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What's
New:
Daily
Updates: The County Coordinators, along
with several members of the Madison County Genealogical
Society are working daily on obituaries, cemetery
records, marriage records, birth records, headstone
photos, newspaper gleanings and other research
pertaining to Madison County. This results in what
amounts to daily updates of this website, too numerous
to list in a what's new format. If you visited this
website before and didn't find your relative's
information, we urge you to look again and to look each
time you visit here. For example, in the six months of
Sep 2011 thru Mar 2011, 841 obits and 802 birth records were
posted. In addition, 269 marriage transcriptions between
Aug 1863 and Mar 1866 were reviewed and verified or
corrected. In the same period, several hundred cemetery
records were updated with additional information.
More
Funeral Cards:
On 01 May 2012, we added approximately 70 new funeral
home cards to our collection. Click here
to access them.
1930
Census - East Peru Posted:
On 18 Apr 2012, Enumeration District 61-24 of the 1930
Federal Census covering the town of East Peru was
posted. Thanks go to Bill Croft, Transcriber, for his
excellent work. The census can be viewed here.
1910
& 1911 Marriages:
On 29 Feb 2012, the 1910 and 1911 Madison County
marriages were posted, consisting of 477 records
representing about 225 marriages. Click here
to access them.
Madison
County Family Tree: Have you ever wondered
how all these people listed in the births, deaths, and
marriages are interrelated? To answer that question, the
County Coordinators have developed a "Madison
County Family Tree", currently including over
72,000 names of people who were born, lived, married,
and/or died in Madison County. You can access that
family tree at WorldConnect.
1940
Census Released: As of the 01 Apr 2012, the
National Archives has released the 1940
Federal Census for viewing and downloading. If
you are interested in transcribing the 1940 census for
Madison County, please contact the County Coordinators.
Census
Search: On 7 Nov 2011, we added a search
capability to our census
page so that you can search on a surname in all
censuses at once rather than opening individual files.
Webster
Methodist Church: On 11 Nov 2011, we
posted a history of the Webster
Methodist Church. It has many references to early
Madison County residents. Thanks go to Donna Crow for supplying
the Transcription.
Births
Added: As of April 1, 2012, Madison County
births for 1911 (341 records) have been added to the Birth
List. Click "Birth Records" on the left to
access them.
Obituary Team Crosses 27,000 Mark - Starting at about 850 obits
at the beginning of 2006, the obit team passed the
27,000 mark on 22 Mar 2012. Special thanks go to team
members Pat Hochstetler, Ida Morse, Mary Welty Hart,
and
Shirley Keating, for
contributing their valuable time and effort to this
project.
The Iowa Gravestones Project
includes 37,842
headstone photos for
Madison County cemeteries as of 10 Oct 2011.
This project is now complete except that it is on-going
for new burials and will be updated anytime that
previously lost/buried gravestones are discovered.
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