What Is New

...on Sioux County IA GenWeb since the Spring 2008 Review

***NEW in the month of April 2008---Sioux County IA GenWeb site has been moved in its entirety to a new server. I want to thank rootsweb for so many wonderful years of web hosting. Rootsweb provided webspace and support in the early, critical years of getting started. Now in 2008, IA GenWeb has matured and can fly on its own! Please be sure and book mark the new Sioux County url which is now housed on the IA GenWeb server! Here is the new link: http://www.iagenweb.org/sioux/

***Also in April many additional SURNAMES have been added to the surname data base, A-Z. The Greater Sioux County Genealogy Society has all these names in their files at the Sioux Center library.

***NEW in June 2008

***Two St. Mary's Academy, Alton, IA., photos were added by submitted and fomer student, Duane A. Biever. Thanks, Duane, for your patience as I got them posted. And thanks for sharing with all of us!!

***NEW in July 2008

***1896-1898 Births from The deVolksvriend newspaper is now uploaded and posted. There are 610 entries with four columns of information. Thanks to Wilma for getting this list ready for all of us. And "Double Thanks" to Gert Jansen of Sioux County for translating the text from Dutch to English!!!

***1899-1901 Births from The deVolksvriend newspaper now added, as well. There are over 600 names/entries for these years, too. Wow...two excellent data bases of BIRTH information as recorded in the local newspapers!

***1896-1898 Deaths from The deVolksvriend newspaper now posted. Translated by Gert Jansen of the Greater Sioux County Genealogical Society.  Typed and presented by Wilma J. Vande Berg of the GSCGS.