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


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