NEBRASKA AND MIDWEST GENEALOGICAL RECORD; VOLUME 9; PARTS 3 & 4; JUL. - OCT., 1931 ARTICLE: EDITOR'S CORNER PGS. 23-24; As transcribed by the submitters from the original publication. Submitted to the USGenWeb Nebraska Archives, February, 1998, by Ted and Carole Miller (susieque@pacbell.net). USGenWeb Project NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial researchers, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, nor for presentation in any form by any other organization or individual. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than as stated above, must obtain express written permission from the author, or the submitter and from the listed USGenWeb Project archivist. *************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE NEBRASKA AND MIDWEST GENEALOGICAL RECORD --------------------------------------------- VOL. IX LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JULY-OCTOBER, 1931 NOS. 3-4 --------------------------------------------- THE EDITOR'S CORNER It is with a feeling of deep regret that we announce the retirement from the Editorship of the Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record of Mr. Gilbert H. Doane, Librarian of the University of Nebraska. In tendering his resignation, Mr. Doane was influenced by the ultimatum of his physician that he lighten his work. A young man of genial, magnetic personality, he has made many friends in all parts of the country, who are hoping with us that his health may soon be entirely recovered. During his tenure the magazine has reflected his high ideals regarding genealogical research and literary form, and we desire that this standard may be maintained. Although Mr. Doane is retiring as Editor, we hope that his interested support may continue, and that we may have the pleasure of hearing from him from time to time in the magazine. In this issue will be found probate, marriage and school census records from the Court House at Lincoln. These records are printed to show what may be found at many a Nebraska court house. We are pleased to announce that Miss Nellie Schock of Falls City, Nebraska, will contribute early marriage records of Richardson County, and Mrs. E. B. Wescott of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, early records from Cass County, both beginning with the current number. As a part of our plan to make this magazine more useful in tracing the ancestry of the middle west, Mrs. Anna (Turley) Noland of Richmond, Kentucky, begins, in this issue, a series of contributions from Madison County, in which Boonesboro, the oldest settlement in Kentucky, is situated. Mrs. Noland is thoroughly familiar with the public records at Richmond. These contributions should be of especial interest, for a great number of pioneers went forth from Madison County, Kentucky, to settle throughout the west. Beginning with the current issue, we are publishing a larger proportion of the source material upon which family history is based. We do this believing that the printing of these records is the greatest contribution that this magazine can make to genealogy. An examination of the probate and marriage records in this number will reveal many connections with eastern families. No doubt the history of the western --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 THE NEBRASKA AND MIDWEST migration of American families will have to be written from western rather than from eastern sources. During the coming year we hope to mail the Record to our subscribers promptly each quarter. Believing that there is a distinct field for a genealogical magazine in the Middle West, we ask the co-operation of all who are interested in the preservation and publication of the source material from which family history must be written.