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Visitor Information: You are on the path to discovering ALL available Madison County
vital records directly related to genealogy -
births, marriages, deaths and burials. The one
exception, due to a concern for privacy, is that births and marriages
only older than 100 years
old are included, and are updated annually.
The
Site Menu to the left will lead you to an abundance
of genealogical records. The most popular
links are BIRTH RECORDS, CEMETERIES (over 30,200
burials), MARRIAGE RECORDS, and OBITUARY INDEX
(over 36,700 entries).
Also spend time in
CENSUS RECORDS for transcriptions of the Federal
Census from 1850 through 1930, the Iowa State
Census from 1849 through 1895 plus the
informative 1925 census, and don't miss the
extremely helpful Composite
Census Index there.
Then check out all the
other links in the menu and throughout this page
to round out your family’s Madison County
history.
Here
are two other helpful hints.
- Use
the yellow SEARCH THIS SITE box in the upper right to find references to a name,
surname, place, etc. located anywhere across this website.
- Click on MADISON COUNTY FAMILY TREE icon
in the upper left
where 98,300+ individuals
are grouped with their Madison County families.
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Daily
Updates: The County Coordinator, along
with several members of the Madison County Genealogical
Society, is working daily on obituaries, cemetery
records, marriage records, birth records, gravestone
photos, newspaper gleanings, the Madison County Family
Tree, and other research
pertaining to Madison County. If you visited this
website before and didn't find your relative's
information, we urge you to look each
time you visit here. In the period from Oct 2021 thru
Mar 2022, here is a sample of what has been added:
- Obituaries - 325 new/alternate,
both recent and those found from previous years.
- Births - 360 that took
place in Madison County in 1921.
- Cemetery burials
- Reflecting the most recent interments.
- Family Tree - Constant
growth with new leaves and whole branches
Below is detailed
information on additions between April 2021 and March 2022.
1950
Census Tools: To
take advantage of the April 1, 2022 release of the 1950
census, we have added National Archive maps of the
enumeration districts for the county and Winterset, our
county seat. Until searchable indexes have been
created, these
maps will help narrow your browsing. (Posted
01 Mar 2022)
Census
Migration Project: All
of the census transcriptions for Madison County have
been migrated to be resident on this website. For
details of this project, click here.
1921
Madison County Births: The complete set of
Madison County births for calendar year 1921, comprised
of 360 records, have
been posted to our birth pages as of April 10, 2021. To
see the list of 1921 births, click here.
To see them integrated with all births, select BIRTH
RECORDS on the left. (Posted
31 Mar 2022)
Random
Birth Records: As a part of routine
maintenance of the website as well as special projects,
we may run across Madison County births not found in the
official birth records that either haven't been included
or for which additional information has been uncovered. They may come from other
county's state census records, marriage records,
obituaries, death records,
Social Security Applications or Draft Registrations.
These random records or record changes are accumulated and posted to the
website every 6 months. Birth records accumulated in the
6 months ending 30 Sep 2021 have been integrated into
our Birth records and also posted here as a separate
list. (Posted 30 Sep
2021).
1920
Madison County Marriages: The complete set of
Madison County marriages for calendar year 1920, comprised
of 262 records, have
been posted to our MARRIAGE
RECORDS as of September 30, 2021.
To
see the list of 1920 marriages, click here.
To see them integrated with all marriages, select
MARRIAGE RECORDS on the left.
Winterset
News Obituaries:
Most of the older obituaries currently on line came from a
collection of clippings from the Winterset Madisonian
held by the Winterset Library. With the recent
availability of all Madison County newspapers on line,
we have initiated a project to glean the Winterset News
(1873-1945) of obituaries not found in the Madisonian as well as
obituaries with significantly new information. The
former are being posted as new obituaries and the latter
in our list of Recently Modified Obituaries. As of October
1, 2021, thirty-five years of The Winterset News
have been gleaned from 1886 thru 1903 and 1917 through
1933.
Modified
Obituaries: The posting of ”Alternate” obituaries (a new
obituary different from one already posted) has been
dropped in favor of immediately appending the new
obituary to the existing one and providing a link in a
list titled "Recently
Modified Obituaries". The combined
obituaries will also be available through the Obituaries
Index. Recently Modified Obituaries are accessible
through the “Obits” link on the right and will
remain on that list for one year. (Posted
31 Mar 2022)
Obituary
Photos: We were fortunate to receive a collection of obituary
photos from Ochiltree Funeral Home (now Caldwell
Parrish) in Winterset. We have completed appending photos to our
obituary postings for years 2005, 2006, and 2008 through
2013. (Posted 25
Feb 2022)
Gravestone
Photos: Nearly 30,200 gravestones in Madison County's
55 cemeteries have been photographed and posted at the Iowa Gravestones Project.
This is a continuous effort as there are new
burials, repaired gravestones, or stones placed on
existing graves. In the period 01 Oct 2021 to 31
Mar 2022, 65 gravestones have been
photographed (not bad for winter) and
posted with attention particularly given to Moon,
Hamblin, and St. Charles cemeteries. A list of
the new postings can be seen in
a separately compiled list
of new Gravestone Photo postings. (Update
31 Mar 2022)
Madison
County Family Tree: Our online tree holds
98,300+ individuals who have a direct
connection to Madison County (without ancestors and
descendants who do not). Continual updates are made from
various sources, such as additions to this website,
vital records encountered in our research, and incoming
obituaries. When first generated, the tree had few
sources. For the past five years, we have been entering
sources for all new entries and as we have occasion to
work with older entries, adding sources for them as
well. (Posted 01 Mar 2022)
Current
Contributors: Maintenance and
improvement of this website would be impossible without
the continued support of volunteer contributors.
- Special
thanks go to Pat Hochstetler and Shirley
Keating who have worked tirelessly
in transcribing new obituaries weekly along with older obituaries
as they are found.
- From Spring to Fall 2021, a
variety of local genealogists, led by Pat
Hochstetler, have volunteered
their time to walk cemeteries to gather data to add photos for the Iowa
Gravestones Project in Madison County. Pat
then updates both row-by-row and alphabetical
listings for each Madison County cemetery, which
are available at the Winterset Public Library.
- Kent Transier,
although retired from active County Coordinator
duties, continues to contribute to the website in
various ways that add additional information in
several categories or connect information within the
website.
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