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Welcome to Wayne County, Iowa GenWeb. My name is Ann Archer-Cogan and I'm the Wayne County coordinator.  I do not live in Wayne County, however, I do have family members that lived in Wayne County and I’ve gathered a variety of research materials over time.  My grandparents farmed in Sewal and then retired to Corydon.  I will do my best to make the Wayne County project of benefit to those who do research here.  If you have questions or wish to submit information or memorabilia for our website please email me by clicking on the email envelope below. 

This site is currently undergoing some reconstruction, so please be patient as I update and make changes to the various pages!

 

 


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Wayne County is the fifth county west of the Mississippi River and borders the Counties of Putnam to the southeast and Mercer to the south in Missouri, Decatur to the west, Lucas to the north, and Appanooseto the east. It is comprised of 336,000 acres and 525 sq. miles. It is rich in Historical value as the Mormons laid their trail through here in 1846, while making their way from Nauvoo, Illinois to the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad ran through here, gaining prosperity for its towns people, as well as the discovery of coal, which helped increase the population of the county as people began moving in. It contains the 16 townships of Warren, Jackson, Howard, Clinton, Medicine, Washington, Benton, Clay, Jefferson, Monroe, Corydon, Richman, Walnut, Grand River, South Fork and Union.


Email Addresses for Research Questions/Lookups
The Prairie Trails Museum
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Wayne County Boards
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Rootsweb and Ancestry.com have merged their message boards to give you more access to finding your ancestors quicker. You will find all the old information is still there for Wayne County, but all on one board.  If you wish, you may choose a category to narrow your search.  If you find a connection and would like to contact the submitter, click on the Print Message icon for the email address.  This board  promises to be a more thorough system and hopefully you will be able to find all your ancestors with a click or two.  This is still a FREE service, however, if you need to post a message or a reply you will need to set up a USERID and PASSWORD with Ancestry. com.   This should be instant and again there is no charge.   I think you will like the new boards and as always I wish you Good Luck in your searches.

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Wayne County Mailing List

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Welcome to the Wayne County, IA mailing list. A place to visit with others in the search of our ancestors from this county. Our goal is to help each other find those lost ancestors.  We ask that you only discuss genealogy. I do not live in Wayne County, but will help direct you to a source that may be of assistance to you in our county.  How to subscribe?  Just click on the IAWAYNE-request@rootsweb.com command above. In the body of your message type the word SUBSCRIBE only, nothing else. (Turn off your signature file). To UNSUBSCRIBEsend your message with only the word unsubscribe in the body, nothing else). To post to this list after you have subscribed, messages should be sent to IAWAYNE@rootsweb.com


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