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SEARCH ENGINES Search on Sherlock   QUERY BOARDS Iowa GenWeb Board Set 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 Old query system. (1996-2009) While supporting our state boards, you may  post highly detailed queries here.  Visit the old query site SPECIAL SECTIONS   HISTORY This section will include histories at state, county, township and town level. Territorial History Sectional Histories, including townships, towns and ghost towns. Townships transcribed by Cay Merryman. Township histories by donkelly  ANCESTOR DIASPORA Were your ancestors from Ireland?  Ireland Genealogy Projects MAILING LISTS To join our county or state mailing lists, click on the link below and subscribe Des Moines County  admin donkelly, click to subscribe

ON SITE DATABASES Documents files include old letters, family groupsheets, tax records, census, marriages between 1834 and 1919, newspaper editorials, applications for citizenship, and more. This documents collection is under constant updating as new records are transcribed. Census records extend back to territorial days. General History Indexes Histories of geographical areas, natives of Iowa and this county leaders. Communicable Diseases  Diseases may have killed many of your ancestors or  related families Tax before 1900 Biographies for the County Several categories here including bios for people and towns/areas. Cemetery Transcriptions  Eventually we will transcribe every cemetery. Your help is welcome. Marriages 1834 to 1919 Add your marriage records to this section. Certificates Of Intent  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 Obituaries Some obits were provided by local newspapers and others were provided by visitors.  Des Moines County Genealogy Society Burlingtoon, IA   OLD PHOTOGRAPHS 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.  General Photo set Lost family Photos Churches sub-set Schools sub-set Post Cards sub-set RESEARCH HELP Volunteer Look-Ups If you own resources for this county, please become a lookup volunteer. Burlington Public Library Family Group Sheets The following families emigrated  from Holland and Cuba.   Your County Coordinator since 1997 is donkelly How and when I got into genealogy.  The gate donkelly copyright 1996-2012 All rights reserved.

STATE PROJECTS Iowa History Iowa Family Groupsheets Iowa Message Boards Iowa Civil War ) Iowa Great War ) Find in history Iowa Graves Old Press Iowa Census Iowa Orphain Trains Iowa WPA Graves Registry 1930 WPA cemetery registration did not include cemeteries here in this county.   CIVIL WAR COUNTY RECORDS ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR Iowa Pre-civil war Militias With sections for: Iowans in Michigan. Iowans in the Dakotas. WWI including casualties from Des Moines County, IA County casualties in WWI. ASSORTED DOCUMENTS 1849 wagon train This wagon train left to the west from Burlington, Iowa. Family letters, Civil War era Old newspaper editorials   MAP SERVICES Iowa Counties click map  Burlington area IOWA NATIVES STORIES   Stories about local Indians Great grandmother Williamson Beebe told these Indian stories. Other Indian stories provided by history loving contributors. Irishmen were Indian Chiefs MY IOWA FAMILIES  Williamson and Beebe of Shelby County