WHAT'S NEW!

 

September, 2009

Completed Cedar Valley Memorial Gardens, Gethsemane Section (H. Hurley)

Completed Cedar Valley Memorial Gardens, Good Shepherd Section (H. Hurley)

Mt. Vernon Cemetery has a up-to-date listing as well as being totally photographed for the Iowa Gravestones Project. (M. Eldridge)

150+ new photographs of Fairview-Waterloo Cemetery (M. Eldridge)

 

August, 2009

Completed, Cedar Valley Memorial Gardens, Last Supper Section (H. Hurley)

Added Pioneers DULL, LICHTY & WEIGLE to the Pioneer Pages (M. Mestad)

100 new biographies added to Obituary (OBITS) Board (M. Mestad)

Over 100 new names added to the Orange Twp. Cemetery Listing
(M. Mestad)

3 new photos for the Lost and Found Feature

Mrs. George Hanna's Pioneer History and Around Town Pictures (.pdf)

VIRDEN, FANCHER and MULLAN Pioneer Families: over 30 obituaries, biographies, marriages and other information (Mary Mys)

1850 in-depth Black Hawk County US Census (Mary Mys)

First Postmaster, George Mullan, and the History of Presidential Appointments as Postmasters (Mary Mys)

300+ new gravestone pictures added to the Mt. Vernon Cemetery, in Mt. Vernon Township (Iowa Gravestone Picture Project (GPP) (M. Eldridge)

100+ new gravestone pictures added to the Fairview-Waterloo Cemetery in Waterloo (the GPP) (M. Eldridge)

Blessing Cemetery, Charts 1 and 1-1 and Charts 2 and 2-1 are available in .jpg format. They are larger files (1.4mb each) and will take some extra time to download.

 

July, 2009

Blessing Cemetery, Revised (.html format) (submitted by Von Mings Stachon)
Chart 1 and Chart 2 are Excel format only

VIRDEN and FANCHER Pioneer Families: What happened to them?
(submitted by Mary Mys)

Historical Scraps: The First of a Good Many Things in Town and County
(Submitted by Mary Mys)

A few deaths in Waterloo, Iowa (Submitted by Mary Mys)

Black Hawk County Court "Firsts" (Submitted by Mary Mys)

 

May, 2009 Wilhelm (William) and Elfriede Beckmann Meissner

 

March, 2009 1885 Iowa State census of counties where people born in Blackhawk County, IA but live in a different county in 1885. Black Hawk was enumerated in 1895.
ADAIR - CRAWFORD * DICKENSON - OSCEOLA * PAGE - TAYLOR
UNION - WRIGHT

 

December, 2008

Brown, Gambrill, Ritz, Winebrenner families

Up-to-date Listing for Blessing Cemetery and WPA Names

 

November, 2008
Just Added: Lost and Found Photos for Black Hawk Co. Send in your unidentified photos to see if someone knows who they are.

 

September, 2008

Hudson Cemetery Completed, September 2008 by Kermit Kittleson

Arza, Burgess, Dibble Families Update from Sandy Burgess McClay

1893 LaPorte City Newspaper, definition of Family Names

 

July, 2008
Trible Family; History of Land and a House submitted by Graydon Trible

Thomas Zuraff Family submitted by Bruce Fritsch

Fairview Cemetery, Waterloo, check out the 1,000+ headstones added to the Iowa Gravestone Project (http://iowagravestones.org)

Oliver Alexander Family; Henry W. Bucher Family and Home; Herbert McIntosh Family all of Dunkerton, Iowa

 

January, 2008

 

July, 2007

Hundreds of new names added to Hillside - Cedar Falls, WestView - Cedar Falls and Fairview-Waterloo cemeteries listings. Thanks to Mary Eldridge and Patricia Bergmeier.

2,000+ new Gravestone Photos entered into the GPP
Hudson Cemetery is being photographed for the first time by Kermit Kittleson
Fairview and Hillside are being photographed by Mary Eldridge
St. Mary of Mount Carmel is also being photographed.

See Cemetery Page for updates or click here to go to cemetery pages.

 

May, 2007

1895 Iowa Census for Black Hawk Township 1,2,3,4

New Additions to the following cemeteries:
Fairview Cemetery, Waterloo (new names have been added to the existing pages);

Greenwood Cemetery, Cedar Falls (new names will be on separate pages)

 

January, 2007 1895 Iowa Census for City of Cedar Falls (Cedar Falls City)
Pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

The pages are designed to be interconnected when you are in a page. Each page offers a previous (except first and last pages), a next, and a home link. This is a lot of data and this is the best way to display it. It is in index form and unalphabetized so it shows neighbors ennumerated together.

September, 2006
1895 Iowa State Census for the following townships:
Barclay, Parts 1, 2, 3, 4
Bennington, Parts 1, 2, 3

Social Security Death Index for those born in 1876-1877, and 1878 and died in Black Hawk County, Iowa
   
April, 2006
   
March, 2006

1895 Iowa State Census for the following townships:
Big Creek, Parts 1,2,3
Cedar, Parts 1,2,3
Eagle, Parts 1,2,3
Lester, Parts 1,2,3,4,5
Lincoln, Parts 1,2,3
Orange, Parts 1,2
Poyner, Parts 1,2,3,4,5

Social Security Death Index, 1865-1875 for BHCo.

Brief History of Black Hawk County, Iowa

   
SEPTEMBER, 2005

1860 U.S. Census for Black Hawk County (index format)

Take a tour of Waterloo through pictures and postcards More cities/towns to come.

   
March, 2005

We have added the following cemetery transcriptions.  They are not complete but contain either WPA information or other sources.  These will be updated whenever there is more to add to the database. 

Benson          Blessing         Calvary         Elmwood

Fairview-Waterloo(WL)         Fairview-Cedar Falls(CF)

Fairview-Dunkerton(DK)        Finchford       Gresham

Highland          Hudson        Lincoln          Old Barclay

Orange Twp     St. Joseph’s      St. Mary’s of Mt. Carmel

St. Paul’s UCC  Washburn    Waterloo    Westview                   Zion Lutheran

Garden of Memories is being transcribed

“Read all about it” has additional information about the cemetery.  Just click on it.

The cemeteries are linked below:
                             http://www.rootsweb.com/~iablackh/cemetery1r.htm

Military Transcriptions:  Mostly related to Civil War Veterans and those from the War of 1812.

1883 Iowa List of Pensioners for BH County, IA (1812-1883)

1885 Special Iowa Census of Soldiers, Sailors & Marines of BH County, IA

                        The military information is linked below:

                             http://www.rootsweb.com/~iablackh/milires.html

                             Census Transcriptions:

1852 Iowa State Census Index for Black Hawk County, IA

The new census information is linked below:

                             http://www.rootsweb.com/~iablackh/bhccensus.html

A Compendium of Stories About Life in Black Hawk County, IA.  Contributed by Nancie Dobyns
                             http://www.rootsweb.com/~iablackh/bhcnancie.htm