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What's
New:
Daily
Updates: The County Coordinators, along
with several members of the Madison County Genealogical
Society are working daily on obituaries, cemetery
records, marriage records, birth records, headstone
photos, newspaper gleanings and other research
pertaining to Madison County. This results in what
amounts to daily updates of this website, too numerous
to list in a what's new format. If you visited this
website before and didn't find your relative's
information, we urge you to look again and to look each
time you visit here. For example, in the six months of
Apr 2011 to Sep 2011, 523 obits and 835 birth records were
posted. In addition, 426 marriage transcriptions between
Jun 1860 and Jul 1863 were reviewed and verified or
corrected. In the same period, several hundred cemetery
records were updated with additional information.
Census
Search: On 7 Nov 2011, we added a search
capability to our census
page so that you can search on a surname in all
censuses at once rather than opening individual files.
Webster
Methodist Church: On 11 Nov 2011, we
posted a history of the Webster
Methodist Church. It has many references to early
Madison County residents. Thanks go to Donna Crow for supplying
the Transcription.
Military
Pages: Pages listing Madison County Veterans
of World War
2, Korea and
Viet Nam were added in January
2011. Click on "Military Records" on
the left for access.
Births
Added: As of June 1, 2011, Madison County
births for 1909 & 1910 have been added to the Birth
List. Click "Birth Records" on the left to
access them.
1930
Census Data Posted:
We have started transcribing the 1930 Federal Census for
Madison County. Special thanks go to William Croft who
is heading up this project. Webster Township and the
Town of Macksburg have been completed and the Town of
Winterset is in transcription. Click on "Census
Records" to the left to access all Madison County
census records. (2011-03-26)
Obituary Team Crosses 26,000 Mark - Starting at about 850 obits
at the beginning of 2006, the obit team passed the
26,000 mark on 25 Aug 2011. Special thanks go to team
members Pat Hochstetler, Ida Morse, Mary Welty Hart,
and
Shirley Keating, for
contributing their valuable time and effort to this
project.
County
Officers: Was your ancestor an important
county officeholder? Checkout their name in the lists of
County
Officers posted 03 Dec 2010.
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 1200 weddings on line and we
are adding a few each week.
The Iowa Gravestones Project
includes 37,602
headstone photos for
Madison County cemeteries as of 10 Oct 2011.
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.
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