Iowa Minority Records online include African American records, Native American Records, Swedish American Records, and more. This is a preliminary list.
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Iowa Minority Records Online at the federal level
US – African American – Discover Freedmen, at FS (searches FS Freedmen’s Bureau records), at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images (census, labor, immigration, slavery, birth, death, military, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – US Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867, at Anc$
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, at FS
US – African American – Great slave narratives, IA
US – African American – African American genealogy: a bibliography and guide to sources, at FS
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol I, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol II, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol III, IA
US – African American – African, Americans and the Gettysburg campaign, IA
US – African American – Before the Mayflower : a history of the Negro in America, 1619, 1964, IA
US – African American – Black courage 1775, 1783: Documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution, IA
US – African American – Black genesis : a resource book for African, American genealogy, IA
US – African American – Black Indian genealogy research, IA
US – African American – Black slavery emancipation research in the Northern States, FS
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops : 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry : pamphlet describing M1817, IA
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, infantry organizations, 14th through 19th, IA
US – African American – Finding a place called home : a guide to African, American genealogy and historical identity, IA
US – African American – Forgotten patriots : African American and American Indian patriots of the Revolutionary War : a guide to service, sources, and studies, DAR
US – African American – Free Negro owners of slaves in the United States in 1830, together with Absentee ownership of slaves in the United States in 1830, GB
US – African American – Generations past : a selected list of sources for Afro, American genealogical research, at FS
US – African American – History of the American negro and his institutions, at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 1. Cases from the courts of England, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 2. Cases from the courts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 3. Cases from the courts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 4. Cases from the Courts of New England, the Middle States, and the District of Columbia), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 5. Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica), at FS
US – African American – List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records, at FS
US – African American – List of free black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790, at FS
US – African American – Memorials of Lieut. George H. Walcott, late of the 30th U.S. Colored Troops, HT
US – African American – Missing pages in American history : revealing the services of Negroes in the early wars in the United States of America, 1641, 1815, GB
US – African American – Negro population in the United States, 1790, 1915, HT
US – African American – Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities, at FS
US – African American – Patriots of color: a peculiar beauty and merit : African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill, HT
US – African American – Progress of a race, or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro : from the bondage of slavery, ignorance, and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust, at FS
US – African American – Recollections of a colored troop, LOC
US – African American – Record of the services of the seventh regiment U.S. colored troups, at FS
US – African American – Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, late 1st S.C. Volunteers, GB
US – African American – Report to the Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 1864 : the refugees from slavery in Canada West, HT
US – African American – Services of colored Americans in the wars of 1776 and 1812, at FS
US – African American – Slavery in the courtroom: an annotated bibliography of American cases, HT
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, GB
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans, GB
US – African American – The Forty, Third Regiment United States Colored Troops, Gutenberg
US – African American – The National cyclopedia of the colored race, GB
US – African American – The negro as a soldier in the war of the rebellion, LOC
US – African American – The Negro soldier : a select compilation, at FS
US – African American – The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. narrating the hardships hair, breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author, HathiTrust
US – African American – The Underground railroad from slavery to freedom, Gutenberg
US – African American – Two colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces, at FS
US – African American – Who’s who in colored America : an illustrated biographical directory of nolable living persons of African descent in the United States, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images, at FS
US – Minorities – United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images, at FS
Iowa Minority Records Online at the state level
Iowa – African American – Iowa African American Obits, at AG
Iowa – African American – African Americans in Iowa Digital Library Collections, IDL
Iowa – African American – African American collections at IDHR, at IDHR
Iowa – African American – Railroads in the African American Experience, at AAR
Iowa – Minorities – The British in Iowa, at FS
Iowa – Minorities – Chapters on Scandinavian immigration to Iowa, at FS
Iowa – Minorities – Die Deutschen von Iowa und deren Errungenschaften. Eine Geschichte des Staates, dessen deutscher Pioniere und ihrer Nachkommen, at FS
Iowa – Minorities – The Hollanders of Iowa, at FS
Iowa – Minorities – The Jews of Iowa…, at FS
Iowa – Minorities – Hanes Cymry Minnesota, Foreston a Lime Springs, Ia. : wedi ei gasglu gan amryw o’r hen sefydlwyr, at FS
Iowa – Minorities – Iowa Wends, at FS
Iowa – Minorities – The British in Iowa, at FS
Iowa – Minorities – Iowa Wends, at FS
Iowa – Minorities – Luxemburger Gazette (Dubuque, Iowa), at FS
Iowa – Native American – Annuity payroll of the Sac and Fox of the Mississippi in Iowa, Sept. 15, 1910, at FS
Iowa – Native American – Narrative of the march of Morgan’s Mounted Volunteers from Fort Atkinson, Iowa, to Long Prairie, Minnesota guarding removal of the Winnebago Indians, at FS
Iowa – Native American – 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, at FS
Iowa – Native American – Indians of the central plains, at FS
Iowa – Native American – The Iowa, at FS
Iowa – Swedish Americans – Name Indexes to Swedish Americans, at AC (CA, IL, IA, TX, WA), at FS
Iowa – Swedish Americans – Swedish Settlements in Iowa, at RW
Iowa – Swedish Americans – The Swedes in Sioux City, at HL
Iowa Minority Records Online at the county level
Linn County – Native Races – Marion Resolution, 1852, at FS
Tama County – Native Races – A Collection of Meskwaki Manuscript, Prepared by Cha-kä-ta-ko-si, Secretary of the Meskwaki Tribe, Resident in Tama County, Iowa, at FS
Tama County – Native Races – Interview in Ta-ta-pa-sha’s Wikiup August 24, 1905, at FS
Tama County – Native Races – Meskwaki Alphabet, at FS
Tama County – Native Races – Meskwaki History; First Manuscript, at FS
Tama County – Native Races – Meskwakia and the Meskwaki People, at FS
Tama County – Native Races – Musquakie Indians, at FS
Tama County – Native Races – Notes on Me-Skwa-ki History, at FS
Tama County – Native Races – Treaty of 1815, at FS
Tama County – Native Races – Treaty of 1837 (with Confederated Tribes of Sac and Fox), at FS
Tama County – Native Races – Two Summers Among the Musquakies Relating to the Early History of the Sac and Fox Tribe : Incidents of Their Noted Chiefs, Location of the Foxes or Musquakies in Iowa with a Full Account of Their Traditions, Rites and Ceremonies and the Personal Experience of the Writer for Two and a Half Years Among Them, at FS
Winneshiek County – Native Races – Indian History of Winneshiek County, at FS
Iowa Minority Records Online at the city level
Burlington – Minorities – Evolution of Church Music in St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1863-1963, at FS
Cedar Rapids – Minorities – Periodicals – Fraternal Herald = Bratrský Věstník, at FS
Sioux City – Minorities – Svenskarna I Sioux City : Några Blad Ur Deras Historia, at FS
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