Notes:
Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States. It is the county seat of Douglas County. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 390,007. According to the 2006 census estimate, Omaha's population rose to 427,872, which includes an extra population count of approximately 8,300 people by annexing the smaller city of Elkhorn. Located on the eastern edge of Nebraska, it is on the Missouri River, about 20 miles (30 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River. Omaha is the anchor of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. Council Bluffs, Iowa lies directly across the Missouri River from Omaha. The city and its suburbs formed the 60th-largest metropolitan area in the United States in 2000, with an estimated population of 822,549 (2006 residing in eight counties or about 1.2 million within a 50 mile (80 km) radius.
The city grew on the Missouri River, with the first settlement extending from the Lone Tree Ferry crossing from Kanesville, Iowa in the early 1850s. The beginning of the city included the vigilante Omaha Claim Club, as well as early leaders of the Nebraska Territory, of which Omaha was the capital until 1867.
At the turn of the century Omaha was known as a "wide-open" city, meaning that anything went, particularly under the administration of Mayor "Cowboy Jim" Dahlman and political boss Tom Dennison from the late 1900s through the 1920s. After rapid increase in immigrants and the doubling of African American population between 1910 and 1920, the city's social and racial tensions erupted in the lynching of Willy Brown in 1919. Continued problems with discrimination led to the development of a strong civil rights movement.
Omaha earned its nickname, the "Gateway City of the West", because of its central location as a transportation hub for the United States in the late 1800s. The development of railroads made Omaha a critical hub for trade and industry. It was a an industrial powerhouse into the mid-20th century, with the second largest stockyards and meatpacking industry in the world, and the fifth largest grain and milling center. Structural changes in the railroads and meatpacking industries affected Omaha seriously, causing the loss of more than 10,000 jobs in mid-century.
Matches 1 to 11 of 11
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Birth | Person ID | Tree | ||
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1 | Austerlitz, Adele Marie | Thursday 10 September 1896 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I684459 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
2 | Austerlitz, Frederick | Wednesday 10 May 1899 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I684456 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
3 | Brando, Marlon | 1895 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I673550 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
4 | Brando, Marlon | Thursday 03 April 1924 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I673549 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
5 | Fonda, William Brace | Wednesday 12 February 1879 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I258240 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
6 | Ford, Gerald Rudolph | Monday 14 July 1913 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I192829 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
7 | Hauge, Johnnie | Friday 05 June 1891 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I450160 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
8 | Hauge, Lizzie | Tuesday 25 April 1882 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I450158 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
9 | Hauge, Martha Christine | Tuesday 31 March 1885 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I450156 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
10 | Hauge, William Morris | Wednesday 01 June 1887 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I450159 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
11 | Levison, Marjorie Ann | Monday 10 July 1922 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I322215 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
Matches 1 to 5 of 5
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Death | Person ID | Tree | ||
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1 | Austerlitz, Friedrich Emanuel | 1924 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I684458 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
2 | Fonda, William Brace | Monday 07 October 1935 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I258240 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
3 | Hauge, Johnnie | Friday 05 June 1891 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I450160 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
4 | Jaynes, Elma Herberta | Friday 05 October 1934 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I258241 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
5 | Mathiesen, Anna Johanna | Sunday 01 June 1919 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | I450154 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
Matches 1 to 1 of 1
Family | Marriage | Family ID | Tree | ||
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1 | Brando / Pennebaker | Saturday 22 June 1918 | Omaha, Nebraska, USA | F256665 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
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