Historical What's New
2020
2 Oct 2020 Completed rewriting and adding to new look of website
25 Sept 2020 Transcribed multiple chapters of History of Boone County 1880 added to History page.
23 Sept 2020 Completed the Madrid Bios for the Biographies page through L.
8 Sept 2020 Discovered 1896 Patron's directory linked to wrong file - fixed
2 Sept 2020 New updated website started
1 Sept 2020 Added transcriptions of birth & delayed birth certificates to Birth Records Page
31 Aug 2020 transcribed Boone Co. Births 1882 and added to Birth Records Page
30 Aug 2020 transcribed Iowa Patents for Boone Co from 1866 to 2020
26 Feb 2020 Transcribed more Madrid Bios for the Biographies page. Now complete through K.
25 Feb 2020 Added new transcript of Mitchell Cemeterywith photos, link to Cemeteries Listing
2016 - 2019
20 Sept 2019 Transcribed more Madrid Bios for the Biographies page.
13 Sept 2019 Updated Updated Postcards page - No transcriptions yet
24 July 2019 Transcribed more Madrid Bios for the Biographies page. Through G complete
16 June 2019 Updated Postcards page
5 June 2019 Added to the Poor Farm wonderful handwritten notes by Nurse Arlene Jacoby who work at the poor farm.
25 Mar 2019 Added Postcards to the History page.
20 Feb 2019 Added Century Farms to History page.
1 Oct 2018 Added the 1906 GAR State Encampment to the Military page.
7 Sept 2018 7 Sept 2018 Completed the Bios from "The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men". Iowa Volume. American Biographical Publishing Company. 1878.
5 Sept 2018 - Added 4 year books from Boone High school to Schools page.
5 Sept 2018 - Added new biographies from The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
4 Oct, 2017 - Corrected link to Vital Records being held at the county Recorders office (menu on left)
Completed transcribing bios with last names starting with E - G (misc. children also added to index) from the "Madrid Centennial" 1883 - 1983 4 Oct, 2017
Added 1904-1906 Births to the Vital Records page, thank you Nettie Mae
Added image and information for Hector Grant to Military page March 27, 2017
Completed transcribing bios with last names starting with A - D from the "Madrid Centennial" 1883 - 1983 15 Feb 2017
Began adding transcribed bios from the Madrid Centennial 1883 - 1983 2 Feb 2017
Added 1850 Federal Census for Fort Clark Garrison to the Military in Boone Co. page. 27 Sept, 2016
Added link to Boone County GIS property search to Maps page. 19 Sept 2016
Added Patron's Directory transcription link to Maps page. 19 Sept 2016
2006 - 2015
Funeral Homes added to Vitals Page (July 2015)
New Coordinator Jan Bony took over (July 2015)
Biographies Added to Bios Board from Madrid History Book 1883-1983:
Alfred Anderson Family (April 2014)
Peter Augus Alsin (April 2014)
Glenn E and Jean Allen (April 2014)
Bill and Judy Allen Family (April 2014)
John H Grigsby (Jan 2014)
Linwood Park Cemetery
Linwood Cemetery, Daggett to J. Day (April 2014)
Linwood Cemetery, Chickering to Amy Coleman (March 2014)
Linwood Cemetery, Boak to Frances Brewster (February 2014)
Linwood Cemetery, E L Cadd to Walter S Chatfield (Sept 2013)
Linwood Cemetery, William L Bell to William Blyth (July 2013)
Linwood Cemetery Lottie Anderson to Thomas E Aylsworth ( June 2013)
Linwood Cemetery Babbit to Wayne M Bell (April 2013)
Linwood Cemetery Aanonson to Linda E Anderson (March 2013)
Dyer Family Tree Luke Dyer to his first child Zipporah Dyer whom married Reuben Anderson and their children, Luke, William, Delitha, Isaac, Leah, Robert and Barbara (reseached and written by Tina Keister for Eileen Bouton in Mt Hope, Kansas) (Added March 2013)
1895 Yell Township Census Index (October 2012)
1895 Garden Township Census Index (October 2012)
1895 Garden Township Census Complete (October 2012)
Linwood Cemetary A-Z - Courthouse Records Only (April 2012)
Boxholm and Pilot Mound Pioneer Biographies (April 2012)
Madrid Biographies 1883 - 1983 (April 2012)
Ridgeport Baseball Team Photo circa 1930 (July 2011)
Newspaper Articles from Pioneer Days (July 2011)
Treloar Family History Website [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~treloar/9thjosephstory.htm] (July 2011)
Fairview Cemetery Burials (Douglas Township) (July 2011)
Fairview Cemetery Burials (Union Township) (July 2011)
Elk Rapids Cemetery and History (July 2011)
Death Records (1922-1933) (10/11/2010)
Iowa Gravestones Photos (10/7/2010)
St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery Burials (10/3/2010)
Obituary Index (9/16/2010)
Sturtz Family History (9/15/2010)
WPA Graves Survey (9/15/2010)
St. John's Catholic Cemetery Burials (8/7/2010)
Fairview Cemetery Burials (8/7/2010)
1914 Biography Index (8/4/2010)
Renner Cemetery Burials (8/3/2010)
Squire Boone Cemetery Burials (7/17/2010)
Poor Farm Cemetery Burials (7/17/2010)
Mineral Ridge Cemetery Burials (7/17/2010)
Rose Hill Cemetery Burials (7/16/2010)
Mitchell Cemetery Burials (7/16/2010)
Boone County Biography Index (2/28/2010)
Cemeteries Past and Present transcribed by Tina Keister added 2/28/2010
Misc. Boone County Biography Index transcribed by Tina Keister added 2/28/2010
Boone County Biography Indexes 1880, 1902, 1914 transcribed by Tina Keister added 2/27/2010
Swede Valley Cemetery Page 1, Page 2, and Page 3 added 2/27/2010 by Sandi Oviatt and Chuck DeBruns
Misc. Burials Boone Co Added Sept 20, 2009 Transcribed by Tina Keister
Mitchell Cemetery Added Sept 20. 2009 Transcribed by Tina Keister
Runyan Cemetery Restoration Burials Added Sept 20, 2009 Done by Tina Keister
Pleasant Hill Cemetery Complete Burials Added Sept 20.2009 Walked and Transcribed by Sandi Oviatt and Chuck DeBruns
Moore Cemetery Added Sept 20, 2009 Transcribed by Tina Keister
Boone Memorial Gardens Cemetery Added Sept 20, 2009 Transcribed by Sandi Oviatt
Fairview-Union Cemetery Added Sept 20, 2009 Transcribed by Tina Keister
Boone County Poor Farm Complete Burials Added Sept 19, 2009 Transcribed and Researched by Tina Keister
Beaver Cemetery Added Sept 19.2009 Transcribed by Tina Keister
1880 Boone County Civil War History-Call of Regiments Added Sept 19, 2009 Transcribed by Tina Keister
1856 Boone Co Iowa State Census Added Sept 19, 2009 Transcribed by Tina Keister
1849 Boone County Iowa State Census Added Sept 19, 2009 Transcribed by Tina Keister
Cassell-Iowa Lutheran Home Cemetery Burials Added Nov 24, 2008
Civil War Roster and Regiments Update Added Nov 24, 2008
1850 Boone County Iowa Federal Census Added Nov 24, 2008
1883 Pensioners Added May 4, 2008
Added "Wars in Boone County" to the new Military Index Added May 4, 2007
MANY NEW HISTORY articles. Please refer to the new History index. Added May 4, 2007
Entire web site redone to make it easier to use and pleasing to the eye. May 4, 2007
Records of Poor House Patients, transcribed by Sandi Oviatt and Tina Keister 2006. Added November 21, 2006
Bible College Cemetery burials, walked and transcribed by Sandi Oviatt in 2005/2006. Added November 16, 2006
Portions of the 1880 Boone County History Book - churches, township histories, Henry Lott story.
Transcribed by Tina Keister. Added November 9, 2006
Hillsdale - Swede Point Cemetery burials, walked and transcribed by Sandi Oviatt July 2006. Added November 7, 2006
Prairie Lawn Cemetery burials, transcribed by Pat Frette, October 2006. Added November 6, 2006
Runyan Family Burial Plot, done by Tina Keister and Chelley Clark in May 2006. Added November 6, 2006
Hickory Grove Cemetery, walked and transcribed through death records by Tina Keister May 2006. Added November 6, 2006
Oakwood Cemetery; transcribed by Pat Frette, 2006. Added November 5, 2006
Quincy Cemetery, transcribed by Tina Keister in 2006. Added November 5, 2006
Holloway Family Burials, by Tina Keister in 2005. Added November 3, 2006
Marriages in Boone County 1851-1900. Added October 30, 2006