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What's
New:
Birth
Records Update Completed: In August 2008,
we started adding birth records from the Madison County
official records and systematically extracting
births from the 1885 and '95 censuses. . This project
was completed on 09 Nov 2009, with 18,554 birth records
on line, an increase of over 10,000 records. Gleanings
from Madison County newspapers and from censuses of
adjacent counties will continue as sources become
available.
St.
Charles High School Graduates: On 12 Nov 2009,
we added a compilation of St. Charles High School
graduates from 1893 to 1947. Click on
"Schools" in the Site Links on the left to
access this data.
Funeral
Home Cards: On 02 Oct 2009, we posted
information on 205 more funeral cards, bringing the
total on line to 1046. The new entries are highlighted
in blue so you can easily find them. Click on this
paragraph's heading to go to the funeral card index.
Obituary Team Crosses 23,000 Mark - Starting at about 850 obits
at the beginning of 2006, the obit team passed the
23,000 mark on 22 September 2009. Special thanks go to team
members Linda Brittain, Pat Hochstetler, Ida Morse, Treva Patterson, Mary Welty Hart,
and
Shirley Keating, for
contributing their valuable time and effort to this
project.2
Business
Directories: The County
Coordinators have
processed and posted data from two early Madison County
Business Directories. They date around 1875 and include
information on citizen's nativity as well as when they
came to Madison County. You can access the data by
clicking on the title of this paragraph or through
"Business Directories" on the left.03
Jun 2009
Comments
on the Deceased: Some time ago, the County
Coordinators received a document entitled "A Record
of Death of Prominent Citizens in and Around Winterset",
author unknown. The document contains comments by the
author on the lives and deaths of prominent Madison
County citizens who died between 1900 and 1913. Most of
them are one-liners and some of them are not flattering
but all of them are interesting from a historical
perspective. The document has been posted and can be
viewed by clicking on the title of this paragraph.
09 Apr 2009
Weddings
On-Line: At about the beginning of
March, 2008, we started adding newspaper extracts of
Madison County weddings to our marriage records. Click
on the marriage date to see the wedding description.
Currently, there are about 960 weddings on line and we
are adding a few each week.
The Iowa Gravestones Project
includes 35,911 headstone photos for
Madison County cemeteries as of 01 Jun 2009.
This project is now complete except that it is on-going
for new burials and will be updated anytime that
previously lost/buried gravestones are discovered.
Obituary
Index: Although the obituary site has a search
capability, it often yields too many hits, especially
for common names like Smith and Jones. To resolve this
problem, we have generated and are maintaining an
alphabetical index of all Madison County obituaries that
are on the obits web site. The index is updated at least
weekly to keep up with the steady stream of new obit
postings. Access the index by selecting
"Obituary Index" under Site Links on the left.26
Sep 2009
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