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Visitors...Read This First:
This website is unusual in
that all
of the available official county records directly related
to genealogy (births, marriages, deaths and
burials) are posted here. The only exception is
that we are preserving privacy by not posting
births and marriages newer than 100 years old or
the data has not been released by state or
county officials.
The only "sets" of data related to
official records left to post are yearly updates
of the county births and marriages to
accommodate the privacy issue and newly released
data such as the Iowa Delayed Certificates of
Birth.
In
addition to the county records, we have
transcribed and posted every Federal Census from
1850 through 1930 and every Iowa State Census
from 1849 through 1895. Every gravestone has
been photographed and posted and a team is
dedicated to photographing new burials as they
occur. We have attempted
to post every obituary (over 33,000 on line)
and have a continuing project to make the
collection complete.
As
you peruse the "What's New" section
below, keep in mind that with the exception of
the marriage and birth records we post each year
the data we are adding is based on research by
the Madison County team aimed at enhancing the
official county, state and federal data already
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What's
New
Daily
Updates: The County Coordinator, 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, the Madison County Family
Tree, and other research
pertaining to Madison County. This results in many daily updates of this
website. If we were to list each change we have made
over the past six months, you would have to plow through
well over 100 pages of change documentation. However, we
have elected to post complete data sets for your perusal
as they are generated. See "1917 Madison County
Births" and "New Birth Records Project"
below to access new data sets.
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. In the period from Oct 2017 thru
Mar 2018, we have posted 702 new obituaries and added
alternate obituaries to about 175 already on line. New
birth records added in this period number 1300. Updating in the
Madison County Family Tree resulted in 852 additional
people listed. Finally, cemetery
records were updated to reflect burials within the past
6 months. Listed
below are some of the highlights of What's New in the
past year.
1917
Madison County Births - The complete set of
Madison County births for calendar year 1917, comprised
of 319 records, have
been posted to our birth pages as of March 31, 2018. To
see the list of 2017 births, click here.
To see them integrated with all births, select "Birth
Records" on the left.
Madison
County Family Tree Issue: - The
Madison County Family Tree is hosted on the RootsWeb
website that was taken over by Ancestry a few years ago.
Because of some kind of security issue, Ancestry elected
to take all of RootsWeb down in mid December 2017. Although
the Family Tree availability has been restored, our
ability to update it has not. A large backlog of changes
to the tree are being held until we again have access.
Also note that Ancestry quit indexing new uploads over a
year ago so new additions and other changes do not show
up if you do a tree search but can be accessed if you go
to the surnames list of the individual data base.
More Madison County Newspapers Are
Now On Line - In
mid summer 2017, digitized versions of the Earlham
Echo were put on line to supplement the already
posted Winterset Newspapers. In October 2017, digitized
versions of The East Peru Mail, The
Independent and the Truro News have been
added
Recommended
Reading - Recently added to our County
History page is a link to the November 01, 1906
edition of The
Winterset Madisonian which was their
semi-centennial edition including an extensive history
of the early years of Madison County and its people.
1916
Marriages On Line - Madison County Marriage
Records for calendar year 1916 were posted as of 30 Sep 2017. The data consists of 219 new records. Click on
"MARRIAGE RECORDS" on the left to access the
data.
Birth Record Project Completed - As of 10 May
2018, all of the available Iowa State Birth Records
(ISBR) and Iowa Delayed Certificates of Birth (IDCB)
have been integrated into our Birth List. At completion,
2177 previously unlisted births had been added. Specific
changes can be seen here.
Current
Contributors: Maintenance and
improvement of this website would be impossible without
the continued support of volunteer contributors. Special
thanks go to Pat Hochstetler who has worked tirelessly
in finding and transcribing older obituaries. Over the past year, Eileen Reed
has submitted many obituaries and family photos which
are greatly appreciated. And finally, thanks go to our
team who works on current obituaries and gravestone
photos, Ida Morse, and Shirley Keating.
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 Coordinator has developed a "Madison
County Family Tree", currently including 92,773
names of people who were born, lived, married,
and/or died in Madison County. Information was being
added to the family tree daily and 852 names have been added to the tree between
Oct 2017 and 15 Dec 2017 when access to uploads was
suspended. Click on the Madison County
Family Tree icon to the left.
Gravestone
Photos: All gravestones in Madison County
have been photographed and posted at the Iowa Gravestones Project.
Newly discovered gravestones in the period 01 Oct 2017
to Mar 31 2018 have been posted and can also be seen in
a separately compiled list
of new postings.
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