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May, 2012
Ralph Leonard has returned as Coordinator after a 5 month illness. A huge THANK YOU to Steve Williams for maintaining the site while I was gone!
April, 2012
Added an addendum to the Van Patten family tree. (sw)
February, 2012
Added two contributed photos of the Mullinnix family to the gallery. (sw)
January, 2012
Added a contributed photo of Elliott & Olive Beall Utterback to the gallery.
Added six more biographies to A Genealogical & Biographical History of Keokuk County, Iowa-Lewis
Publishing Company, 1903.
December, 2011
Added an index for the 1860 Federal Census of Warren Township.
Added twelve more biographies to A Genealogical & Biographical History of Keokuk County, Iowa-Lewis
Publishing Company, 1903.
November, 2011
Added donated materials from Wendell Melrose:Gregory – Kinzer Biographies, Our Kinzer Family.
Added an index for the 1860 Federal Census of Benton Township.
Added eighteen more biographies to A Genealogical & Biographical History of Keokuk County, Iowa-Lewis
Publishing Company, 1903.
September, 2011
Added twelve more biographies to A Genealogical & Biographical History of Keokuk County, Iowa-Lewis
Publishing Company, 1903.
August, 2011
Added a photo page for a WWII era photo of Lisle W. Challinor & Robert F. Coria.
Added a transcription of Clear
Creek: A Torrent of Grace; SS. Peter and Paul Parrish 1858-1958
Added twenty-four more biographies to A Genealogical & Biographical History of Keokuk County, Iowa-Lewis
Publishing Company, 1903.
Added ten photographs to the Delta Covered Bridge page.
July, 2011
Added an index with image links for the 1850 Federal Census of Richland Township.
Added twelve more biographies to A Genealogical & Biographical History of Keokuk County, Iowa-Lewis Publishing Company, 1903.
June, 2011
Added an index, in two parts, for the 1860 Federal Census of Steady Run Township: part 1; part 2.
Added a page for researcher contributions for Highland Cemetery.
Added twelve biographies to the transcription of A Genealogical & Biographical History of Keokuk County, Iowa- Lewis PublishingCompany, 1903.
May, 2011
Added a Van Patten Family page.
Added an index with image links for the 1860 Federal Census
of Jackson Township: Part 1, Part 2.
Began the transcription of A Genealogical & Biographical History of Keokuk County, Iowa- Lewis Publishing Company, 1903, by adding six biographies and the Index.
April, 2011
Added an index with image links for the 1860 Federal Census
of Richland Township: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
Added 5 more sections of the 1880 History: Old Courthouse; The Second Contest; The Great Tornado;
The Jail; The Keokuk County Vigilance Committee.
March, 2011
Added 30 more sections of the 1880 History: Prairie Township; Claims Clubs; Clear Creek Township; Old Records;
County Medical Society; County Finances; Gold Excitement; I&W Railroad; Old Settler's Association; Political;
John Brown's Soul & Bleeding Kansas; Lafayette Township; Liberty Township; Poor Farm;
County-Seat Contests
Territorial & County Roads; Surveys & Land Sales; Steady Run Township; Sigourney Township; Religious;
Sherman's March to thr Sea; Richland Township; Prominent Citizens Living and Dead; The CRI&P Railroad;
Railways; First Claims Allowed; The First Court; The First District Judge; The First Tax Levy; The Fool's Book.
Added
indexes to the 1860 census for Lafayette and Clear Creek Townships, complete with links to census images.
Added a transcription of the county's largest cemetery from the 1975 Cemetery book: Pleasant Grove Cemetery (formerly West Cemetery).
February, 2011
Added a photo to the photo gallery: Greiner-Rettler Wedding.
Added 10 more sections of the 1880 History: A Border Sketch; A Western Romance; Accidents and Crime;
Agricultural Society; Adams Township; First Commissioners' Court; Early Reminiscences of Men and Things;
Educational; German Township; English River Township.
Added 5 family pages entitled: Descendants of: Christoff Reigel; John Singer; Johann Michael Mueller;
John Moffit; Walter Noah Byers.
Added indexes to the 1860 census for Adams, English, and Liberty Townships, complete with links to census
images.
January, 2011
Added to the site an index to the 1860 Census of Prairie Township, complete with links to census images.
Completed the update to the new look of the site, finally! Your patience has been appreciated!
December, 2010
Added a list of names to the 1912 Adams Township Atlas.
Added map links to the Cemeteries by Township page.
Created and added Laura Straube's transcriptions of farmer's names on the 1949 Township Atlas.
Added transcriptions of the following cemeteries:
Coal Creek, Highland, Lutheran, McFarlan, St. Joseph's, Sixteen, Waddell, White Oak.
Added Surname listings for the IAGenWeb Project's Gravestone Photo Project and W.P.A. Graves Registration.
Work to update to the new look of the site continues.
November, 2010
Created and linked new photo pages for the McFarlan Family and Martinsburg Schools.
Created and added Joe Conroy's transcription of newspaper articles about the Skunk River War.
September, 2010
Created and linked a new photo page for an unknown family. Identification help is requested.
August, 2010
Added the following new pages to the site: 1975 Cemetery Book; Johnson Cemetery, 1880 History; A New Departure, Pioneer Life, Growth of the County, County Organization, and Election Precincts.
Work to update the look of the site continues.
May, 2010
Added the following new pages to the site: Cemetery, 1975 Cemetery Book; Trueblood Cemetery, Pennington Cemetery, 1880 History; First Settlers.
Work to update the look of the site continues.
March, 2010
Added the following new pages to the site: Photo Gallery: Melvina Whitson, Military: WWII Army Enlistment Index Page 1, Military: WWII Army Enlistment Index Page 2, Military: WWII Army Reserve Enlistment Index, Military: WWII Casualties, Military: Korean Conflict Casualty Index, Military: Vietnam War Casualty Index & Links, Cemetery: 1975 Cemetery Book; Brater Cemetery, Doggett Cemetery, Harris Gravestone.
Work to update the look of the site continues.
February, 2010
Ralph Leonard takes
over as your new
county coordinator.
Many pages have since been
given a new
look, and I appreciate everyone's patience until the rest are finished.
November, 2009
Updated the Photo Gallery with the Arnold Family Reunion page.
October, 2009
Updated the Cemeteries page.
September, 2009
The following chapter of The History of Keokuk County - 1880 - has been added: Early Settlements.
August, 2009
The following chapter of The History of Keokuk County - 1880 - has been added: Indian Incidents and Reminicences.
March, 2009
The following chapter of The History of Keokuk County - 1880 - has been added: Keokuk and Wapello.
February, 2009
The following chapter of The History of Keokuk County - 1880 - has been added: Indian and Indian Affairs.
January, 2009
The History of Keokuk County - 1880. I have started transcribing and added the following 3 chapters of the book: Origin of Name, Physical Geography, and Mathematical Geography.
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