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This site and its content are here for your researching pleasure. Your assistance is needed. Please email me with your county info and/or pictures. Thanks for your contribution! Linda Ziemann, County Coordinator (See the Look-Up button below for research help.)

 

 

Monona County Volunteer Roll of Honor

Don't miss the above page link dedicated to all the county submitters. HUGE THANKS!

Researcher Comments

"I, so appreciate this website--great work!" ~DB (June 2011)

"Thank you for doing such a thorough job on the Monona County GENWEB page." ~ER (Dec 2011)

 


 

MONONA COUNTY
Created in 1851 and organized in 1854
Parent County:
Pottawattamie and unorganized (Dallas/Mahaska/ Monroe/Polk)
County Seat: Onawa

~Browse the history links below:

1865 Iowa State Gazetteer

Monona County Courthouse



IAGenWeb Special Project site links: Click on the linked logos to view data.

 

Click on the Gravestone Photo Project logo above. Monona County has 2,857 grave photos posted. You might find your ancestor's gravemarker. If you have grave photos, consider submitting them here.

Click here to view the transcribed county cemetery Surname Indexes.

 

ON-SITE RESOURCES-

Cemeteries

County Church History Index

County History News Snippets **Accounts from local newspapers

Deaths 1880 - 1900, A to D only

Early Monona County Directory - 1867

Early Monona Co. Board of Supervisors 1864

Early Monona County Officials

Iowa State 1854 Census

Iowa State 1895 Census

Marriages 1856-1880

***Seeking Wedding Photos and/or Marriage license scanned images--Accepting jpg images for early Monona Co. marriages up to and including 1940.**

Marriage License Certificates

Military -- Civil War Veteran Index *Need your help*

Monona County Honored Men & Women

Monona County Mailing List

Monona County Museums

Mystery Photo Gallery -- *Help ID County Photos*

Photo Gallery
(includes some School Photos) --- Baby Photos

Query Archives--Includes Surnames

Resource Directory

Schools of Monona County

Surnames & Researcher Names

Towns & Townships ***Check out the Photo Documentary Old Buildings project at this link. Please share if you can. Thanks so much!

Volunteer Look-ups


OFF-SITE RESOURCES

History of Monona County Iowa 1890

History Of Western Iowa: Its Settlement And Growth--Monona Co.
 
US GenWeb Iowa Archives

Family History Center

Iowa-L Mailing List

Newly formed Luxembourg Heritage Society of NW Iowa

 

 

 





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Feel free to post & share any obits, docs or bios. You can also share pictures to post with these items. After you submit your item, send to me the JPG image in an email. I will do the rest by entering the picture onto the appropriate submitted item. Email the county coordinator, Linda Ziemann

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NEIGHBORING COUNTIES

Woodbury County, Iowa

Crawford County, Iowa

Harrison County, Iowa

Burt County, Nebraska

Thurston County, Nebraska


 

 

 




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