Wonder what the new column headings are for the 1940 census? Mary Eldridge spent time on discovering what they are. See them here

Over 200 new obituaries added to the Obituary Board for April. Thanks to S. Bell and K. Kittleson.

New Complete April, 2012 listing for Hudson Cemetery. Thank you Kermit Kittleson and Sandy Bell.

New printout out of Obituary Board Listing, Thank you Kermit Kittleson

113 records added to the Iowa Gravestone Project for St. Mary's of Gilbertville, Black Hawk Co. Many thanks to Gerry & Ruth

Our Obituary Board volunteers have been busy this month. There have been over 300 new obituaries added with pictures. Thanks to S. Bell, B. Hootman, K. Kittleson, D. Scott, J. Schuler

Kermit Kittleson recently redesigned the Blackhawk County Township map for this website.

I would like to thank the following Obituary Board volunteers for their contributions. We've had over 300 new obituaries, most with pictures. S.Bell, D.Badker, J.Conroy, K.Kittleson, D.Scott, C. Wilson

1945 Cedar Falls Business Listing (Mary Eldridge)

S. Bell, C. Diamond, C. Ellis, K.Kittleson and D. Scott have generously donated over 700 new obituaries to the Obituaries Board. We now have over 4,000 obituaries, many with pictures! Thanks to volunteers S. Bell, C. Diamond, B. Graves, K. Kittleson, D. Scott

There are close to 20,000 Black Hawk County gravestone photos in the iowagravestones.org database. Donated by our dedicated volunteers!!!! Look for new photos from Westview, Mt. Olivet, Spring Creek, Calvary, Garden of Memories, Fairview, Cedar Valley Memorial Gardens, St. Mary's of Gilbertville and others. You can view the headstones for Black Hawk County here.

Not to be forgotten is the tremendous amount of obituaries put on the Obituary database. S. Bell has been working overtime in contributing the newer obituaries to the county board. She has added more than 2,100 obituaries with pictures over the past few months. If you are in need of some new you might try looking it up here. This is a very complete listing of all the county's obituaries for the past few years.

Many thanks to Kermit Kittleson who recently put together an Obituary Listing comprised of the names from the Obituary Message Board. There are over 3,000 names in alphabetical order. Will keep this list updated quarterly. Visit the Black Hawk Obituary Message Board as it may have newer names not on the list yet.

Social Security Death Indexes for people born in 1876, 1877 and 1878 and died in Black Hawk County.

A newly updated listing for Hudson Cemetery has been added. Click here to view it. Many thanks to Sandy Bell and Kermit Kittleson. They also photographed several new Hudson Cemetery gravestones, which are located at http://iowagravestones.org

More than 200 obituaries with pictures has been added to the Obituary Board by S. Bell, K.Kittleson and D.Scott.

Mt. Olivet Cemetery has had over 200 gravestones photographed by Jim and Mary Jane.

Gerry and Ruth have added over 100 new gravestones to Westview and Spring Creek cemeteries.

New photo of civil war veteran Matthew Toole who served from Black Hawk Co., Iowa but is not buried in the county.

2010 In-depth survey of the Cemetery was done by Bonnie Siebel. She also photographed all the cemetery's stones and they are located on http://iowagravestones.org. Contact Bonnie at bonsiebel@gmail.com if you have any questions. A Cemetery Map in .pdf format is provided here. Also provided are Excel spreadsheets for the Rows, Lots, Graves and the Alphabetized Listing. Bonnie sent along several pictures of the Church and the Cemetery. View them here.

100+ obituaries most with pictures added to the Obituary Message Board by Sandy Bell, Kermit Kittleson, and Diane M. Scott.

Gerry and Ruth Wester have been busily adding various family gravestones to the database.

Washburn Cemetery has been photographed by Gerrie and Ruth Wester. The gravestones are located at http://iowagravestones.org.

Obituary Board entries have been standardized for easier searching

200+ new pictures and obituaries added to the Obituary Message Board. Thanks to Sandy Bell, Kermit Kittleson, Jerry Newlon and Diane M. Scott.

List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883 (1812-1883)

150+ new obituaries many with pictures have been added to the Obituaries Message Board on this website. Thanks to S. Bell, J. Conroy, C. Ellis, S. Ferrall, D. Scott, M. Skubinna.

The Church taking care of St. Mary's of Mount Carmel Cemetery generously donated their information to the Iowagravestones.org project. The first 600 photos are added to the database the remaining 500+ will be added over the coming months. Many thanks to Bonnie Siebel for all those pictures and information.

Trible Family Information: Additional Family History and Trible Home in Raymond. Submitted by Graydon Trible

Thomas Biscoe Doxey Civil War Diary transcribed
     1. Information on the diary and how it was interpreted
     2. Diary

60+ new obituaries added to the Obituaries Database, most with pictures of deceased. S. Bell

Black Hawk Index of "Iowa Press Assn. 1940 Who's Who in Iowa." Mona Sarratt Knight

150+ new obituaries added to the IAGenWeb Obituaries Database, most with pictures of deceased. by S. Bell

In progress is an updating of St. Francis Cemetery since the original WPA Survey of the 1930's. Encompasses corrections/additions to the original data. See pictures of newest gravestones located in the cemetery at the http://iowagravestones.org database.

Very small listing of Pearl Harbor Naval assignments from men from Black Hawk County, Iowa.

Most of St. Francis Catholic Church has been photographed by Geraldine Wester. Visit Iowagravestones.org Project.

Gravestone photos added from St. Mary's and St. Francis cemeteries to the Iowa Gravestones Project.

An additional 500+ photos have been added to their obituaries by S. Bell. There have been over 1,000 new obituaries added to the Obituary Database.

Many WWI obituaries have been added to the Obituary Database by Joe Conroy.

Thanks to Kermit Knittleson, the Hudson Cemetery has been updated Sep. 2010.

Complete listing for German Burial Grounds, Mary Eldridge

German Burial Grounds completely photographed for the Iowagravestones.org Project. Also by Mary Eldridge

February, 2010

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)

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.

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)

Brown, Gambrill, Ritz, Winebrenner families

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

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

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.

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)

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.

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

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

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

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:

                             Cemeteries

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:

                             Military

                             Census Transcriptions:

1852 Iowa State Census Index for Black Hawk County, IA

The new census information is linked below:

                             Census

A Compendium of Stories About Life in Black Hawk County, IA.  Contributed by Nancie Dobyns