Clinton County IaGenWeb

When Requesting a Look-up

Please be as specific as you can when asking for help.  If you know of something you would like them to check, they would be glad to help.  They cannot do lookups for "all the Smith's" or "the family of John Smith".  

Some things to keep in mind:

When asking someone to look up information for you the more info you can give the volunteer the better your chances for results.    

• Only ask for information on one or two people at a time.  Wait for a response before asking for more.
• Only ask for information from one or two sources at a time -- Please don't ask someone to search all the records at the library for a certain surname. 
• There are over 80 cemeteries in Clinton.  If you don't know which cemetery your ancestor was buried in, try to narrow it down a bit by town or township.  If possible, get an obituary or a copy of the death record first.

Look-Ups from the Clinton County Historical Society:   They have offered to do look-ups in the resources available at the Historical Society.

Jan Hansen is with the Clinton County Historical Society and will do lookups using the information available there.

Ruth Maring will take tombstone pictures from around the county.

Ann Soenksen, President Central Community Historical Society, DeWitt, is willing to do look-ups for all kinds of Clinton Co. information.

Richard Carstensen has quite a bit of info on all cemeteries in Clinton County.

Judi Sayre Berry has a copy of the index to the Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery in Welton.

Michelle has The Farm Journal Illustrated Rural Directory of Clinton County 1918-1923 . It was published by Wilmer Atkinson Company Philadelphia.

LDS Microfilm Look-ups: Warren has access to Clinton information on microfilm at his local FHC.  

The Clinton County/Gateway Genealogical Society has donated the index to Pape Funeral Home to the Clinton Public Library (-- Way to go and thank you so much!) They are making copies of the records for $2. To check the index, you can find it at the Public library or contact the Clinton Co. Gateway Gene. Society.  

Pamela has access to census info at Ancestry.com and has offered to do census lookups. She is recently married and way behind on answering emails so it may take a while for her to get back to you.

Elaine Meis (email: EMEIS@aol.com ) has a copy of Who's Who in Iowa 1940, and would be willing to do lookups for people. 

Susan is with the Genealogy Division of the Italian-American Cultural Center. We have put all of the American Citizen Newspapers on CD. The holdings cover the years 1923 through 1972. We would be happy to provide look-ups although the majority of listings involve Polk county.

Susan DeFazio DeFazio@IACCofIA.org
Italian-American Cultural Center of Iowa
www.IACCofIA.org
alternate look-up volunteer: Kathy Foggia

Helpful pages

• Books We Own
• Genealogical CD Lookups
• Genealogical WFT (World Family Tree) CD Lookups