WHAT'S NEW IN CARROLL COUNTY:

 

10-16-2009
I reorganized the site today, so I hope none of you have lost too many of your bookmarks. Sorry if you have! Please do a new search to update.
Added the Lanesboro Cemetery monument (Lanesboro Monument) to the Military section.

10-14-2009
Added 2 new pages to the Military section, "Published Articles" & Jim Grettenberg's "Civil War Volunteers."
Added 7 new pages of marriages compiled by the Carroll County Genealogical Society (Page 1     Page 2     Page 3     Page 4     Page 5     Page 6     Page 7).
Updated page 4 of "World War I Soldiers" to include 1 newly contributed photo.
Reformatted, cleaned up the photos, re-linked, and added content to the lost school pages for  St. Augustine School, at Halbur.
Created an index for, reformatted and re-linked 16 lost biography pages.

04-12-2009
Updated Photo Gallery "Carroll County Memories" to include 1 new photo, beginning page eight!

02-22-2009
Reformatted, cleaned up the photos, re-linked, and added content to the lost school pages for  St. John School, at Arcadia;  Buck Run School; and
Carroll, Iowa - Schools.

02-14-2009
Created a Civil War Artifacts page to display the generous contributions of Kendal Green. Added contributions of Vance Tigges "1912 History of Carroll County, Iowa."  Volume II (2 Biographies), bringing the total online bios from this work to 31.

02-09-2009
Reformatted, cleaned up the photos, re-linked, and added content to the lost school pages for  St. Bernard Schools, at Breda.

01-22-2009
Reformatted "World War II Role of Honor," added the following: "World War I Photos," (A thru Eic, Eis thru He,  Ho thru O, R thru Z), World War II Photos, (A thru Ei,  Ei thru Ha,  He thru P,  R thru Z), "World War II Nine-Hundred Army Names," Korean War Photos (A thru E,  F thru K, L thru P, Q thru Z), Viet Nam Photos

01-20-2009
Added contributions of Vance Tigges "1912 History of Carroll County, Iowa."   Volume I  (Intro,  TOC, Chapters 24,  25)   Volume II (29 Biographies)

12-17-2008
Updated Photo Gallery "Carroll County Memories" to include 2 new photos, completing page  seven!

10-24-2008
Updated Photo Gallery "Carroll County Memories" to include 5 new photos, completing page  six, and  beginning page seven! Updated Obituaries to include 2 newly contributed, both to the "F" surnames page. (F)

10-18-2008
Updated Photo Gallery "Carroll County Memories" to include 4 new photos, beginning page six!

10-04-2008
Formatted and linked the newest work by our much appreciated prolific author and volunteer translator/transcriber/author, David Reineke, "DER CARROLL DEMOKRAT, 25TH ANNIVERSARY JUBILEE, Part Two: History of Carroll County."

10-04-2008
Updated Photo Gallery "Carroll County Memories" to include 2 new photos, completing page five!

06-14-2008
Updated Obituaries to include 2 newly contributed, one to the "B" surnames (B), and one to the new "T" surnames page. (T)

03-29-2008
Updated Photo Gallery "Carroll County Memories" to include 4 new photos.

03-19-2008
Found floating around the site, re-edited, and linked twenty-seven pages of family photos, by surname, that had been lost. See:
(A)   (B)   (C)   (D)   (E)   (F)   (G)   (H)   (I)   (J)   (K)   (L)   (M)   (N)   (O)   (P)   (Q)   (R)   (S)   (T)   (U)   (V)   (W)   (X)   (Y)   (Z)   (Unknown)

02-16-2008
Updated Photo Gallery "Carroll County Memories" to include 1 new photo, beginning page five!

01-19-2008
Formatted and linked the newest work by our much appreciated prolific author and volunteer translator/transcriber/author, David Reineke, "DER CARROLL DEMOKRAT, 25TH ANNIVERSARY JUBILEE, Part One: Introductions."

11-27-2007
Found floating around the site, re-edited, and linked five pages of obituaries, by surname, that had been lost. See:   (B)     (F)     (P)     (R)     (S)

10-26-2007
Updated Photo Gallery "Carroll County Memories" to include 2 new photos, completing page four!

10-21-2007
The 1906 Township Atlas project was initiated, including ten pages of information.

10-20-2007
Updated Photo Gallery "Carroll County Memories" to include 3 new pages-- 16 new photos!

07-30-2007
Updated Index of Gravestone Photos to include direct links to the GPP.

01-30-2007
Photo Gallery "Carroll County Memories" was initiated.

01-29-2007
THE GERMAN HERITAGE OF CARROLL CO
Table of Contents
by David Reineke
Chapter Three, Part One Added

01-14-2007
The "1870 Federal Census Transcription Project" was continued with Glidden Township.

01-07-2007
Two new projects have been launched:
The "1870 Federal Census Transcription Project" was initiated with Carroll City, Carroll Township Part A, and Carroll Township Part B.
The "History of Towns" project was initiated with Lidderdale.

12-29-2006
Vital record pages have been added: Marriages 1854-68, Marriages 1868-74, Marriages 1880-81, Births - 1880, and Deaths 1880-81.

10-17-2006
The 1922 Township Atlas pages have been redone, as have the Applications for Teacher Certificate.

08-12-2006
THE GERMAN HERITAGE OF CARROLL CO
Table of Contents
by David Reineke
Chapter Fourteen Added

08-06-2006
Carroll County Genealogical Society
Information page and link added.

07-30-2006
New county coordinator Ralph Leonard takes over. A "List of Cemeteries" site was created and linked.
Site is given a new look, many photographs are optimized, and several little problems like broken links are fixed. Some pages are re-written. Some editing was done. The search engine was brought up to date. He called his daughter because today is her birthday, and went grocery shopping. --Whew! Hi everyone! I am honored to be the coordinator for Carroll County!

05--2006
Bios translated from German language newspaper updated.
From Der Carroll Demokrat, a German-language Newspaper.  Published between about 1874 and 1920.  These bios are from a special 25th Anniversary Edition of  September 20, 1899

03--2006
THE GERMAN HERITAGE OF CARROLL CO
Table of Contents
by David Reineke
Chapter Two Added

03-18-2006
Site Brought Up To Date.  Lost pages back on line.  Search Engine brought up to date.

THE GERMAN HERITAGE OF CARROLL CO
Table of Contents
by David Reineke

02-20-2006
We have some bios back on the site, we hope to have more later. Almost everything that was on this site was removed by the last CC.  With the help of Bill Smith and Marilu Thurman we have got most of it back on.  Let's hope this never happens again.

01-19-2006
HISTORY
Two New Articles contributed by volunteer Marilu  Underberg Thurman.
Mt. Carmel Store & Mt. Carmel & surrounding areas. Our Lady Of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is also a contribution from Marilu.

 01-19-2006
CEMETERIES
Three Cemeteries transcribed by Frank Stanley.
Oak Hill, Old Carrollton & Union Township
This is valuable data for Carroll County researchers __ Thank you Frank!

 01-18-2006
GERMAN IMMIGRANTS TO CARROLL CO.
Translations from German Publications by David Reineke
1899 Biographies, German Family Obituaries, History from German Publications & Weddings, etc.
David is preparing more for Carroll Co.