What's New!!

April 24, 2008

    Corrected email address for Dan Kiley entries under Surnames and Lookup Volunteers

    Added Name Index for Plat Maps for Grant Twp, Lee Twp, Oakland Twp, Osceola Twp, Page 42-43 Towns of Hampton, Geneva and Burdette, Page 46-47 Towns of Sheffield, Faulkner, Alexander, Bradford, Hansell and Latimer, Page 50-51 Towns of Popejoy, Coulter, Oakland, Dows, and Chapin.  This completes the individual township indexes.

January 24, 2008

    Corrected 1856 IA Census hyperlinks to files on HTTP instead of FTP.

    Added Name Index for Plat Maps for Geneva Twp, Hamilton Twp, and Reeve Twp.

January 11, 2008

    Corrected W. A. Harriman to Henry A. Harriman on 3 picture captions per message from his great-grandson..

    Added HANSEN to the Surnames Page.

    Added a TO DO List to track request for transcriptions or data.

October 30, 2007

    Added page images from 1934-1935 Burdette School Reunion Book.  Added an icon and link to the IAGenWeb "Join our Team"..

October 3, 2007

    Added numerous Surnames, and added new LINKS page to display links to external websites about Franklin County related families.

April 29, 2007

    Added Lookup Volunteer Jenny Rasmusson for Hillside-Hampton Cemetery book.

April 21, 2007

    Added Name Indexes for Plat Maps for Ingham Twp and Morgan Twp.

April 3, 2007

    Added a Birthday Postcards page (not genealogy, but some beautiful birthday cards from 1912)

March 12, 2007

    Added Name Indexes for Plat Maps for Mott Twp and Washington Twp

January 11, 2007

    Added Name Indexes for Plat Maps for Marion Twp and Scott Twp

January 5, 2007

    Added Name Indexes for Plat Maps for Clinton Twp, Richland Twp, Ross Twp, West Fork Twp, Wisner Twp.

December 29, 2006

    Added pictures to Groups, Unknown Persons, People letters A and T, and created the page for Pictures of Places.

December 15, 2006

    Added the 1908 Plat Map images from the Standard Atlas of Franklin County Iowa.  These images will later be replaced with better copies and lists of all names on them by township and section.

December 1, 2006

    A new look!  I am trying to organize the the page to make finding useful information easier.  No additional data was added, however the opening page was redesigned, and new organization of the pictures was introduced.  Any suggestions are appreciated as always.  The data on the page is the same as it was before this reorganization at this time.