Reference Links

Here are additional websites to aid in your Calhoun County research.

State Libraries and Societies

• Iowa Genealogical Society Library
• Iowa Heritage Digital Collections
• State Historical Society of Iowa
• State Library of Iowa
• University of Iowa Digital Library: Includes plat maps, atlases, civil war diaries, and more in the Iowa History section

Out of State Genealogical Websites

• Social Security Death Index, 1962 - February 2014

• Iowa Schools - High School Graduates for Iowa schools

• Find a Grave - Cemetery gravestone photos in cemeteries throughout the United States

• Digial Library of Books - Including nationwide county histories online

• Veteran Grave Locator - Veteran burials in National Cemeteries

• Ellis Island Immigrants - Immigrants from 1820 - 1957

• Tombstone Birthday Calculator - when gravestones only have death dates (& age in years, months, days) to calculate birthdates

• Weekly Calculator - find the day of the week for any year - good when an obituary says they died "a week ago last Tuesday"