Types of materials we are
looking for include family histories, biographies, photos, obituaries,
tombstone photos & inscriptions, cemetery lists, etc. Because of
copyright laws, only materials dated before 1923 or written by the
submitter will be accepted.
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Cemeteries: Updated
November 19, 2008
Be sure to
check the
IAGenWeb Gravestone Photo Project
for your ancestors! It is
a database displaying over399,500Gravestones from all over Iowa ... with
over26,700
of them from
Linn
County! The database is growing larger
everyday, so be sure to visit it often.
Another
great resource is the new searchable database for the Linn County WPA
Grave Registration Project.
It is now complete, with 18,506 records for Linn county online!
It is
also a state-wide database.
Visitors can search one county at
a time or they can plug in a surname
and search the entire state database at once, over 1/2 million names
presently. It also has soundex search
ability and a very popular "Post-em Note" feature which allows
visitors to add to or correct the existing data and also to make
themselves known to yet to be discovered cousins.
Cemetery
(links to individual pages,
photos & lists when available)
Community
Section
Latitude
Longitude
Directions (maps
with specific directions)
Township
(maps with approximate
locations)
A Avenue NE Burials
Cedar Rapids
No longer exists ... cemetery was moved in the 1800's