March 2008
- We are about 35% of the way through updating the Liberty township cemetery listings. Please keep checking back!
- Two Clines added to the Pleasant Hill cemetery listings
February 2008
- JoAnne Hirschman added a HUGE amount of information (over 400 grave stone records) to the Good Hope cemetery. Thanks a bunch, JoAnne!
- Janice Moen added some more information about the unidentified Nelsons to the unidentified people page. Let's hope this helps her connect names to these faces.
- Don Blake submittted many cemetery records to Pleasant Hill cemetery. Thanks, Don!
January 2008
- Names added and corrections made for the Afton cemetery by Don Blake. Names also added to the plat listings
- DAR donates a directory to the Afton cemetery.
- Added three photographs to the Mental Health Institute's (Beacon Hollow) cemetery submitted by Shirley (Mrs. John) Perrett of Quimby via Conley Wolterman.
- Added and corrected records for some Geringers in the Marcus-Amherst cemetery listing
- Janice Moen has added a photograph of some unidentified people (possibly Nelsons)in her family
- Janice also gave us a partial description of her ancestry
October 2007
- Micahel Noonan has helped us identify a person on the unidentified persons page. He gave us some information on the Macy family to go with that person.
- Michelle and Kevin Cassidy submitted three new marriage records
- Don Blake submittted some more cemetery records to Oak Hill cemetery
- Linda Linn pointed out to us that a few cemetery records for Good Hope cemetery actually belonged in Woodbury county's Good Hope cemetery
- JoAnne Hirschman did an outstanding job walking Good Hope cemetery and adding 97 new records! Thanks very much, JoAnne!
August 2007
- Addresses have changed on the cemetery records added to Lookups page. Lisa Rex has also begun work on an Index to the Atlas of Cherokee County, Iowa (1964) and is willing to do lookups on it.
June 2007
- Several cemetery records added to Oak Hill cemetery by Deb Wyffels
May 2007
- Cemetery records for Chapmans added to Good Hope cemetery
- Cherokee County townships map added on Townships page
- Afton township map added to Afton township page
April 2007
- Instructions for requesting records from the Mental Healh Institute added
- Many many cemetery records for Diamond, Grandview and Sunset View cemeteries added by Conley Wolterman! Thanks, Conley!
- A photograph of the commemorative bicentennial plaque at the West Pilot cemetery added by Conley Wolterman.
- Surname lookups for Champion are no longer available
February 2007
- Names added to and history modified for the Afton cemetery.
- Surname lookups added or modified for Ferrin, Miller and Pallesen.
December 2006
- Names added to the Afton and Pleasant Hill cemeteries.
- The names of the deceased in the Grand Meadow class of 1938 have been updated
- A transcription of the daybook of Charlotta Schultz Ogren
- A photograph of the Reverand Hall and family
September 2006
- Names added to Afton and Oak Hill cemeteries.
- Documenting of the Destruction of Maryhill Catholic Church
- Surname lookups added or modified for Bischel, Clark, Gadmer, Hoon, Kolpin, Lathrop, Mann, Otwell, Pingel, Reckoff, Ruebsam, Van Amberg
August 2006
- Added photographs for all cemeteries (courtesy of Don Blake)
July 2006
- Cherokee County firsts (see County History)
- Early Cherokee County populations (see County History)
- Early History of Cherokee County (see County History)
- Early Marriages 1866-1880 (see Marriages)
April 2006
- New County coordinator Lynette (Sleezer) Edsall
- Redesign of the web page
- Township Histories (see Townships)
