Genealogy

Find birth, marriage, and death records, as well as military records and more from Ancestry Library Edition, the largest general collection of genealogical information. 

ArkivDigital is Sweden's largest and most extensive online archive of digitized original records for genealogists.

Explore the world's largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources. Many restricted images may only be viewed at the Genealogy & Local History Room, the only FamilySearch Affiliate Library in Nebraska. 

FIMo is a research portal to find and view high-definition, color Fire Insurance Maps, Real Estate Atlases, Plat Books, and other historical maps showing building structures, building construction details, property ownership, property uses, and other useful information.

Fold3® features premier collections of original military records. These records include the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served in the military. Many of the records come from the U.S. National archives, The National Archives of the U.K. and other international records.

MyHeritage Library Edition includes birth, death and marriage records from 48 countries, the complete U.S. and U.K. censuses, immigration, military and tombstone records and more than 3 billion family tree profiles. Due to the ongoing content contributions by individual users, the database grows at an average pace of nearly 2 million records each day.

Newspapers.com™ is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 894 million+ pages of historical newspapers from 24,400+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond. Newspapers provide a unique view of the past and can help us understand and connect with the people, events and attitudes of an earlier time.

An index to marriage licenses issued in Douglas County, Nebraska.

An index to obituaries and death notices in Omaha papers. Included are people whose item indicates that they may have lived within an hour to an hour and a half away from Omaha, but appeared in the Omaha newspapers.

The Omaha Star, in existence for over 70 years, has been Nebraska’s largest African American newspaper. Search the archives from 1938-2011.

Search the Omaha World-Herald from 1878-1983 in the Gilbert M. and Martha H. Hitchcock Omaha World-Herald Digital Archive.

Looking for the Omaha World-Herald? NewsBank gives you free, instant access to the World-Herald's digital microfilm from 2018-present.

The world's largest catalog and another way to discover resources available to you beyond Omaha Public Library.