IAGenWeb Bremer County
2011
Note: I had surgery in mid-November and only returned home a few days before Christmas. That's why you haven't seen any new data recently. If you still don't see it in the next week or so, please submit it again. Thanks. Greta
New surnames:
Boveia, Myers, and Whiteside submitted by Rebecca Hansen (November)
The index for the Tripoli Leader obituaries is being updated to include
the years 1985 - 1989 (October)
In the past year (from November 1, 2010 until almost the end of October 2011 you all have posted 332 new obituaries.
John Schumacher finished two Bremer County cemeteries this summer. You can see the results of his work and that of others at the GPP web site:
New email address for Judy Swenson who is researching the surname Foster
More English translations of German obituaries (September)
New surnames: Bahlmann, Bremer, Hagedorn, Malzahn submitted by Linda Finley (August)
More English translations of some German obituaries for surnames beginning with B, C, D, G, K, M, O, P, R, S, W (July)
New email address for Tim Meyer researching surnames Beebe and Rosenthal
NOTE: A NEW edition of the Cemeteries Book will be available by the end of the year.
Horton-Plainfield Historical Club website - obituaries, histories, photos, schools, and more, all focused on the Horton - Plainfield area (March 13)
Butter makers of Bremer County (February 22)
Translations of three more German obituaries: Friedrich Schmadeke, Olinda Schmadeke, and Heinrich Barkhausen (thanks to the translator Randy Schmadeke)
Census Data
for the Bremer County Poor Farm: 1880 - 1895
----- 1900 - 1910 ----- 1915
- 1920 ----- 1925 - 1930 (February
3)
The
History of the Bremer County Poor Farm
New email
address for Ron Ferger researching the Ferger surname
New Surnames: Dilges,
Herbener, Herz, Hun(n)emuller, Kroplin; Funk, Geistfield
2010
St. John's Lutheran Church, Maxfield: new email address and new website ( November 19)
List of 1883 Pensioners on the Roll for Bremer County (November 11)
Bremer County Grave Registration Surnames as recorded by the Works Progress Administration in 1939-1940. (October 28)
The index for the Tripoli Leader obituaries has been updated to include the years 1971-1984 (September/October)
Additional German Obituaries have now been translated for many surnames beginning with B, D, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, R, S, T, W (August/September)
In Potpourri: 3 Old Waverly Photos; Mystery Photo; Waxy Panzer and the Ringling Brothers Circus
New Surnames:
Freeland, Head, Krieger, Ritchie, Lange
New surnames: Beal, Rosencrans or Rosenkrans, Scott, and Smalley
Updated email address
for Ernie Rimrodt researching Haase,
Rimrodt, Schwake, and Thurkow.
New email address for Debbie
McCarrell researching Bade, Barling, Garling, Goetz, Mueller, Pries, and
Roloff.
Military Records: The Virtual Wall at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Casualties in the Vietnam War organized by state)
Transcriptions of over 500 biographies in the 1914 History of Bremer County completed (Biographies Message Board) between November 2009 and January 2010 - thanks to the Bremer County Genealogical Society!
2009
The index for the Tripoli Leader obituaries has been updated to include the years 1907-1908, 1920, 1926-1928, 1958-1970 (December)
Thanks to John Schumacher who added many photos of St. John's Lutheran Church (Sumner) to the Gravestone Photo Project in November!
The Bremer County Genealogical Society has begun transcribing the biographies in the 1914 History of Bremer County. You'll find them on the Biographies Board. (November)
Links to
Harlington Cemetery Burials
and Veterans
Burials, both through 11 March 2009 (November)
Thanks to Don Woodley for
alerting me to these records.
Added website for First Baptist Church, Sumner http://www.FBCSumner.com (September)
Updated identification of German obituaries that have been translated into English (August)
Index to the obituaries in the Tripoli Leader completed (July and August)
German Obituaries: N - Z surnames added (July) - now complete
Links to libraries: Iowa, states, presidential, national, and law on Research Helps page (May)
Potpourri: Hardships of Pioneer Life; KKK in Bremer County; Old Soldiers' Graves; Teaching German in Maxfield Township, Martin Thomas, the county's first black person
German obituaries: G - M surnames added (April)
Surnames: Buhr, Tegtmeier submitted by Nancie Smith-Dobyns | Cook, Thompson, Hall submitted by Claudia Groh (March) | Leyh submitted by Heidi L. Leyh (July)
2008
Index to German Obituaries (in progress)
Index to the obituaries in the Tripoli Leader for 1940-1941, 1943-1944, 1946-1948 (October)
Thanks to Thom Prue for correction and information about marriage of his great-grandparents Nelson Prue and Anna Barrois (September); addition of Prue to Surnames (December)
Thanks to Donald Purfeerst for alerting me to the broken links in the 1875 Atlas pages. They should all be fixed now. (July)
Bremer County Churches: added names of pastors (June)
Family Histories: Ladwig family website added, along with an updated email address for Barbara Ladwig Wright (June)
1913 Postcard of St. Paul's Lutheran Church on Potpourri submitted by Emily Jordan (June)
Update to Death Records: Sue Clavin found Julia Boehmler's maiden name in the new Marriage Records and sent it in (May)
Marriage Records [Grooms' Surnames J - Z] contributed by Ernie Braida (May)
Marriage Records [Grooms' Surnames A - I] contributed by Ernie Braida (April)
Family Histories: Durnan Family (April)
Coburn Family Bible updated and reformatted (April)