FamilySearch.org has a new FREE database titled NEBRASKA, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, FUNERAL HOME RECORDS, 1919-1976 which includes 10 people documented as being born in Greece.   The digital images in this collection are of records from the Miller and Landa Funeral Home, 1919-1976, and from the Wildy Funeral Home, 1920-1950. There are records available for you to view online for the following: Gust Demetro Allison Basilios Meligonis John Dealis Louis Alexander Matthews Coula Condos Alexander Matthews Contilia Pappageorge Theodore K. Zaliaris George Chikos Gust Blackos Funeral Home records may contain: Name at death Death date Cause of death Name of spouse Name of nearest relative Birth date Funeral date Obituary Residence at time of death Burial date Cemetery of interment

New York Times headline on Feb 21 1909. DAILY NEWS RECOUNTS THE SOUTH OMAHA GREEK TOWN  RIOTS OF 1909 Published in The National Herald, April 20, 2019 ------------------------------ I am excited that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ NEW YORK – The New York Daily News recently recounted the history of the infamous Greek Town riot of 1909 which took place in South Omaha and led to nearly the entire Greek population fleeing from the city at that time. The article, Justice Story: Fearmongering and racism drove Greek immigrants from Nebraska by David Krajicek, cites the 1964 master’s thesis by the late historian John G. Bitzes from the University of Nebraska, Omaha, titled “The anti-Greek riot of 1909: South Omaha.”  The National Herald also reported on the historic riot in an article about more recent discrimin...

GREEK IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST By Helen Papanikolas Published in the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Year 1989 Pages 16-34 ----- "In the migration and settling of the West, women as well as men kept journals.  During their covered-wagon journies, while settling in wildernesses, ploughing the virgin earth, and raising families, they wrote, often poignantly, and enriched our knowledge of those epic days.  In the Greek immigrant past we have but one journal written by a Greek male sojourner in the first years of this century we have no journal by a Greek immigrant woman to tell us of her life far from urban sanctuaries, the Greek Towns of the East. "The reasons are twofold.  Greeks come from an ancient oral tradition.  In song and poetry, they told of their story, what little they knew of the ancients, of the days of Byzantium, and of their bondage, first under the Venetians, then under the Turks.  Secondly, few women in ...

Article published in the Omaha Daily Bee, December 12, 1915 OLDEST OF ORTHODOX RELIGIONS IS HERE Omaha Greeks Worship according to Rites of Their Ancient Church Under Guidance of a  Priest Ordained Under Shadow of Olympus Sixteenth and Martha streets, Omaha, in 1915 doesn't seem to have anything in common with the Olympic games of Greece, 700 years before Christ.  Still less with Hercules, hero of Greek mythology, whose life is merged in the mists of prehistoric times. But there is a close connection. On the southeast corner of Sixteenth and Martha streets stands the Greek Orthodox church, the only one of its kind in Nebraska, and one of only five in the country.  A black-bearded man with long black hair was sent out by the Holy Synod of Greece at the request of the Greek communion organized in Omaha in 1907.  From his ancient native land he came to the new World and to a new part of the New World, bringing with him the religion that is...

Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, February 22, 1909 MOB USES TORCH IN SOUTH OMAHA ----- Thirty Houses Occupied by Greeks and Other Foreigners Destroyed During Race Riot. ----- SCORE HURT IN BATTLES ----- Members of Legislature Address Anti-Alien Meeting and  Fan Trouble; Slaying the Cause. ----- Omaha, Nebraska, February 21 - [Special.] - Three persons were shot, a score of others injured by heavy missiles, and thirty houses partly destroyed by fire and axes as the result of race riots between hundreds of men of South Omaha and the members of the Greek colony there. There were two mobs concerned in the affair, a second crowd renewing the attack tonight after the first had been dispersed by the police in the afternoon.  There have been fifteen arrests made and the police are guarding the Greek settlement to prevent a third outbreak. As a precaution the South Omaha fire and police board tonight issued an order that all saloons i...

Published in  The New York Times,  March 5, 1909 OMAHA GREEK HAS MRS. HEINZE’S PEARLS ---------- Says He Found Them Outside the Knickerbocker Hotel, Where He Was a Sweeper ---------- THOUGHT PEARLS GLASS ---------- He is Arrested for Trying to Sell Them –  Necklace Was Lost on Thanksgiving Night. ---------- OMAHA, Neb., March 4 – John Savis, a Greek railroad laborer, was to-day arrested in Omaha for having in his possession a pearl necklace, the value of which has been variously estimated from $30,000 to $100,000, and supposed to have been lost by, or stolen from, Mrs. Otto C. Heinze at the Knickerbocker Hotel, New York City, on the night of Dec. 26, 1908.  The Greek to-night is in the city jail, while the necklace lies in a safe deposit vault awaiting positive identification. Savis claims to have been formerly employed at the Knickerbocker as a sidewalk man, and says he found the necklace in the driveway, about the middle of December...