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QUERY BOARDS

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Des Moines County Board (Rootsweb)

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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

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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

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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