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What's
New:
We've moved:
As of March 20, 2008 we are happy to be hosted on the
IAGenWeb server. Checkout the Friends of IAGenWeb by
clicking on their logo at the bottom of this page.
Weddings
On-Line: At about the beginning of
March, 2008, we started adding newspaper extracts of
Madison County weddings to our marriage records. Click
on the marriage date to see the wedding description.
Currently, there are about 50 weddings on line and we
are adding a few each week.
Birth
Records Updated: On March 25th, we
completed an overhaul of the birth records, adding a
column on each page to show the source of the data
verifying birth in Madison County. We also added about
800 records, primarily from the Winterset Madisonian in
the 1870s through mid-1890s.
The Iowa Gravestones Project
includes 35,028 headstone photos for
Madison County cemeteries as of 22 April 2008.
A project
status page has been added to our website so you
can determine the status of your cemeteries of interest.
Click on
the "Iowa Gravestone Photo Project"
icon on the right to access the site.
Obituary Team Crosses 21,000 Mark - Starting at about 850 obits
at the beginning of 2006, the obit team passed the
21,000 mark on April 23, 2008. Special thanks go to team
members Linda Brittain, Pat Hochstetler, Ida Morse, Treva Patterson, Mary Welty Hart,
Shirley Keating, and Mary Walter for
contributing their valuable time and effort to this
project.2
1875
County
Plat Maps On Line: On 10 Oct 2007, plat maps
for 1875 were added to those already on line. Plat maps show the names of every Madison
County property owner at a given time. See them by selecting
"MAPS" under SITE LINKS on the left of this screen.20071010
Death
Record Index On Line: As of 26 June 2007, all of the Madison County
Death Record Index pages are on line.
Click on "Death Records Index" to the left.
Cemetery
List Update: Approximately 500 new listings have
been added to the Cemetery/Burial list, primarily from
the North McDonald and St. Patrick's Cemeteries. Also,
about 2000 corrections and/or additions to the data of
existing entries have been made.20061107
Obituary
Index: Although the obituary site has a search
capability, it often yields too many hits, especially
for common names like Smith and Jones. To resolve this
problem, we have generated and are maintaining an
alphabetical index of all Madison County obituaries that
are on the obits web site. Access the index by selecting
"Obituary Index" under Site Links on the left.
20061004
Project
Status:
Birth
Records Upgrade: Although we have birth
records on line from the beginning of the county through
1907, the list contains perhaps 25% of the actual number
of births during that period. Beyond a very incomplete
official list (all on-line), there is the 1885 and 1895
censuses and newspaper accounts to draw from.
Transcribing these records is very time consuming but it
has been started. The project is on-going.
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