What's New at Howard County

As of 3/1/2018 all Howard County cemeteries were 100% photo surveyed and submitted to IGPP

March 2023

Addition to Howard Cemetery (Donald D. Dybevik)

November 2022

Addition to Howard Cemetery (Lowell E. Head)

October 2022

Added 78 Obituaries to the Howard County Obituaries Index

August 2022

Howard County towns from the "Gazetteer and Business Directory of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway and Branches," Detroit, Michigan. Polk, Murphy & Co., Publishers. 1875.

June, July, Aug 2022

Additions to Howard Cemetery

May 2022

Iowa Veteran's Cemetery, Howard County Burials

April 2022

Added 75 Obituaries to the Howard County Obituaries Index

February 2022

Additions to Howard Cemetery

December 2021

Two new reference links: QuickSheets and First Name Abbreviations

November 2021

Added 79 Obituaries to the Howard County Obituaries Index

July 2021

Added 1936 Black and Gold, Elma High School Yearbook

June 2021

Added 71 Obituaries to the Howard County Obituaries Index.

May 2021

Added 72 Obituaries to the Howard County Obituaries Index.

Added 1935 Black and Gold, Elma High School Yearbook

April 2021

Added 56 Obituaries to the Howard County Alphabetical Obituaries index.

March 2021

Added the complete list of the August 1919 8th grade Graduates .

Added the complete lists of the 1919 St Joseph and Elma Public Graduates.

Added the 1919 Cresco High Commencement. .

February 2021

Added a list of the county's 1919 Returning Servicemen .

Added the complete list of the 1919 October Term Jurors.

January 2021

Posted a Complete Record Set consisting of links to the transcribed IAGenWeb Board postings of all the indicated special Events that were published in the Cresco Plain Dealer during 1915, Anniversaries(13), Births(90), Marriages(108), Marriage Licenses(2) and Deaths(257).

Added the complete list of the 1915 October Term Jurors.

Added the complete list of the 1919 8th grade Graduates .

Added the complete lists of the 1919 March and December Term Jurors.

Added 149 Obituaries to the Howard County Alphabetical Obituaries index.

December 2020

Added 57 Obituaries to the Howard County Alphabetical Obituaries index.

Added the county's 1889 Honor Roll .

Added a list of the county's 1918 Discharge's .

Added the complete list of the county's October 1918 Inductees 22 Inductees .

Added the complete list of the county's August 1918 23 Inductees .

Added the complete list of the county's August 1918 33 Registrants .

Added the complete list of the county's July 1918 Howard County Registeration 86 Registrants .

Added the county's 1918 July Honor Roll .

Added the complete list of the county's 1918 88 Registrants .

Added the complete list of the county's May 25 Draft .

Added the complete list of the county's quota for the May Draft 11 Draftees .

Added the complete list of the county's quota for the April Draft 20 Draftees .

Added the complete list of the county's quota for the first Draft 76 Draftees .

Added a newspaper article about the 1918 Tornado.

November 2020

Added the 1918 Cresco High Commencement. .

Added complete lists of the 1918 March and December Term Jurors.

Added the complete list of the 76 1918 February Draftees .

October 2020

Added a List of Historic Places .

Added the complete lists of the 1917 Draftees and Exemptions and the 2nd Contingent

Added the complete list of the 1937 8th grade Rural Graduates.

Added the complete lists of the 1917 Assumption and St Joseph Graduates.

Added the complete lists of the 1917 October and November Term Juries.

Added the complete list of the 1917 8th grade Rural Graduates.

Added 13 Post Cards to the Howard County Post card collection.

September 2020

Added 51 Obituaries to the Howard County Alphabetical Obituaries index.

Posted a Complete Record Set consisting of all the Patents issued to Howard County residents through August, 2020.

August 2020

Posted a Complete Record Set consisting of links to the transcribed IAGenWeb Board postings of all the indicated special Events that were published in the Twice-A-Week and Cresco Plain Dealer during 1913, Anniversaries(14), Births(85), Marriages(140), Marriage Licenses(48) and Deaths(488).

Moved 741 names from the recently submitted Obituaries page to the Alphabetical Obituary pages.

Added 52 Obituaries to the Howard County Alphabetical Obituaries index.

July 2020

Posted a Complete Record Set consisting of an index to all of the indicated special Events that were published in the Cresco Plain Dealer during 1916, Anniversaries(21), Births(103), Marriages(216), Marriage Licenses(3) and Deaths(846).

Added the complete list of the 1916 8th grade Rural Graduates.

Added the complete list of the 1916 Grand and March Term Petit Jurors.

Added 150 Obituaries to the Howard County Alphabetical Obituaries index.

May 2020

Posted a Complete Record Set consisting of links to the transcribed IAGenWeb Board postings of all the indicated special Events that were published in the Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer during 1911, Anniversaries(16), Births(91), Marriages(95), Marriage Licenses(79) and Deaths(195).

Added 52 Obituaries to the Howard County Alphabetical Obituaries index.

Posted a Complete Record sets consisting of the Indices for all of the indicated special Events that were published in the Cresco Plain Dealer during 1915, Anniversaries(13), Births(71), Marriages(221), Marriage Licenses(3) and Deaths(495).

April 2020

Added the 1915 Cresco High Commencement. and 8th grade Rural Graduates.

Added the complete list of the 1915 March and December Term Jurors.

Added 101 Obituaries to the Howard County Alphabetical Obituaries index.

March 2020

Added the complete list of 1912  Assumption Commencement and 8th grade Rural Graduates.

Posted a Complete Record Set consisting of links to the transcribed IAGenWeb Board postings of all the indicated special Events that were published in the Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer during 1912, Anniversaries(16), Births(77), Marriages(118), Marriage Licenses(89) and Deaths(189).

Added the complete list of 1913 Jurors for the Grand, March Petit and the December Petit Juries.

February 2020

Added the 1913 Cresco High Commencement.

Added 154 Obituaries to the Howard County Alphabetical Obituaries index.

January 2020

Posted a Complete Record sets consisting of the Indices for all of the indicated special Events that were published in the Cresco Plain Dealer during 1931, Anniversaries(7), Marriages(125), Marriage Licenses(39) and Deaths(206).