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:
                             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