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What's
New:
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
Birth
Records Updated: In August 2008,
we started adding birth records from the Madison County
official records and we are systematically extracting
births from the 1885 and '95 censuses. So far, about
8700 records have been added. This project along with gleanings
from the newspapers continues. As of 25 Jun 2009, we have posted
about 16,500 birth records with another 1200 in process.
Postings are being done alphabetically from the end of
the alphabet forward. Currently, letters "E"
plus "I" through "Z" have been
completed.
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 Team Crosses 22,000 Mark - Starting at about 850 obits
at the beginning of 2006, the obit team passed the
22,000 mark in November 2008. Special thanks go to team
members Linda Brittain, Pat Hochstetler, Ida Morse, Treva Patterson, Mary Welty Hart,
Shirley Keating, and Mary Walter for
contributing their valuable time and effort to this
project.2
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. Access the index by selecting
"Obituary Index" under Site Links on the left.
20061004
Project
Status:
Birth
Records Upgrade: Although we have birth
records on line from the beginning of the county through
1908, the list contains perhaps 25% of the actual number
of births during that period. Beyond a very incomplete
official list (all on-line), there is the 1885 and 1895
censuses and newspaper accounts to draw from.
Transcribing these records is very time consuming but it
has been started. The project is on-going.
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