SEARCH ENGINES Search on Sherlock IAGENWEB BOARD SET    Iowa Board Set IAGenWeb Board Set Take care to credit sources. Submit Queries: Post queries one at a time for this county.    Submit Obituaries: One obituary at a time.   Submit Biographies: Post one bio at a time for this county.   Submit Assorted Documents Here: Submit wills, bible records, deeds, old letters, chapters from old books, clippings from old newspapers, etc. Submit tombstone photos  View photos or upload your own.   MANUAL QUERIES Manuel query system since 1996. While supporting our state boards, you may still post detailed queries here. These are updated every month. Make your query count: How to write a good query Visit the old query site SPECIAL SECTIONS President Lincoln Connection   ANCESTOR DIASPORA Were your ancestors from Ireland?  Ireland Genealogy Scandinavia Many Iowa emigrants came from Scandinavian countries and Germany. This cultural information was provided by visitors who lived in Portland OR, Chicago, IL and Burlington, IA.   MAILING LISTS To join our county or state mailing lists, click on the link below and subscribe Des Moines County Iowa State

ONSITE DATABASES Documents Old letters, gedcoms, tax, census, marriages 1834 to 1919, newspaper ads, and applications for citizenship, and more. Census Records  Census and substitute census back to territorial days. Tax before 1900 The county sheriff sold off property at tax sales. Names of owners are here. Biographies for the County Histories of Townships by Cay Merryman. Cemetery Transcriptions  Marriages 1834 to 1919 Certificates For Citizenship  Early settlers went to their nearest courthouse to sign documents of intent to become a citizen. Des Moines County Bios by Rootsweb Obituaries Some were provides by local newspapers and others were provided by visitors.  If you see a broken link, please let us know.   OLD PHOTOGRAPHS Photoproject portion for pioneer families is being reworked so will be back online when done. Pioneer Families Churches photo index Post Cards from Iowa RESEARCH HELP Volunteer Look-Ups DM Genealogy Society    FAMILY GROUP SHEETS Gedcoms and Group Sheets The following families emigrated  from Holland and Cuba. Karten Karten in Dutch is the word for  map. One map maker provided these maps of their homelands. The Roque family came from Leiden, Zuid Holland ca 1596 to New Amsterdam (New York). Roque, Spooner McLane Tell Inghram DM COUNTY TOWNSHIPS Cities in this Yellow Springs township include: Mediapolis. Notable locations in this township outside city limits: Churches: Sharon Baptist Sharon Presbyterian Cemeteries: Northfield Covenanter Welsh Chapel Sharon Reformed Presbyterian Round Prairie Linn Grove Hazel Grove Park in Yellow Springs township: Chautauqua Park. HISTORIES, Assorted   Your CC is donkelly since 1997

LOST PHOTOGRAPHS                   Looking for the owner 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: About Schmeiser   CIVIL WAR RECORDS ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR Iowa Pre-civil war Militias With sections for: Civil War Soldiers in Michigan. Iowa Soldiers in Dakotas. County casualties in WWI.   ASSORTED DOCUMENTS 1849 a wagon train from this county left Burlington bound for Oregon. Old family letters, Civil War era Old newspaper editorials Help for county coordinators Gravestone Registry 1930 What's NEW MAP SERVICES Iowa Counties click map  Burlington area IOWA NATIVES STORIES   Great Grandma's Indian stories Great grandmother Williamson Beebe told these Indian stories. Other Indian stories provided by history loving contributors. Short subjects about Indians Irishmen from County Kerry Ireland became Indian Chiefs in America Linkpendium  Communicable diseases may have killed some of your ancestors and their related families. Communical Diseases  Iowa State Records (click map)  MY IOWA FAMILIES My Iowa ancestors lived in New York in 1806 before starting a gradual movement west. They lived in Ohio a few years, then passed through Lee County, Iowa in 1850 to  finally settle in Shelby County Iowa. If this format to track your people works for you, feel free to adopt it. BEEBE From England 1650 to Connecticut, Ohio 1840 to Shelby Co. Iowa 1851, then to Missouri 1857, Texas1900, Oklahoma until 1930, then Arkansas. WILLIAMSON From New York 1806, Ohio 1831, Iowa 1849 where they lived out their lives at Galland's Grove in  Shelby County.

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