Miscellaneous Information Links

Crawford County

• Crawford County Courthouse
  P.O. Box 546,
  Denison, IA 51442-2242
• Crawford County Church Addresses.
• Crawford County Library Addresses, Phone Numbers
• Microfilm List for Crawford County Records.
• Dow City Cemetery lookups
  Dow City Cemetery, P.O. Box 125,
  Dow City, Iowa. 51528
• Crawford County Genealogical Society.

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Lookup Volunteers

• Email Crawford County Genealogical Society
  Lookups from library sources: Centennial Books, Crawford County Histories, Denison Newspapers, etc., and courthouse records as time permits.
• Email Sheila Simpson
  September, 2003: I have a copy of the book, Biographical History of Crawford, Ida, and Sac Counties, Iowa , first published in 1893. I'd be happy to be a look up volunteer for this book.
• Email Holly Jimenez 2002:
  Genealogy lookups from centennial books for Deloit, Westside, Buck Grove, Manilla, and Aspinwall.
• Email Norm Prince
  April, 2003: Birth, marriage and death look up source in the county court house.
• Email Darleen Berens
  February, 2000: For lookups in the St Paul Lutheran Cemetery, in Charter Oak, Twp.
• Email Michael Buck
  July, 1999: I have the Vail Centennial and Vail, St Ann Parish Centennial books, I can do look ups in the Vail, Iowa area.

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Query Boards

• Rootsweb Message Board for Crawford County, Iowa, where you can read and post genealogical queries. This is our longest standing Query Board
• IAGenWeb Query Board for Crawford County, Iowa, where you can read and post your Crawford County genealogical queries.

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Other Place to Search

• You can also submit your queries to the Crawford County mailing list on RootsWeb.
• BROWSE the Crawford County mailing list archives.
• Search the Crawford County Rootsweb Board.
• Search threaded archive of the mailing list. This allows you to pick the month and year and shows a list of the messages.
• All of RootsWeb Search Engines. A one stop shopping center for searching RootsWeb and GenWeb sites.
• The main LDS (Mormon) genealogical search page for their extensive database including the International Geological Index and their Library of microfilmed records.

• > Search the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) at the LDS Family Search website. The Index contains a list of persons with a Social Security number who are deceased, and whose death was reported to the SSA. The Index gives information on birth and death dates and last residence if known by the SSA.Back to the top

  Crawford County Neighbors

  • Audubon
  • Carroll
  • Harrison
  • Ida
  • Monona
  • Sac
  • Shelby
  • Woodbury

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  Iowa

  • IAGenWeb Project.
  • Archives and Special Projects of the IAGenWeb Project that includes many databases.
  • The Iowa Heritage Digital Collection. An online digital repository of Iowa history from collections held by a wide range of organizations throughout Iowa.
  • Iowa State University County Histories Collection.
  • RootsWeb Iowa Resources. Lots of links.
  • Cyndi's List of Iowa Resources. A popular genealogy index site.
  • Vital Records Information for Iowa.
  • Another Iowa web site with good Iowa information.

  United States

  • USGenWeb Project.
  • National Archives and Records Administration Genealogy Research Page.
  • Military Records for all wars from the National Archives and Records Administration
  • Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System: National Park System site.
  • RootsWeb. A Regular Shopping Mall for Genealogical Resources!
  • Cyndi's List of USA Resources. Really Long List!
  • Copyright and Genealogy.

  Immigration Records

  • Castle Garden Immigration Arrival Records from 1830 through 1892 in New York. There were 10 million arrivals that one can search.
  • Ellis Island Immigration Passenger Arrival Records from 1892 to 1924. There were 22 million arrivals that one can search.

  Western Europe

  • Genealogy.net for German Genealogy in General.
  • Genealogy Work Group, Schleswig-Holstein. A site in German and English. Contains census transcriptions, emigrations and genealogies from their workgroups.
  • The Rootdigger in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. A researcher with data on people, history, archives, places, etc., in Schleswig-Holstein.
  • Fehmarn Island, Grossenbrode, and Heiligenhafen in Schleswig Holstein. A Genealogical web site for research. The four church parishes in the city of Burg and the villages of Bannesdorf, Landkirchen, and Petersdorf kept records back to the 1500's.
  • Mecklenburg, Germany, genealogy information. A site by Hans-Dietrich Gronau, who has Crawford County ties.
  • Sweden Genealogy Gate at Rootsweb.
  • Links to Norwegian genealogy research resources from the Norwegian-American Genealogy Center.
  • Genlias website Netherlands genealogy resources to research Dutch ancestors.

  The World

  • WorldGenWeb Project.
  • The main LDS (Mormon) genealogical search page for their extensive database including excellent "How to" documents in their Source Guide.
  • Yup! RootsWeb Again!
  • Cyndi's List. This Time a Really, Really Long List!
  • GenealogyLinks, A directory of genealogy research links categorized by country.

  Crawford County Name Lists

  • 1872-1914, Alumni and Ex-Students of Iowa State College, ...with notes from 1917. Found in the Iowa History, an IAGenWeb Special Project.
  • 1875, List of 180 Crawford County Patrons of Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa.
  • 1893, Genealogical data for 285 Crawford County families from Biographical History of Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties
  • 1899 - 1916 , Paradise Township Officers from the Township Clerk's Record Book.
  • 1908, Patrons of the 1908 Crawford County Atlas.
  • 1911, Genealogical data for 460 Crawford County families from History of Crawford County, Iowa, Vol. I.,
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