beatrice, Nebraska, 1897.
   Ladies Aid of M. E. Church Cook Book, 1908, copyright by Mrs. W. R. Sanner, printed by the Lorain Banking Company-Lorain Printing Company W. R. C. of Lorain.
   Northwestern School of Taxidermy and J. W. Elwood Supply Company Publications: Chieftan Brand Taxidermists Supplies Catalog #123, 1953; Lessons on Taxidermy. A Comprehensive Treatise on Collection and Preserving all Subjects of Natural History, by Prof. J. W. Elwood, 1905; Northwestern School of Taxidermy, Omaha, Nebraska, Catalog No. 96, Taxidermists' Supplies, 1940; Northwestern School of Taxidermy, Omaha, Nebraska, Nebraska Taxidermy Taught by Mail, 1930 brochure.
   Map and Street Directory of Omaha, 1950.
   Official Course of Study for the Elementary Schools of Nebraska, Grades I-VIII, 2nd Printing, November 1941, by Charles W. Taylor, state superintendent of public instruction. (We have the 1895, 1899, 1902, and 1903 editions).
   Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends, held at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, in 1874. (Reports and finances from district meetings, which include a section on Indian affairs dealing with Sioux Indians in Nebraska).
   Omaha's Bell, by Penny Hayes, 1999. (Fictional book about frontier days in Omaha).
   Our Favorite Recipes Old and New, 1931-1933-1971, by the Lexington Mrs. Jaycees, Lexington, Nebraska.
   Phantom of Organic Evolution, by George McCready Price, professor of geology, Union College, Nebraska, 1924.
   Recipes From the Martha Gooch Kitchens, by Gooch Food Products Co., Lincoln, Nebraska, 1960.
   Tasty Tips, compiled by The Papio, Prancers Square Dance Club, Papillion, Nebraska, 1996.
   Wimmer's 50th Anniversary Cookbook: Exciting, Easy, Economical Recipes Using Wimmer's Fine Sausage Products, 198-.

   Donations are still being accepted for an additional $235 to purchase the 1999 Supplement to the Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, Part II. We have received the advertisement for the 2000 Supplement that will also have Part 1 and Part 2. If purchased before December 31, 1999, each volume would be $228 plus shipping. Please indicate this title with your monetary donation. Thank you.

New Acquisitions of Interest to Genealogists

   Back in Those Days, by Ruth E. B. Anderson. (Borg and Anderson family in Dixon County.)
   The Holm Family: Three generations, compiled by Bill Beck. (Family in Custer County.)
   The Kunz Family, compiled by Linda R. Newberry.
   (Dettman, Gustin, Hettrick, Kaczmarek, Swarts, and Meyerhoff families in Cass and Kimball Counties.)
   Lainson Family History: History of the Lainson Family of England, United States of America, Canada and Australia, compiled, researched, and written by Geraldine T. L. Clement. (Lainson, Faunce, and Guill families in Adams, Douglas, Burt and Otoe Counties.)
   The Root Family Story, by [Gad B. Root]. (Family in Saline County.)
   Family History of Joseph Anton Sand (Joseph Sand): A Nebraska Pioneer, Immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1838, compiled by Paul F. Sand. (Family in Otoe County.)
   A Guide to Research for Butler County, Nebraska, [compiled by Rosalyn Chmelkal and published by the Nebraska State Genealogical Society.
   The Story of My Life, by Eula Jean M. H. R. Nowels. (Hering, Russell, and Seaman families in Red Willow County.)
   [Ign. Klima, Sr. Family Album], by [L. G. Klimaj. (Czech American family in Valley County.)
   Vencil Krikac Family, by [L. G. Klima]. (Czech American families of Krikac and Klima in Custer and Valley Counties.)
   The Laytons: A Westering Family, by Mike Layton. (Layton and Barger families in Scotts Bluff and Custer Counties.)
   Phelps County, Nebraska, Marriages, compiled by Dick and Marjorie Dyas.
   Vojtech Klima Family, by [L. G. Klima]. (Czech American families of Tvrdik, Klema, Voracek, Klima, Puffer, and Vsetecka in Valley and Custer Counties.)
   Thomas Vodehnal Family, by [L. G. Klimaj. (Czech American families of Vodehnal, Kluna, and Sich in Valley County.)

LIBRARY/ARCHIVES WISH LIST

   The following list consists of interesting titles from or about Nebraska we were pursuing through online auction houses, rare book dealers, and donation requests. For various reasons we were unable to acquire them for our collections. If you are aware of the availability of other copies of these titles please contact Library Curator Cindy S. Drake at 402-471-4786 or e-mail to: nshs05@nebraskahistory.org.
   Bicentennial Cook Book of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church of Elwood, Nebraska, 1975.
   Columbus, Nebraska, Illustrated, Francis Nichols, Publisher, 119021.
   Cooking Fun Community Cookbook, by ORI Elementary School staff members, parents, students, and friends, Bennet, Nebraska, 1980.
   Forbears' Fareing: A Family Record of the Occupation of America, by Otis Dunbar Richardson, 1970. (Chapter on MacCuaigs in Nebraska, etc.)
   Max Geisler Bird Company of Nebraska Catalog, 1914-1915.
   My Glimpses of Family Past, by Ron Kennedy. (Kennedy, Smith, French, Turner, Van Epps, families etc., traced through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska.)
   Kaleidoscope Pictures, by Brenda Groelz (Phillips, Nebraska: Gray Wind Publishing, 1992). (Quilt designs)
   Odes, Hymns and Songs of the G.A.R.: One Hundred Popular Ballads of the War: Songs That Were Sung on the March, Around the Campfire, and in the Prison, By the Loyal Men of Freedom's Grand Army, compiled by James H. Kyner, 1882. (We have the 1880 ed.)
   Tried and Tested Recipes, contributed by members and friends of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Wayne, Nebraska, 1926.
   Vasomotor Control, by Dr. M. B. DeJamette, Nebraska City) 1931.

   City directories for cities or towns usually include the names and occupations of the residents, as well as lists of all the businesses in town. City directories help you locate an ancestor in a specific locality at a specific point in time. They are useful in locating families in federal and state censuses when the census records are not indexed. The address will help you locate the precinct or ward on maps (sometimes printed within the directory) of the city. With that information census guides should help you locate the enumeration district number for the area in the city where the family lived so you have to check only one district in the census records to locate your family. City directories often indicated if an individual was an owner, renter, or boarder. If they owned property, the address helps in locating property and tax records.
   City directories before and after 1900 included only the head of the household, the address, and the occupation of the person listed. Later directories included other members of the household, as well as telephone numbers. Some directories included a separate section where the streets are listed alphabetically, followed by the house numbers and the name of the resident (a "reverse" street directory). This section is useful in locating other relatives or friends who may have lived in the same area.
   Reviewing multiple years of city directories for the same family will help you determine when they arrived (especially for immigrants), address changes, and if they left, the year they were no longer listed. The year of death for the head of the household may be determined when after several years the name changes to another member of the household. There are some directories that even included the names and death dates of residents who died the previous year.
   Always check city directories for other information besides surnames. The major features can include street and business directories, advertisements, information regarding civic and social institutions, hospitals, cemeteries, orphanages, etc. If you locate the names of churches that were nearest to the address where your ancestor lived, you can contact them (if they are still in existence) for records regarding your family, or the church archives for that denomination.
   City directories normally were published every year and in most cases were printed on cheap paper. Most city directories and gazetteers from the 1800s and early 1900s may be crumbling, and in some cases the only way they have been saved is if local, state, and national organizations or publishing companies have preserved them on microfilm or microfiche.
   Past and present city directories should be in the town or city public library, local and state historical societies, as well as in regional and national libraries such as the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress has its list of city directories for nearly seven hundred American cities, towns, and states, on the following website: https://wiki.rootsweb.com/wiki/index.php/Overview_of_Church_Records. Some other repositories with large collections of city directories include the Family History Library in Salt Lake City; Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana; New York Public Library in New York City; and the New York State Library in Albany (http://unix2.nysed.gov/genealogy/citydir.htm). In some cases the collections of these libraries may include not only original volumes, but microfilm and microfiche of city directories from such companies as Research Publications, Inc. (a division of Primary Source Media which microfilmed city directories before 1861 for the fifty largest cities in the U.S.) and Heritage Quest. Primary Source Media at
https://www.gale.com/search-results?q=city+directory&pageSize=20&page=1 has posted more than two hundred city directories on its website. They are posting more directories from later years, but at present they have ninety nine major cities posted from the year 1859. Although some free search is available at this site, you must subscribe to have access to the entire collection.
   In the NSHS Library we maintain a collection of city directories for Nebraska. Early city directories for Lincoln, Omaha, and Hastings are available on microfilm (up to the 1940s for Omaha and early 1970s for Lincoln and Hastings). They are available in their original format for later years for these three cities and for Beatrice, Kearney, South Sioux City, Fremont, Grand Island, North Platte, Norfolk, Nebraska City, McCook, Falls City, and Scottsbluff. The years we have are available on request. We plan to have the list available on our website later this year. Our holdings in some cases are incomplete, so we are always willing to review donated copies for gaps in the collection. Please contact me if you are aware of city directories that might be available as donations. I am still seeking donated copies of the Lincoln City directories after 1996.
   Update: I mentioned a URL in my January/February column for The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy (rev. ed.) which is no longer active. The current URL is
https://wiki.rootsweb.com/wiki/index.php/The_Source:_A_Guidebook_to_American_Genealogy.

New Acquisitions of Interest to Genealogists

   Tapestry: A Partial History of Some Pioneer Families of Polk County, Nebraska, by Hazel M. Cunningham. (Also includes the Burritt and Pointer Families.)
   The Norland Family Tree, 1824-1979, [compiled by Orville A. Norland). (Norwegian American Families in Garfield and Custer Counties.)
   The Steinauer Family Tree, compiled by Mary Susan Miles, with the help of Katherine Anne Wehrbein and Martha Mae Miles. (Family in Pawnee County.)
   Vincent Family Records, compiled by Sheridan E. Vincent and Cecil LaVerne Vincent. (Families located throughout Nebraska.)
   Finding a Place Called Home: A Guide to African American Genealogy and Historical Identity, by Dee Parmer Woodtor, 1998.
   The Carpenter Ranch: Cyril Carpenter's Sandhills Ranch at Whitman, Nebraska, 1908-1995, by Gloria L. Hayden and Eugene B. Hayden. (Families in Cherry and Buffalo Counties.)
   Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor, by Bertram H. Groene, 1996.
   William and Elizabeth Dalton: [In the Beginning], by Jean D. Harper. Family in Webster County.)
   Diary of George McKinney Dunkle: August 25, 1862 to November 29, 1864; 112th Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company D, transcripts by Mary W. Greenwald. (Family in Cass County.)
   Joseph Hansel Family, [compiled by Harold and Mae Hansel]. (Families in Lancaster and Gage Counties.)
   Marriage Records, Dodge County, Nebraska: 20 Apr. 1910 to 07 Oct 1912, by Clarabelle Mares for the Eastern Nebraska Genealogical Society, 1999.
   The Census Book: A Genealogist's Guide to Federal Census Facts, Schedules and Indexes, by William Dollarhide, 1999.
   Urbanek Family History: 250 Years (1745-1995), [compiled by Bill Urbanek]. (Czech American Family in Stanton County.)
   The Williams, Prince, Norman, Cox and Allied Families, [compiled] by John Mitchell Williams. (Families in Douglas County.)

March 2000 Note: Web addresses have been hotlinked. When the original address given has failed, the hotlink has been eliminated. When we could find an alternative URL, it has been added in square brackets & is marked with asterisks.

   County records are found in most local courthouses throughout the United States. The most commonly used records for genealogists include vital, marriage, deed, and probate records. The original records are found in county courthouses, except when they have been transferred to local historical societies or state archives. Usually this occurs after they have been commercially or privately microfilmed. Many county records have been microfilmed by the LDS Church, making them available in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and its branches worldwide.
   Copies of official vital records such as births and deaths may be available at the county level, but many states (including Nebraska) maintain them only at the state level. Marriage records are usually located in the counties, but may also be on file at the state level (as in Nebraska) after a certain time. They are usually found in the county where the couple was married or in a neighboring county. There should be a Direct Index (to names of the grooms) and an Indirect Index (to the names of brides) in the same or separate books.
   Deeds transfer title in real property from one owner to another. Researchers use the Grantor (Seller) and the Grantee (Buyer) Indexes to locate individuals in these records. Tax and assessment records also record property information. Probate records are created at the time someone dies to settle the estate. If they include a will they usually mention the deceased's children, which helps identify family members.
   In early years, variant spellings of surnames should be checked. Place names were misspelled, and political boundaries were changed, so one might have to search the courthouses of two or more counties to find a particular record. County seats also changed, and a courthouse may have been burned or flooded. The Handybook for Genealogists by Everton Publishers provides information about county formation and specific county records.
   For more information about county records consult The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy by Val D. Greenwood (several chapters, including one titled "Court Records"); The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy edited by Lou Scuzs and Sandra Luebklng (still in print as well as available at https://wiki.rootsweb.com/wiki/index.php/The_Source:_A_Guidebook_to_American_Genealogy. See the chapter titled "Research in Court Records"); County Courthouse Book by Elizabeth Petty Bentley. (This title covers the type and availability of key courthouse records and their services. It is also available on CD-ROM under the title The Genealogist's All-In-One Address Book and includes Benfley's other two books, The Genealogist's Address Book and Directory of Family Associations.)
   I am making a one-time appeal for donations to purchase the book Meyers Ors-und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs (with researcher's guide and translations of the introduction, instruction for the use of the gazetteer, and abbreviations by Raymond S. Wright III). This massive gazetteer was originally published 1912-13. It "describes approximately 210,000 cities, towns, hamlets and dwelling places in the German Empire prior to WWL It is an essential tool for locating information about every inhabited place in the former Empire." Because of the number of German immigrants to Nebraska, this would be a useful source in our Reference Room. A special price of $259 for the three volumes is available through June 15. If you wish to contribute towards this purchase, send your donation to my attention at our address with the notation "Meyers." Thank you.

LIBRARY/ARCHIVES WISH LIST

   The following list consists of interesting titles from or about Nebraska we were unable to acquire for our library collection. If you are aware of the availability of copies of these titles please contact Library Curator Cindy S. Drake at 402-471-4786 or E-mail to: nshsO5@nebraskahistory.org.
   Better Gardening, Easy Manufacturing Co., Lincoln, Nebraska. (Catalog of garden machinery from the early 1930s.)
   Cedar Rapids, Nebraska, 1884-1984. (We have one copy in our collection and would like to locate a second copy.)
   Country Kids Cookbook, Wallace District #60, Hastings, Nebraska, 1993.
   Dawson County, Nebraska, Atlas and Plat Book, 1979-1980.
   The Disguised Wayfarer and Other Stories of Swedish Pioneer Life in America, by Just Adolph. (Published in 1926 by the Covenant Book Concern of Chicago. There are references to places in the Midwest including Nebraska.)
   Favorite Recipes. Published by The Ladies Aid of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, Twenty-third and N Streets, Lincoln, Nebraska. (Danish recipes, date not given.)
   Iowa Beef Processors, Inc. An Entire Industry Revolutionized!, by Dale C. Tinstman and Robert L. Peterson, 1981.
   Nebraska American Legion Auxiliary Culinary Gems, 1989.
   New Reconstructions in the Yale Peabody Museum. Merycoidodon gracilis Leidy, Merycoidodon culbertsonii Leidy, Daphoenus vetus Leidy, 1923. American Journal of Science, Vol. VI, No. 32, pp. 91-99. (Offprint of the American Journal of Science regarding oreodonts and the rich paleontology of the Nebraska Tertiary fauna.)
   Saline County, Nebraska, Plat Book, 1949. (Published for the Saline County Farm Bureau.)
   Some Principles and Rules for Right Eating Formulated From the Teachings of Viola Mizell Kimmel, 1922. (Mrs. Kimmel was from Creighton, Nebraska.)
   United Methodist Church Cookbook--Members and Friends, Aurora, Nebraska, Community Cookbook, 1995.
   Woman's Club Cook Book, compiled by the Bassett Woman's Club, Bassett, Nebraska, 1930.