Emmet County, Iowa
Lookups

Emmet County needs volunteers. If you own or have access to any Emmet County reference books (such as census, cemetery, marriage, newspaper abstracts, family histories, biographies, etc.) and would be willing to do lookups for other Emmet County researchers, please contact me. Let me know what resources you have and I will put your name on the lookup page. Send email to: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator

Census:  Federal census 1820-1930; Iowa state census 1856, 1885, 1895,1905,1915 and 1925.  Christine Martin has offered to do census lookups.

General lookups at the courthouse--Mary Ellen Sicard has graciously offered to do lookups at the Emmet County courthouse.  Contact her at:  backhome@mchsi.com

History of Armstrong, Iowa

A STEP BACK IN TIME...Armstrong's Family History, published in 1993.

Emmet County volunteer Helen has offered to look up information concerning the town of Armstrong. Please send your requests to: HelenH58@aol.com

1965 Estherville High School yearbook

Emmet County volunteer Phyllis has offered to do lookups in the 1965 HoLoCo, the yearbook of Estherville High School. Contact Phyllis at: Phyli2000@yahoo.com

History of Emmet County, Iowa Vol. III 1976

Emmet County volunteer Phyllis has offered to do lookups in Vol. III of the History of Emmet County.

Phyllis also will provide lookups in Armstrong's history book, A Step Back in Time, Armstrong's Family History 1993.

Please send requests for lookups in either book to: Phyli2000@yahoo.com

Armstrong School Yearbooks

Emmet County volunteer Phyllis has graciously offered to do lookups in the school yearbooks for Armstrong. She has the books for 1966 thru 1976, also the year 1978.

Please send requests for any of the above years to: Phyli2000@yahoo.com

Emmet & Dickinson Counties history, Vol. II, published 1917

The GREAT DANE
Ringsted Alumni 1922-1979
Armstrong - Ringsted Alumni, 1980 - 1999
(this has pictures of all the graduating classes)

The Lutheran Church - Ringsted, Iowa 1882 - 1932
( this includes the History of the first churches in Ringsted including: St.Ansgar Danish Lutheran, St. Paul's Danish Evangelical Lutheran, and St. John's Danish Evangelical Lutheran)

"75 Years of Blessing" 1897 - 1972, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Ringsted, Iowa

"100 Years of Blessing" 1897 - 1997, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Ringsted, Iowa
(this includes lists of names by year of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, deaths as well as histories of the various church organizations)

Ringsted, Iowa 1899 - 1974, History of Our Heritage
( this includes histories of the town, churches, businesses and service organizations, also includes some history of Hoprig, Jack Creek, Halfa)

 The following indexes compiled by the Emmet county Genealogical Society are also available for lookups:

Emmet County Marriages 1871-1941

Cemeteries
Ringsted Memorial, St. Pauls, and St. Johns Cemetery
Oak Hill Cemetery
East Side Cemetery & East Side Memorial Cemetery
Swan Lake Township Cemetery, Center Township Cemetery, Lincoln Township Cemetery, Palestine Lutheran Cemetery, Norwegian Cemetery, Union Cemetery, Estherville Lutheran Cemetery, St. Patrick's Catholic Cemetery
High Lake - Jack Creek Cemetery, & Wallingford Lutheran Cemetery Armstrong Cemetery

Emmet County volunteer Esther Tripp has generously offered to do lookups in the above resources. Please contact her for more information.

Back to Emmet County Main Page

Emmet County Iowa Genealogy
URL: http://iagenweb.org/emmet
Page by Janet M. Young
Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator