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Post a query, biography, obituary or document of any genealogical interest. Des Moines County Board (Rootsweb) Be sure to credit sources and to post one message at a time. How
to write a good query While supporting our state boards, you may post highly detailed queries here.
CPP project permits one to post or review tombstone photos. Submit or view tombstone photos. Please post one cropped photo at a time.
This section will include histories at state, county, township and town level. Sectional Histories, including townships, towns and ghost towns. Townships by Cay Merryman.
Were your ancestors from Ireland? Many Iowa emigrants came from Scandinavian countries and Germany. If you have a good link to dispora in Iowa from other countries, we will add that link here.
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Documents collection will include old letters, family groupsheets, tax records, census, marriages between 1834 and 1919, newspaper editorials, applications for citizenship, and more. This is a collection under constant updating with new material. Census records extend back to territorial days. Histories of geographical
areas, natives of Iowa and this county leaders. Several categories here. Eventually we will transcribe every cemetery. Your help is welcome. Gravestone Registry 1930 WPA did not register any of the gravestones here. Add your marriage records to this section. Early settlers traveled to their nearest courthouse to sign a documents of intent to become a U.S. citizen. Des Moines County Bios by Rootsweb Some obits were provided by local newspapers and others were provided by visitors.
There are over 2,000 photos to this copywrited photo set. New photos are processed and put up every month. We hope you find relatives in these photos. Cards from all over Iowa.
If you own resources for this county, please become a lookup volunteer.
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FAMILY GROUP SHEETS |
The following families emigrated from Holland and Cuba.
Karten in Dutch is a map.
A map maker provided these maps of their homelands.
Add your family history here.
Your County Coordinator is donkelly since 1997. How and when I got into genealogy. donkelly
alternate email
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STATE PROJECTS |
Old Press
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CIVIL WAR COUNTY RECORDS |
ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR
Iowa Pre-civil war Militias
With sections for:
WWI including casualties
from Des Moines County, IA
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ASSORTED DOCUMENTS |
This wagon train left to the west from Burlington, Iowa.
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MAP SERVICES |
Burlington area
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IOWA NATIVES STORIES |
Great grandmother Williamson Beebe told these Indian stories.
Other Indian stories provided by history loving contributors.
Irishmen became Indian Chiefs
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MY IOWA FAMILIES |
WILLIAMSON and BEEBE:
These ancestors came from Sweden and England and lived in New England for a long time before 1800, in Ohio from 1830 to 1850. After 1850 they settled in Shelby County, Iowa.
Track their movements on these Family websites.
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LOST PHOTOGRAPHS |
Looking for the owner family
of this photo.
It was found at an antique
store in Burlington, Iowa.
We discovered records of a Schmeiser wedding in this county, which may or may
not be the same family.
If this photo belongs to your family, you are welcome to copy it onto photo quality
paper for your use.
What we know about the
family Schmeiser:
Copyrights,
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1996 - 2010
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