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This page is a list of books and pamphlets available to help in your family history reseach. Whenever possible, I have included open source links for these periodicals or the relevant contact information for the sources that are available online. Feel free to send information about your favorite sources to Susie Keller-McCain

1856 Mahaska Co. Iowa Census Index Keo-Mah Genealogical Society.

Mahaska County Iowa Cemeteries WPA Burial Records. Des Moines, Iowa: Iowa Genealogical Society, 1996. 5 vols. The Oskaloosa Public Library has burial lists for city and county cemeteries dating from the 1970s in its Genealogy Room.



Patterson, Patricia Pierce, The Making of Mahaska County, Iowa from the NEW PURCHASE of 1842. Keo-Mah Genealogical Society, Oskaloosa, IA: 1933. A collection of the earliest maps of the county and events leading to their creation.



Phillips, S. A. (1900) Proud Mahaska. -1900. Oskaloosa, Iowa, Herald print. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress



Union Historical Company, D. M. (1878)The history of Mahaska County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of its citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics. Des Moines, Union historical company, 1878. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress



Hedge, Manoah.Past and present of Mahaska County, Iowa: together with biographical sketches of many of its prominent and leading citizens and illustrious dead. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co, 1906. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress



Ramsey, Guy Reed. Postmarked Iowa: a list of discontinued and renamed post offices. (Crete, Nebraska: J-B Publishing, c1976). A copy is available at The Oskaloosa Public Library.



Mahaska County Cemetery Index F-W, The Oskaloosa Public Library, Genealogy Resource Room.



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