O'Brien County Lookup Volunteers 


VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

We need volunteers who have access to census records, historical references, cemeteries, etc who can do lookups. Can you help?



If you have records or a short document that needs to be transcribed, Heather Feldman hfeldman2000@yahoo.com, has volunteered to help.

The following people have also volunteered to transcribe any records. They do not have access to any records but will transcribe from copies you send them:

Betty Franks - b.franks@mchsi.com
Heather Seifrig - seifrig.heather@principal.com
Cathy Delahoussaye - shockg549@aol.com


AVAILABLE HISTORICAL REFERENCES and RESEARCH VOLUNTEERS
 
TITLE (Description)

AUTHOR 

DATE 

RESEARCH VOLUNTEER
1924 Farmers Directory O'Brien County (Lists wife,children,owner,acres, years in county) Anderson Pub Co 1924 Dan Steffen, dsteffen@glis.net
Centennial And Quasquicentennial (125 yrs) Histories of Marcus, Iowa 1871-1996 (Marcus is in Cherokee Co but includes some O'Brien farm families) Centennial Committee 1971/1996 Dan Steffen, dsteffen@glis.net
Centennial History of Paullina, Iowa 1883-1983 (A history of Paullina and family biographies) Centennial Committee 1983 Joan Skilbred, fannin@mosquitonet.com
Linda Wines, wines@minn.net
Past and Present of O'Brien and Osceola Counties (A two volume history of the counties with biographies in the second volume) 

Check here before contacting a volunteer.

J.L.E. Peck and D.H.Montzheimer 1914 Jeff Wright, jwright3185@aol.com
Don Harrington, harrington2@earthlink.net
Lisa, sparrow1@aol.com
Biographical Data and Army Records of Old Soldiers who have lived in O'Brien County Schee, George (compiler) 1909 Lisa, sparrow1@aol.com
Mike, mshepard@cswnet.com Colleen, boose@redwing.net
History of O'Brien County (A history of the early days of O'Brien County and many of the pioneers) D.A.W. Perkins 1897 Nancy, wilsonna@sonic.net
Glennda Merry, Jmerryinaz@aol.com
Don Harrington, harrington2@earthlink.net
Lisa, sparrow1@aol.com
History of O'Brien County (An update of earlier histories including family biographies up through 1978) O'Brien County Historical Society 1979 Colleen, boose@redwing.net
Don Harrington, harrington2@earthlink.net
Siloam Lutheran Church (Paullina) records, 1888-1988.
Available - baptisms 1888-1935
Cidney Engberg, ENG110@aol.com
The First 100 Years, 1878-1978, Sanborn, Iowa (History of Sanborn and Family biographies) Centennial Committee 1978 Don Harrington, harrington2@earthlink.net
There are a couple O'Brien Co. history books in the Hartley library, also Hartley Sentinels on microfilm and census starting 1860. I can also look up cemetery listings. Can also do cemetery photos with digital camera. Janet Branson, jbranson@tcaexpress.net
I am with the Genealogy Division of the Italian-American Cultural Center. We have recently put all of the American Citizen Newspapers on CD. The holdings cover the years 1923 through 1972. We would be happy to provide look-ups. Susan DeFazio, Susan@Chandlermetelman.com
Italian-American Cultural Center of IA
Des Moines, IA 50309

alternate look-up volunteer:
Kathy Foggia, foggiak@prodigy.net

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