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 Decorah Republican Newspapers 

this page was last updated on Thursday, 01 April 2021

Stacey Gossling, a board member of the Winneshiek County Historical Society, was at the Luther College library using their microfilm reader and scanner to develop old negatives. When she started having a problem with turning the negatives into an actual photo she asked for some help. That's when Ryan Gjerde, came over to help her. Ryan is the Luther College, Library Director and Digital Initiatives Librarian. They started to chat about how nice it would be if the newspapers were on line. That way anyone in the world can do research about Winneshiek County, starting back in the 1860's. Stacey and Ryan felt there was a need to have these papers available on line. So, Luther College and the Winneshiek County Historical Society collaborated on making it happen. Genealogy has become a passion of so many people. But, if your family was in Winneshiek County there was nothing available on line to do research. And a lot of people don't have the time or funding to travel here to sit at a microfilm reader for hours on end. Part of the fun of doing genealogy is the hunt for information. Not everyone wants to hire someone to do the work for them. They want to do it themselves.

Ryan and Stacey set out to make this project come true. They received a grant from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs to digitize the Decorah and Calmar newspapers. Once the funding was was in place they spoke with Advantage Preservation to do the work. In 2018, the site was on line and running. They are hoping to add to the collection the Ossian newspapers, when funding becomes available.

The Winneshiek IAGenWeb coordinator intends to keep expanding these pages as rapidly as possible. Currently 2 people are working on the project. They are spending 50% of their time on this project and 50% on a similar project in Howard County. As of Feb. 1, 2020 information about over 3,800 events has been extracted with an estimated 25,000 events awaiting extraction and information about over 2,700 events has been transcribed with over 1,100 extracted events awaiting transcription. if you would like to volunteer to help with this project, please contact your county coordinator.

Partial list of 1860 - 1861 Subscribers
Partial list of 1894 Subscribers

Scroll to the desired year and use local navigation to view the desired Decorah Republican page.
Scroll to the desired year to view the posted information.

Index of 211 1889 Events waiting for a volunteer to transcribe
Index of 257 1890 Events with Linked Extracted Scans waiting for a volunteer to transcribe.
Index of 273 1891 Events with Linked Extracted Scans waiting for a volunteer to transcribe.
No Digitized images in 1892
Index of 178 1893 Events with Linked Extracted Scans, Transcriptions underway.
Index of 403 1894 Events with Extracted Scans waiting for a volunteer to transcribe.
Transcription of 404 1895 Events that includes 16 Anniversaries, 18 Births, 95 Marriages and 275 Deaths.
Transcription of 435 1896 Events that includes 11 Anniversaries, 55 Births, 98 Marriages and 231 Deaths.
Transcription of 502 1897 Events that includes 10 Anniversaries, 57 Births, 101 Marriages and 319 Deaths.
Transcription of 469 1898 Events that includes 14 Anniversaries, 45 Births, 85 Marriages and 316 Deaths.
Transcription of 581 1899 Events that includes 20 Anniversaries, 46 Births, 114 Marriages and 387 Deaths.
Transcription of 519 1900 Events that includes 23 Anniversaries, 75 Births, 99 Marriages and 308 Deaths.
Transcription of 544 1901 Events that includes 21 Anniversaries, 77 Births, 107 Marriages and 319 Deaths.
Transcription of 688 1902 Events that includes 13 Anniversaries, 109 Births, 150 Marriages and 403 Deaths.
Transcription of 655 1903 Events that includes 16 Anniversaries, 122 Births, 154 Marriages and 343 Deaths.
Transcription of 682 1904 Events that includes 19 Anniversaries, 130 Births, 121 Marriages and 387 Deaths.
Transcription of 660 1905 Events that includes 17 Anniversaries, 130 Births, 143 Marriages and 359 Deaths.

Scroll to the desired year and use local navigation to view the desired Decorah Republican page.

Please, contact the County Coordinator to submit additions or corrections.

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this page was last updated on Thursday, 01 April 2021