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Iowa Birth, Marriage, & Death Records
Iowa Birth Indexes & Birth Records
- US – United States Births and Christenings, 1867-1931, index
- US – United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images
- Iowa – Iowa Births and Christenings, 1830-1950, index
- Iowa – Iowa, Birth Records, 1921-1942, index links to images
- Iowa – Iowa, Church Records, 1839-2004, index links to images
- Iowa – Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935, index
- Iowa – Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939, index & images
- Iowa – Iowa, Monroe County, Card Index of Births, Deaths & Marriages from Newspaper Clippings, 1898-2015, index
- Iowa – Iowa, birth records, 1948-1951
- Iowa – [Births, marriages and deaths in the Appler family]
- Iowa – Guide to public vital statistics in Iowa
- Iowa – Guide to public vital statistics records in Iowa
- Iowa – Iowa genealogical data
- Iowa – Iowa, birth and stillborn ledgers, 1880-1908
Iowa Marriage Indexes & Marriage Records
- US – United States Marriages, 1733-1990, index
- US – United States Western States Marriage Index, index
- US – United States, GenealogyBank Historic Newspaper Marriages, 1815-2011, index links to images
- Iowa – Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992, index
- Iowa – Iowa, Church and Civil Marriages, 1837-1989, index
- Iowa – Iowa, Church Records, 1839-2004, index links to images
- Iowa – Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934, index
- Iowa – Births, marriages and deaths in the Appler family
- Iowa – Guide to public vital statistics in Iowa
- Iowa – Guide to public vital statistics records in Iowa
- Iowa – Iowa genealogical data
- Iowa – Iowa marriage and cemetery records, 1945
- Iowa – Iowa marriages [Scott family line] : [1845-1861]
- Iowa – Iowa marriages, ca. 1844-1900
- Iowa – Iowa marriages, wills, and Rutledge family
- Iowa – Iowa, marriage records, 1938-1941
- Cherokee County – Cherokee County Iowa marriages : early marriages 1866-1880
- Monroe County – Iowa, Monroe County, Card Index of Births, Deaths & Marriages from Newspaper Clippings, 1898-2015, index
Iowa Divorce Indexes & Divorce Records
Iowa Death Indexes & Death Records
- US – United States Deaths and Burials, 1867-1961, index
- US – United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968, index & images
- US – United States Military Personnel who Died During the Vietnam War, 1956-2003
- US – United States Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North,1861-1865, index & images
- US – United States Social Security Death Index, index
- Iowa – Iowa Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990, index
- Iowa – Iowa, Church Records, 1839-2004, index links to images
- Iowa – Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992, index
- Iowa – Iowa Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880, index & images
- Iowa – Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951, index & images
- Iowa – Iowa, Monroe County, Card Index of Births, Deaths & Marriages from Newspaper Clippings, 1898-2015, index
- Iowa – [Births, marriages and deaths in the Appler family]
- Iowa – Guide to public vital statistics in Iowa
- Iowa – Guide to public vital statistics records in Iowa
- Iowa – Iowa genealogical data
- Iowa – Iowa mortality schedules, 1880
- Iowa – Iowa, birth and stillborn ledgers, 1880-1908
- Iowa – Iowa, death certificates, 1904-1951
- Iowa – Iowa, death ledgers, 1880-1883
- Iowa – Iowa, death records, 1904-1951
Cemeteries
- US – United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969, index links to images
- US – United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images
- US – United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
- US – Grand Army of the Republic records, Iowa posts : indexes to veterans ; post membership records
- US – Find A Grave Index, index links to images
- US – BillionGraves Index, index links to images
- US – Armed Forces grave registration records, 1776-1998
- Iowa – Iowa, Polk County, Cemetery Gravestone Records, index links to images
- Iowa – Iowa, Armed Forces Grave Registrations, ca. 1835-1998, index
- Iowa – Iowa, Adjutant General’s Office, Grave Registration Service, Cemetery Records, 1800-2000, index links to images
- Iowa – Nebraska / Iowa Grand Army of the Republic records, 1861-1948
- Iowa – Iowa, Grand Army of the Republic membership records, 1861-1865
- Iowa – Iowa, Armed Forces grave registrations, ca. 1835-1998
- Iowa – Iowa veterans buried out of state : Graves Registration Service, a division of the Adjutant General’s Department
- Iowa – Iowa State University Cemetery records
- Iowa – Iowa marriage and cemetery records, 1945
- Iowa – Iowa grave records and genealogical data, 1800-1900
- Iowa – Iowa grave records and genealogical data, 1800-1900
- Iowa – Iowa cemetery records
- Iowa – Iowa cemetery and grave records by Grave Registration Project of the W.P.A. and D.A.R.
- Iowa – Iowa cemetery and grave records by Grave Registration Project of the W.P.A. and D.A.R.
- Iowa – Iowa cemeteries
- Iowa – Civil War veterans burials from various states
- Iowa – Cemetery records of various Iowa counties
- Iowa – Armed Forces grave registration records, 1776-1998
- Kossuth County – Greenwood cemetery, Bancroft, Kossuth county, Iowa
Obituaries
- US – Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014, index links to images
- US – United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
- US – United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011, index links to images
- US – United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014, index & images
- Iowa – In memory of H. Lucille Crabb
- Iowa – In memory of Mabel Mildred Welch Crabb
- Iowa – Iowa obituaries, 1860-1982
- Iowa – Iowa obituaries, 1990-2013
- Iowa – Iowa records
- Iowa – Mortuary notices and obituaries as published in the Omaha World-Herald : 1986-1993
- Illinois – Obits published in Monmouth review-atlas, Monmouth, Il
- Cedar Rapids – Fraternal herald = Bratrský věstník
Wills & Probate
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Branch Records, 1872-1878
- US – United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955
- Iowa – Iowa, Tama County, Tax Records, 1865-1939, index links to images
- Iowa – Wills, 1655-1871, 1917
- Iowa – Iowa marriages, wills, and Rutledge family
- Fayette County – Iowa, Fayette County Probate Records, 1851-1928
- Polk County – Iowa, Polk County Probate Records, 1914-1924
- Poweshiek County – Iowa, Poweshiek County Probate, School, and Court Records, 1850-1954
- Poweshiek County – Iowa, Poweshiek County Land Records, 1855-1934
Iowa Residence Records
Census
- 1800 – United States Census, 1800, index & images
- 1810 – United States Census, 1810, index & images
- 1820 – United States Census, 1820, index & images
- 1830 – United States Census, 1830, index & images
- 1836 – The first census of the original counties of Dubuque and Demoine (Iowa) : taken in July 1836
- 1840 – Heads of families, 1840 census of Iowa
- 1840 – Iowa, 1840 federal census
- 1840 – The 1840 Iowa census
- 1840 – United States Census, 1840, index & images
- 1848-1970 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
- 1850 – Iowa 1850 census index
- 1850 – Iowa non-population census schedules, 1850-1880
- 1850 – Iowa, 1850 federal census
- 1850 – Seventh census of the United States, 1850, Iowa, roll 2, schedule 3, mortality
- 1850 – Seventh census of the United States, 1850, Iowa, roll 2, schedule 3, mortality
- 1850 – United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850, index & images
- 1850 – United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850, index & images
- 1850 – United States Census, 1850, index & images
- 1850-1880 – Iowa census record, [1850-1880]
- 1850-1880 – Iowa non-population census schedules, 1850-1880
- 1850-1880 – Iowa Non-Population Census Schedules, 1850-1880
- 1854 – 1854 census of various counties in Iowa
- 1856 – 1856 state census of Iowa
- 1859 – Census of Iowa. 1859
- 1860 – Eighth census of the United States, 1860, Iowa, roll 5, schedule 3, mortality
- 1860 – Eighth census of the United States, 1860, Iowa, roll 5, schedule 3, mortality
- 1860 – Iowa non-population census schedules, 1850-1880
- 1860 – Iowa, 1860 federal census
- 1860 – United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860, index & images
- 1860 – United States Census, 1860, index & images
- 1862 – Census returns of the different counties of the state of Iowa for the year 1862 : showing in detail the population, agricultural statistics, domestic and general manufactures, &c
- 1865 – Census returns of the different counties of the State of Iowa : as returned in the year 1865, showing in detail, the population, agricultural statistics, domestic and general manufactures, and other items of interest
- 1867 – The census of Iowa, as returned in the year 1867
- 1869 – The census of Iowa as returned in the Year 1869
- 1870 – Iowa non-population census schedules, 1850-1880
- 1870 – Iowa, 1870 federal census
- 1870 – Ninth census of the United States, 1870, Iowa
- 1870 – Ninth census of the United States, 1870, Iowa
- 1870 – United States Census, 1870, index & images
- 1875 – T. Andreas’ illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa, 1875
- 1875 – The census of Iowa as returned in the year 1875 : thirteenth state census
- 1880 – Census of Iowa for 1880 and the same compared with the findings of each of the other states : and also with all former enumerations of the territory now embraced within the limits of the state of Iowa, with other historical and statistical data
- 1880 – Census of Iowa for 1880, and the same compared with the findings of each of the other states : and also with all former enumerations of the territory now embraced within the limits of the state of Iowa, with other historical and statistical data
- 1880 – Iowa mortality schedules, 1880
- 1880 – Iowa non-population census schedules, 1850-1880
- 1880 – Iowa, 1880 federal census
- 1880 – Iowa, 1880 federal census
- 1880 – Tenth census of the United States, 1880, Iowa
- 1880 – United States Census, 1880, index & images
- 1880 –Tenth census of the United States, 1880, Iowa
- 1885 – Iowa state census, 1885
- 1885 – Iowa state census, 1885
- 1885 – Iowa State Census, 1885, index & images
- 1885 – State census, 1885
- 1885-1940 – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
- 1890 – United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images
- 1895 – Census of Iowa for the year 1895
- 1895 – Iowa state census, 1895
- 1895 – Iowa state census, 1895
- 1895 – Iowa State Census, 1895, index & images
- 1895 – State census, 1895
- 1900 – Iowa, 1900 federal census
- 1900 – Iowa, 1900 federal census
- 1900 – United States Census, 1900, index & images
- 1900-1940 – United States Enumeration District Maps for the Twelfth through the Sixteenth US Censuses, 1900-1940
- 1905 – Census register, 1905
- 1905 – Iowa state census, 1905
- 1905 – Iowa State Census, 1905, index & images
- 1905 – Iowa, state census, 1905
- 1908-1910 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
- 1910 – Iowa, 1910 federal census
- 1910 – United States Census, 1910, index & images
- 1915 – Iowa state census, 1915
- 1915 – Iowa state census, 1915
- 1915 – Iowa state census, 1915
- 1915 – Iowa State Census, 1915, index & images
- 1920 – Iowa, 1920 federal census
- 1920 – United States Census, 1920, index & images
- 1925 – 1925 Iowa state census index
- 1925 – Iowa state census, 1925
- 1925 – Iowa state census, 1925
- 1925 – Iowa State Census, 1925, index & images
- 1925 – Population census of Iowa, 1925
- 1930 – Iowa, 1930 federal census
- 1930 – United States Census, 1930, index & images
- 1940 – Iowa, 1940 population census
- 1940 – United States Census, 1940, index & images
- Iowa – Census of Iowa for the year …
- Iowa – On the cover, Iowa
Directories
- Atlas of Cherokee County, Iowa : containing maps of townships of the County, maps of State, United States, and world ; farmers directory
- Farmers of Iowa : a list of farmers of each county with postoffice
- Guide, gazetteer and directory of the Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad and branches : containing historical and statistical descriptions of all towns along the lines of the different railroads converging at Dubuque, a business directory of each town..
- Iowa state gazetteer
- The Medical and surgical directory of the state of Iowa
Emigration/Immigration/Migration
- United States Index to Alien Case Files, 1940-2003, index links to images
- United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index
- United States Border Crossings from Mexico to United States, 1903-1957, index
- Did emigrants from New England first settle Iowa?
- Old world Iowans : transplanted Europeans, loyal Americans in Iowa
- Early American highways: Oregon, California and Mormon Trails
- Letter from Ohio to Iowa – 1852
- The Mormon trails in Iowa
Land & Property
- Abstract of lands in Iowa counties which were entered or sold at the Land Offices
- Century farm applications
- Field notes and plats of state roads, vol. 1-4, 1844-1858
- Field notes from selected General Land Office township surveys
- Fifty year Iowa farm families
- Iowa and Minnesota boundary records, 1852
- Iowa grave records and genealogical data, 1800-1900
- Lands of half breeds, Sacs and Foxes, index and field books 1-3
- Letter from Ohio to Iowa – 1852
- Miscellaneous land records, 1839-1930
- Des Moines River lands, 1847-1904
- School land grants, 1849-1917
- Swamp land records, 1859-1921
- Tract books of Iowa land districts, 1838-1910
- Card files
Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers
- Atlas of the state of Iowa
- Illustrated historical atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875
- Iowa township maps
- Maps illustrative of the boundary history of Iowa
- Maps taken from county histories, etc. and filed separately at the Iowa State Historical Society
- Newhall’s outline map of Iowa : exhibiting all the new counties, chief towns, roads, etc.
- A Township map of the state of Iowa : compiled from the United States surveys, official information and personal reconnaissance, showing the streams, roads, towns, post offices, county seats, works of internal improvement, &c
- Township map of the state of Iowa, 1864
- Abandoned towns, villages and post offices of Iowa
- Maps illustrative of the boundary history of Iowa
- Abandoned towns, villages and post offices of Iowa
- Iowa as it is in 1855 : a gazetteer for its citizens, and a hand-book for immigrants, embracing a full description of the state of Iowa … Information for the immigrant respecting the selection, entry, and cultivation of prairie soil; a list of unentered lands in the state, &c.
- Iowa state gazetteer
Naturalization & Citizenship
- US – United States, Iowa Naturalization Records, 1859-1990, index links to images
- Bankruptcy docket, 1859-1869
- Declarations of intention and miscellaneous papers, 1849-1888
- Declarations of intention, 1886-1936; naturalizations, 1891-1936
- Declarations of intention, 1914-1936; petitions, 1915-1936
- General index to declaration of intention and petitions, 1909-1948; declaration of intention, 1917-1936; petitions, 1909-1936
- Lists of persons naturalized, 1853-1874
- Naturalization records, 1915-1936; some 1951 letters of amendment for earlier petitions
- Naturalization related records, 1930-1936
- Naturalization records, 1910-1936
- Petitions granted & continued, 1930-1935; Naturalizations, 1919-1926
- Illinois, Northern District naturalization index, 1840-1950
- Soundex index to naturalization petitions for U.S. District & Circuit Courts, Northern District of Illinois and Immigration and Naturalization Service District 9, 1840-1950
Passport
- United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, index & images
Pensions
- United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images
- United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
- United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
- Iowa, old age assistance records, 1934-1958
Taxation
- Iowa, Old Age Tax Assistance Records, 1934-1958, index
- Iowa – Iowa, Tama County, Tax Records, 1865-1939, index links to images
- Internal revenue assessment lists for Iowa, 1862-1866
- Iowa, old age assistance records, 1934-1958
Iowa Daily Life Records
Alumni, Schools, & Yearbooks
Bible Records
- Bible records from Iowa libraries and museums
- Bible records, 1947-1948
- Iowa records
- Miscellaneous Bible and cemetery records
Biography
- Biographical record and portrait album of Webster and Hamilton counties, Iowa : containing portraits of all the presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with accompanying biographies of each, portraits and biographies of the governors of the state, engravings of prominent citizens in Webster and Hamilton counties, with personal histories of many of the early settlers and leading families.
- Biographical record and portrait album of Webster and Hamilton counties, Iowa : containing portraits of all the presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with accompanying biographies of each, portraits and biographies of the governors of the state, engravings of prominent citizens in Webster and Hamilton counties, with personal histories of many of the early settlers and leading families.
- Biographies and portraits of the progressive men of Iowa : leaders in business, politics and the professions; together with an original and authentic history of the state
- Biographies and portraits of the progressive men of Iowa : leaders in business, politics and the professions; together with an original and authentic history of the state
- The blue book of Iowa women : a history of comtemporary women
- The blue book of Iowa women : a history of contemporary women
- Business men of Iowa : a biographical cross section of commercial, financial, industrial, professional, agricultural and public life within the state
- A century of Iowa Baptist history, 1834-1934
- Des Moines, Iowa pictorial and biographical deluxe supplement
- Die Deutschen von Iowa und deren Errungenschaften. Eine Geschichte des Staates, dessen deutscher Pioniere und ihrer Nachkommen
- Hawkeyes known and noted : (Iowa who’s who)
- History of Harrison County, Iowa : containing full-page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of Iowa, and of the presidents of the United States
- History of Iowa from the earliest times to the beginning of the twentieth century
- History of the Scandinavians and successful Scandinavians in the United States
- History of western Iowa, its settlement and growth : A comprehensive compilation of progressive events concerning the counties, cities, towns, and villages–biographical sketches of the pioneers and business men, with an authentic history of the state of Iowa
- Iowa colonels and regiments : being a history of Iowa regiments in the War of the Rebellion and containing a description of the battles in which they have fought
- The Iowa Press Association’s Who’s Who in Iowa : a biographical record of Iowa’s leaders in business, professional and public life
- Iowa, its history and its foremost citizens
- A Memorial and biographical record of Iowa
- Men of Iowa : a collection of portraits of representative men in business, professional and official life in the great state of Iowa. —
- A narrative history of the people of Iowa : with special treatment of their chief enterprises in education, religion, valor, industry, business, etc.
- Outstanding Iowa women
- Portrait and biographical album of Clinton County, Iowa : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of Iowa and of the Presidents of the United States, also containing a history of the county from its earliest settlement up to the present time
- Portrait and biographical album of Henry County, Iowa : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with protraits and biographies of all the governors of Iowa, and of the presidents of the United States
- Portrait and biographical album of Henry County, Iowa : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with protraits and biographies of all the governors of Iowa, and of the presidents of the United States
- Portrait and biographical album of Wapello County, Iowa : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of Iowa and the presidents of the United States.
- Portrait and biographical record of Dubuque, Jones and Clayton counties, Iowa : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States
- Recollections and sketches of notable lawyers and public men of early Iowa : belonging to the first and second generations, with anecdotes and incide nts illustrative of the times
- Recollections and sketches of notable lawyers and public men of early Iowa belonging to the first and second generations : with anecdotes and incidents illustrative of the times
- The story of Iowa: the progress of an American state
- T. Andreas’ illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa, 1875
- The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men
- The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men
- The valley and the shadow : comprising the experiences of a blind ex-editor, a literary biography, humorous autobiographical sketches, a chapter of Iowa journalism, and sketches of the west and western men
Business Records & Commerce
- Index to articles of incorporation, 1913-1978, articles of incorporation, 1898-1926
- Iowa non-population census schedules, 1850-1880
- The Mercantile Agency reference book and key : with a list of banks and bankers, state collection laws, maps, etc. : January 1904
Church
- Iowa, births and christenings, 1830-1950
- Iowa, church and civil marriages, 1837-1989
- Iowa, deaths and burials, 1850-1990
- Iowa, marriages, 1809-1992
- 99 churches of Jefferson County, Iowa
- Behind these years 1839 … 1939 : the story of the first one hundred years of the First Presbyterian Church of Davenport, Iowa.
- Builders of a commonwealth
- A century of Iowa Baptist history, 1834-1934
- Historical sketches of Iowa Baptists
- Historical sketches of Iowa Baptists
- History of the Catholic Church in Iowa
- History of the Catholic Church in Iowa : comprising information of the early days, origin and progress of the diocese of Dubuque, missions amongst the Indian tribes, together with a chapter of Rt. Rev. Dr. Smyth and Rt. Rev. Dr. Hennessy
- A history of the Church of the Brethren in southern Iowa
- History of the Church of the Brethren on the northern plains
- History of the Northwest Iowa Conference, 1872-1903
- History of the Upper Iowa Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1856-1906
- The Men of the past: our predecessors and associates in the ministry, within the present bounds of Iowa Presbytery
- The Mennonites in Iowa : marking the one hundredth anniversary of the coming of the Mennonites to Iowa
- A missionary synod with a mission : a memoir for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Evangelical Lutheran synod of Iowa and other states
- One hundred years of the Iowa Presbyterian Church
- The pilgrims of Iowa
- The Presbyterian Church in Iowa, 1837-1900 : history
- The Quakers of Iowa
- Religion in Iowa
- Seventy-five years of God’s grace, a history of the Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod in Iowa, 1879-1954
- Every name index, a history of the Church of the Brethren in southern Iowa
- Biographical data relative to Iowa Friends
- Church records (Iowa), 1927-1962
- Church records, 1831-1917
- Church records, 1841-1914
- Church records, 1853-1886
- Church records, 1863-1927
- Church records, 1868-1939
- Church records, 1936
- Collection
- Early church vital records
- Iowa churches : a file at the Iowa Wesleyan College in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
- Iowa Conference centennial, 1874-1974
- Ministerial biographies : a file in the Iowa Wesleyan College in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
- Minutes of the annual and general conferences, 1878-1897
- Minutes of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth annual meetings, 1874-1876
- Minutes, 1892-1909
- Pastor’s personal record book
- Record of members, 1882-1941; annual genealogical report, Form E, 1907-1951
- A record of the tercentenary reports within the bounds of the Synod of Ohio and adjacent states, 1863-1867
- The William Wade Hinshaw index to Iowa Quaker meeting records
Court Records
- Iowa, Fayette County Probate Records, 1851-1928
- Iowa, Polk County Probate Records, 1914-1924
- Iowa, Poweshiek County Land Records, 1855-1934
- Iowa, Poweshiek County Probate, School, and Court Records, 1850-1954
- United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955
- United States, Freedmen’s Branch Records, 1872-1878
- Iowa grave records and genealogical data, 1800-1900
Description & Travel
- The book that gave to Iowa its name : a reprint
- Galland’s Iowa emigrant : containing a map, and general descriptions of Iowa Territory
- Iowa as it is in 1855 : a gazetteer for its citizens, and a hand-book for immigrants, embracing a full description of the state of Iowa … Information for the immigrant respecting the selection, entry, and cultivation of prairie soil; a list of unentered lands in the state, &c.
- Notes on Wisconsin territory
- Iowa, the home for immigrants : Being a treatise on the resources of Iowa and giving useful infor mation with regard to the state for the benefit of immigrants and others
- Skandinavish koloni i Iowa
- Some historic markers in Iowa
Employees, Officials, & Occupations
- United States National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel Files, 1954-1970, index
- United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
- Recollections and sketches of notable lawyers and public men of early Iowa : belonging to the first and second generations, with anecdotes and incide nts illustrative of the times
- Iowa official register
Ethnic Records
African American Records
- United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images
- United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images
- United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images
- United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images
- United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images
- United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872
- United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images
- United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images
- United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images
Japanese American Records
- United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images
Native American Records
- United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images
- United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
- United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
- United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
- Annuity payroll of the Sac and Fox of the Mississippi in Iowa, Sept. 15, 1910
- Narrative of the march of Morgan’s Mounted Volunteers from Fort Atkinson, Iowa, to Long Prairie, Minnesota guarding removal of the Winnebago Indians
- Catlin’s notes of eight years’ travels and residence in Europe with his North American Indian collection : with anecdotes and incidents of the travels and adventures of three different parties of American Indians whom he introduced to the courts of England, France and Belgium
- Indians of the central plains
- The Iowa
Minorities
- United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
- The British in Iowa
- Chapters on Scandinavian immigration to Iowa
- Die Deutschen von Iowa und deren Errungenschaften. Eine Geschichte des Staates, dessen deutscher Pioniere und ihrer Nachkommen
- The Hollanders of Iowa
- The Jews of Iowa…
- Hanes Cymry Minnesota, Foreston a Lime Springs, Ia. : wedi ei gasglu gan amryw o’r hen sefydlwyr
- Iowa Wends
- The British in Iowa
- Iowa Wends
- Luxemburger Gazette (Dubuque, Iowa)
Genealogy
- Michael Keith Mulford compilation of descendants of the Revolutionary War soldiers and patriots buried in Iowa
- Ancestors of members of Iowa Mennonite Historical Society
- Behind these years 1839 … 1939 : the story of the first one hundred years of the First Presbyterian Church of Davenport, Iowa.
- Century farm applications
- Family record collection
- Fifty year Iowa farm families
- The first hundred years, 1865-1965
- Genealogical gleanings from Iowa
- Genealogical records, 1935
- Iowa families
- Iowa genealogical records
- Iowa grave records and genealogical data, 1800-1900
- Iowa miscellaneous family records
- Iowa pioneer families
- Iowa pioneers
- Lineage record of the members of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the state of Iowa, April, 1933
- Northwest Iowa pioneers
- Pioneer family records, 1953
- Surname collection
- Travelogue; Desdemonia Smith (Early pioneer to Treasure Valley)
- Michael Keith Mulford compilation of descendants of the Revolutionary War soldiers and patriots buried in Iowa
- Hawkeye heritage surname and topical index, v. 1:1966-v. 4:1969
- Harrison County happenings
- Hawkeye heritage
- Hawkeye heritage surname and topical index, v. 1:1966-v. 4:1969
- Iowa historian : the newsletter of the State Historical Society of Iowa
- Midwestern heritage
History
- The American Legion in Iowa, 1919-1929
- Biographies and portraits of the progressive men of Iowa : leaders in business, politics and the professions; together with an original and authentic history of the state
- Biographies and portraits of the progressive men of Iowa : leaders in business, politics and the professions; together with an original and authentic history of the state
- The book that gave to Iowa its name : a reprint
- Did emigrants from New England first settle Iowa?
- Discovering historic Iowa
- A glimpse of Iowa in 1846
- A hand book of Iowa, or, The discovery, settlement, geographical location, topography, natural resources, geology, climatoglogy
- High points of Iowa history
- Historical address on the early exploration and settlement of the Mississippi Valley : delivered in Davenport, Iowa, January 21st 1873
- History of Fremont County, Iowa : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc.; a biographical directory of many of its leading citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history of Iowa and the northwest, map of Fremont County …
- A history of Iowa Baptist schools
- History of Iowa County Iowa and its people
- History of Iowa from the earliest times to the beginning of the twentieth century
- The history of Keokuk County, Iowa : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of its citizens, war records of its volunteers in the late rebellion, history of the Northwest, history of Iowa, map of Keokuk County…constitution of the state of Iowa…&c.
- The history of Keokuk County, Iowa : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of its citizens, war records of its volunteers in the late rebellion, history of the Northwest, history of Iowa, map of Keokuk County…constitution of the state of Iowa…&c.
- History of Kossuth, Hancock and Winnebago counties, Iowa : together with sketches of their cities, villages and townships; history of Iowa
- History of Kossuth, Hancock and Winnebago counties, Iowa : together with sketches of their cities, villages and townships; history of Iowa
- History of Lone Tree
- A history of the people of Iowa
- History of township government in Iowa
- The history of Van Buren County, Iowa : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history of the northwest, history of Iowa, map of Van Buren County, constitution of the United States, miscellaneous matters, &c.
- The History of Wapello County, Iowa : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history of the northwest, history of Iowa, map of Wapello County, constitution of the United States, miscellaneous matters, &c.
- History of western Iowa : its settlement and growth; a comprehensive compilation of progressive events concerning the counties, cities, town and villages…with an authentic history of the state of Iowa
- History of western Iowa, its settlement and growth : A comprehensive compilation of progressive events concerning the counties, cities, towns, and villages–biographical sketches of the pioneers and business men, with an authentic history of the state of Iowa
- History of Winneshiek and Allamakee counties, Iowa
- Illustrated historical atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875
- An illustrated history of the state of Iowa : being a complete civil, political, and military history of the state, from its first emploration down to 1875
- Index to History of western Iowa
- The Iowa
- Iowa grave records and genealogical data, 1800-1900
- Iowa in times of war
- Iowa pioneer foundations
- Iowa records
- Iowa to Michigan to Vermont : two early letters
- Iowa, its history and its foremost citizens
- Ioway to Iowa : the genesis of a corn and Bible commonwealth
- Letters, 1846-1850, addressed to George Carlisle in Bethany, N. Y.
- A narrative history of the people of Iowa : with special treatment of their chief enterprises in education, religion, valor, industry, business, etc.
- Narrative of the march of Morgan’s Mounted Volunteers from Fort Atkinson, Iowa, to Long Prairie, Minnesota guarding removal of the Winnebago Indians
- Northwest Iowa pioneers
- Northwestern Iowa, its history and traditions, 1804-1926 : comprising the counties of Woodbury, Momona, Plymouth, Cherokee, O’Brien, Sioux, Lyon, Osceola, Sac, Burna Vista, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Calhoun, Ida, Crawford, Carroll, and Greene
- Old world Iowans : transplanted Europeans, loyal Americans in Iowa
- Outline of history of Iowa counties
- The pioneer history of Pocahontas County, Iowa : from the time of its earliest settlement to the present time…early history of Iowa
- Recollections and sketches of notable lawyers and public men of early Iowa belonging to the first and second generations : with anecdotes and incidents illustrative of the times
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood
- Story of Iowa
- The story of Iowa : the progress of an American state
- The Telegraph-Herald’s abridged history of the state of Iowa : with one hundred halftone views of interesting points on the Mississippi River
- Territorial papers of Iowa, 1838-1852
- Thomas Cox
- Who made Iowa, or, Who are the Pioneers and old settlers of Iowa : and their work in the making of the state
- William Peters Hepburn
- Index to History of western Iowa
- The Annals of Iowa : a historical quarterly
- The annals of Iowa volume one – (1863)
- The Iowa journal of history and politics
- Official register of the state of Iowa, 1925-26
Government & Legal
Government & Politics
- George Wallace Jones
- The governors of Iowa
- History of township government in Iowa
- Iowa official register
- Robert Lucas
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood
- Taxation in southern states, church and education
Libraries, Museums, & Archives
- Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in the United States, Iowa
- Guide to manuscript collections in Iowa
- Guide to manuscripts
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 02, Federal Courts, no. 14, Iowa
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 03, Department of the Treasury, no. 14, Iowa
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 04, Department of War, no. 14, Iowa
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 05, Department of Justice, no. 14, Iowa
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 07, Department of the Navy, no. 14, Iowa
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 08, Department of the Interior, no. 14, Iowa
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 09, Department of Agriculture, no. 14, Iowa
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 10, Department of Commerce, no. 14, Iowa
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 16, Farm Credit Administration, no. 14, Iowa
Medical
- Medicine in Iowa from its early settlement to 1876
- The Medical and surgical directory of the state of Iowa
Names & Surnames
- Hawkeye heritage surname and topical index, v. 1:1966-v. 4:1969
- Hawkeyes known and noted : (Iowa who’s who)
- Iowa – [Births, marriages and deaths in the Appler family]
- Iowa – Iowa marriages, wills, and Rutledge family
- Iowa – In memory of H. Lucille Crabb
- Iowa – In memory of Mabel Mildred Welch Crabb
- Iowa – Iowa marriages, wills, and Rutledge family
Newspapers
- Iowa newspapers established between 1839 and 1875: (as tablulated in the census returns of 1875)
- Jefferson County, Iowa surname index, 1750-1987
Postal & Shipping
Prisons & Prisoners
Public Records
Social Life & Customs
Societies
- The American Legion in Iowa, 1919-1929
- The constitution of the society of the sons of the revolution : and by-laws and register of the Iowa society
- Discovering historic Iowa
- History of Grand Lodge of Iowa, A.F. & A.M
- History, Department of Iowa, Woman’s relief corps, auxiliary to the Grand army of the republic, 1884-1934
- Journal of the forty-first annual convention of the department of Iowa Woman’s Relief Corps : auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, held at Marshalltown, Iowa, June 10-11-12, 1924
- Lineage record of the members of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the state of Iowa, April, 1933
- Records, 1914-1937
- Register of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the state of Iowa
- Report of the organization and reunions, 1884-1887
- Proceedings of the Historical Society of Linn County, Iowa, Cedar Rapids
Iowa Military Records
- Iowa – Iowa, Records of Persons Subject to Military Duty, 1862-1910, index links to images
- Iowa – Iowa, Old Age Tax Assistance Records, 1934-1958, index
- United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
- United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
- United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, index & images
- United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, index & images
- United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images
- Iowa, Armed Forces Grave Registrations, ca. 1835-1998, index
- United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images
- Iowa, Armed Forces grave registrations, ca. 1835-1998
- Iowa, records of persons subject to military duty, 1862-1910
- Armed Forces grave registration records, 1776-1998
- Company B, 7th Iowa volunteer infantry: [Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, and Mitchell Counties]
- Hand book for Iowa Soldier’s and Sailors’ Monument
- Iowa veterans buried out of state : Graves Registration Service, a division of the Adjutant General’s Department
- List of ex-soldiers, sailors and marines, living in Iowa
- Muster roll, 1862
- Persons subject to military duty, ca. 1862-1910
- Roster of the Iowa National Guard, April 1, 1908
- Biennial report of the adjutant general of Iowa for the biennial period ended November 30, 1916
- United States Revolutionary War, Virginia Pension Application Files, 1830-1875
- Iowa, Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1861-1949
- Iowa, Old Age Tax Assistance Records, 1934-1958
- Iowa, Records of Persons Subject to Military Duty, 1862-1910
Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
- United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images
- United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, index & images
- United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, index & images
- Michael Keith Mulford compilation of descendants of the Revolutionary War soldiers and patriots buried in Iowa
- Index to the 1840 census of Delaware County, Iowa; 1841 Revolutionary War pensioners in Iowa; index to 1820 census of Crawford County, Michigan Territory; index to 1820 census of Oakland County, Michigan Territory; index to 1830 census of B
- Register of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the state of Iowa
Mexican-American War, 1846-1848
- United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848, index & images
- United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, index & images
- Compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Mexican War in Mormon organizations
- Roster and record of Iowa soldiers in the War of the Rebellion: together with historical sketches of volunteer organizations, 1861-1866
US Civil War
- United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images
- United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865, index links to images
- United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865, index
- United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index links to images
- United States Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865
- United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865
- United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
- United States Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North,1861-1865, index & images
- A History of the First Regiment Iowa Cavalry veteran volunteers : from its organization in 1861 to its muster out of the United States service in 1866. Also, a complete roster of the regiment
- A history of the Sixth Iowa Infantry
- A succinct history of the 28th Iowa Volunteer Infantry : from date of muster into service, October 10th, 1862 at Iowa City, Iowa to its final muster out, August 13th, 1865 at Davenport, Iowa
- Account book, 1861- ca. 1874
- Address to the surviving members of the Twenty-First Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, on the occasion of their fourth reunion at Strawberry Point, Iowa, September 3d, 1889
- American patriotism, or, memoirs of “common men”
- Campaigns and battles of the Twelfth Regiment, Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry : from organization, September 1861, to muster out, January 20, 1866
- Casualties of the 39th Iowa infantry (Civil War)
- Civil War records of Company “C”, 32nd Infantry, Iowa
- Company E, 2nd Iowa Infantry Regiment
- Dedication of monuments erected by the state of Iowa : commemorating the death, suffering and valor of her soldiers on the battlefields of Vick[s]burg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Shiloh and in the Confederate prison at Andersonville : November twelfth to twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six
- Downing’s Civil War diary
- Edmond Dean Jones of Springville, Iowa : life and times, including Civil War letters
- First and second re-unions of the Thirty-Fifth Iowa Infantry held at Muscatine, Iowa : first re-union, September 29, 1886, second re-union, October 2 and 3, 1889
- Grand Army of the Republic records, Iowa posts : indexes to veterans ; post membership records
- Hand book for Iowa Soldier’s and Sailors’ Monument
- History of the fifteenth regiment, Iowa veteran volunteer infantry : from October 1861 to August 1865, when disbanded at end of the war
- History of the Nineteenth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry
- History of the Thirtieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers : giving a complete record of the movements of the regiment from its organization, until mustered out
- History of the Twenty-Second Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry : from the date of enlistment to muster out of the service of the United States, giving all the important events in its campaigns in Missouri, in the siege and capture of Vicksburg, in the Texas expedition and in the Shenandoah Valley
- Incidents connected with the history of the Thirty-Second Iowa Infantry
- Index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Iowa
- Iowa colonels and regiments : being a history of Iowa regiments in the War of the Rebellion and containing a description of the battles in which they have fought
- Iowa colonels and regiments : being a history of Iowa regiments in the War of the Rebellion and containing a description of the battles in which they have fought
- Iowa in war times
- Iowa victims of Andersonville
- Iowa, Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1861-1949, index & images
- Military records, 1861-1865
- Muster rolls, 1864
- Nebraska / Iowa Grand Army of the Republic records, 1861-1948
- Official army list of the volunteers of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado
- Proceedings of Crocker’s Iowa Brigade
- Proceedings of the reunion and camp-fire of the Iowa Battery Association, Council Bluffs, Iowa, September 21st and 22nd, 1898 : including some other matters of interest to “the old boys”
- Revised roster, Company D, 12th Regiment, Iowa Infantry Volunteers
- Roster and record of Iowa soldiers in the War of the Rebellion : together with historical sketches of volunteer organizations, 1861-1866
- Roster of 6th Iowa Vol. Inft., arranged by companies : names and p.o. address of all surviving comrades so far as known, done at Osceola, Iowa, Aug., A.D. 1888
- Roster of Co. I, 6th infantry, war of the rebellion: recruited and organized at Burlington, Iowa, springtime of 1861
- Roster of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, 1861-1865
- Sergeant Rose and the 15th Iowa in the War of the Rebellion
- Sketches of two companies from Appanoose County, Iowa being 1, Third Reg. Iowa Cavalry, and Co. D, Sixth Reg. Iowa Infantry, also the live business men Centerville, Iowa
- Statistical roster of the Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry
- The capture and destruction of Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865 : personal experiences and recollections of Major H. C. McArthur, Fifteenth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, a.d.c. to General W.W. Belknap, commanding Crocker’s Iowa Brigade, Seventeenth Army Corps
- The Lyon campaign in Missouri : being a history of the first Iowa infantry and of the causes which led up to its organization, and how it earned the thanks of Congress, which it got. Together with a birdseye view of the conditions in Iowa preceding the great Civil War of 1861
- The Second Iowa Infantry at Fort Donelson, February 15, 1862 : together with an outline history of the regiment from its organization at Keokuk, Iowa, May 27, 1861 to final discharge at Davenport, Iowa, July 20, 1865
- The Thirty-Fourth Iowa Regiment : brief history
- Third reunion, Iowa Brigade : 2d, 7th, 8th, 12th and 14th infantry : held at Newton, Iowa, Wednesday and Thursday, August 21 and 22, 1895
- Three years among the Indians in Dakota
- United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians, 1861-1866
- United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians, 1861-1866
Philippine Insurrection, 1899-1901
World War I
- United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index links to images
- United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index & images
- Iowa, Black Hawk County, Waterloo, World War I Pledge Cards, 1917-1918, index links to images
- Iowa, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918
- The story of the 168th infantry
- The price of our heritage : in memory of the heroic dead of the 168 Infantry
World War II
- United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, index
- United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, index & images
- Iowa, military records: World War II 4th draft registration cards, 1942
- Iowa, World War II draft registration cards for young men, 1940-1947
- World War II honor list of dead and missing: state of Iowa
Vietnam War
Veterans
- United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index links to images
- United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
- United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
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