Lookups

Cedar County, Iowa
  

Researchers needing lookups in Cedar County sources may request a free lookup. Please follow these simple guidelines:

  • Put CEDAR COUNTY LOOKUP in the subject line and the name of the source on the first line of your message. Some volunteers have offered to do lookups from more than one source and in more than one county. This will ensure that your request is not overlooked.
     
  • Follow with the specific information you are looking for - one simple request per e-mail - and please do not ask for "everybody with X surname," or for hard copies to be mailed. Also, please comply with any additional restrictions listed by the volunteer.
     
  • After receiving a response to your lookup request, remember to send a thank you to the volunteer who helped you!
     
  • The Cedar County IAGenWeb needs volunteers who are willing to do lookups in their own resources or at their local libraries at no charge. Everyone who owns or has access to any Cedar County information (such as census, cemetery, marriage, scrapbooks, newspapers, etc.) and would be willing to do lookups for other researchers, please contact the County Coordinator

The following volunteers have offered to do lookups at no cost:
"Civil War Diary of Alexander G. Downing" Contains many Cedar County names. Dale E. Miller, Jr.
Courthouse records, obituaries, Stones and Sites, Cedar Land Vol. 1, 1878 History of Cedar Co., some Cedar Co. Historical Reviews, the History of Rochester (done in 1987),  Rural Directory of Cedar Co. 1919-1924;  pictorial atlases for Cedar County for 1977 and 1983. Jacie Thomson
"Durant 1954 Centennial Book" Josie Banks
"Title Atlas Company 1965 Cedar County, Iowa Atlas".The Atlas lists approximately 1,800 families living in Cedar County in 1965. A typical family listing has the names of both spouses, the name of the wife's father, the names of the children (and some spouses of children), occupation, religion, location, and other miscellaneous information.

I also subscribe to Ancestry.com, Heritage Quest, and Newspaperarchive.com databases.  My personal Family Tree Maker file has more than 158,000 individuals, with prime focus in Jones County but much spill-over into Cedar County.		 Tom Myles
History of Cedar County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, 1878 (history and biographical sketches)

Fry Funeral Home, Tipton, Iowa (obituaries since 2003)

Chapman Funeral Home, Clarence, Iowa  (obituaries since 2005)		 These are some sources you can check online sent courtesy of Tom Myles
I have access to ancestry.com, worldvitalrecords.com, newspaperarchives.com, I will be happy to assist anyone with research.
"Herbert Hoover's Hometown" by Maud Stratton - lots of history of the West Branch  area
"West Branch: The first 150 Years"
West Branch /Springdale Alumni lists from mid 1800s-ca1997.
"Stones & Sites" 		Melissa (Mayhew) Grandt

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