GENEALOGICAL SURVEY

 

 

 

I. Personal family records

 

A. Your house

documents, certificates, bibles, diaries, scrapbooks, clippings, photos, letters

 

B. Your knowledge

oral histories and traditions

 

 

 

II. Family records and genealogies

 

A. Printed genealogies

at local libraries, our library, state libraries, Library of Congress - www.loc.gov/ ; google surname

 

B. Computer records

www.Ancestry.com/ [available at our library]

 

 

www.Genealogy.com/

 

 

www.familysearch.org/

 

 

www.usgenweb.org/ has a websites for 3700 counties of US

 

 

Page County genweb site - www.iagenweb.org/page/

 

 

Taylor County genweb site - www.iagenweb.org/taylor/

 

 

Nodaway County, Missouri site - www.mogenweb.org/nodaway/

 

 

 

GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH

 

 

 

I.

County Records

 

 

Birth records

courthouses

 

 

Iowa [1880 - 1935] - www.familysearch.org

 

 

Missouri - www.sos.mo.gov/archives/

 

 

Illinois - www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/

 

 

 

 

Marriages / divorces

courthouses

 

 

Iowa [1880 - 1935] - www.familysearch.org

 

 

Missouri - www.Ancestry.com [at our library]

 

 

Illinois - www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/

 

 

 

 

Deaths/probates

courthouses

 

 

Iowa [1880 - 1935] - www.familysearch.org

 

 

Iowa - www.deathindexes.com/iowa/index.html

 

 

Missouri - www.sos.mo.gov/archives/

 

 

Illinois - www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/

 

 

 

 

Land

courthouse

 

 

land patents - National Archives - www.glorecords.blm.gov/reference/default.aspx

 

 

 

 

Misc.

at courthouse - citizenship, naturalization, adoption, orphan court

 

 

 

II.

Libraries

 

 

Local histories, atlas', directories, phone book

local library, our library, state libraries, Mid-Continent Regional; many county histories online at Library of Congress - www.loc.gov/

III.

Newspapers

many online

 

 

Taylor County: http://taylorcounty.newspaperarchive.com - username is taylorcounty and password is archive

 

 

Page County: http://clarinda.advantage-preservation.com/

 

 

Adams County: http://adamscountyia.newspaperarchive.com/ - and create a free account

 

 

 

IV.

Church records

churches, local libraries, central depositories for denominations

 

 

 

V.

Cemetery records

US: www.usgenweb.org/ for county sites

 

 

Iowa: www.iowagravestones.org/

 

 

US: www.findagrave.com

 

 

 

VI.

Census records

federal records of population & mortality schedules on www.familysearch.org

 

 

www.Ancestry.com [at our library]

 

 

 

VII.

Military records

muster, bounty land, pension, government cemeteries on National Archives: www.archives.gov/

 

 

Google for military units

 

 

 

VIII.

Emigration/Immigration

National Archives - www.archives.gov/

 

 

www.Ancestry.com [at our library]