What's New...
What's New...
--Mar. 2008; NEW.....the third week of March the Plymouth County website was moved in its entirety from the Rootsweb server to the IA GenWeb server. I want to say a HUGE THANKYOU to Rootsweb for providing the free webspace and great support through the years. IA GenWeb is now able to supply the server space. Thanks to a generous organization called "The Friends of IA GenWeb." Visit their home web page for more details.
May 2008 "NEW" Posted a new page for St. Michael's Catholic Church, Kingsley, Iowa. Check out the history found. If you have photos, please feel free to submit to this county coordinator in jpg format for display on this page. Thanks, Linda Ziemann "NEW" "NEW" 76 additional OBITS have been posted during the month of May to the OBITS board. Thanks to all who have shared in this effort! "NEW" Check out the month of May 2008 additions to the Country School history pages for Plymouth County. Jun 2008 "NEW" Added two old news articles on the Co. K military page--articles dated 03 Jun 1919 "NEW" Another wedding photo was posted for the early bride/groom, Joe Deitermann & Norie Kirpes. "NEW" Two photos of the G.A.R. tombstone markers in the LeMars Memorial Cemetery are now posted by contributor, Linda Ziemann, who took the photos this Memorial Day 2008. "NEW" Three more surnames have been added to the Reunion/Events pages: Stoffel, Lammers, and Matthews. "NEW" Two more years of photos were added to the Avenue of Flags index: 1989 and 1992. Thanks to Vernon C. Ewin for taking the photos and sharing them with all of us! "NEW" Men of Co. K at Camp Faber in LeMars--Temporary encampment after Federal call-up "NEW" MORE Funeral Card images are now posted: VanHoff, Tony; Herzig, Albert; Bennett, Ruth; Janes, Roy, Reeves, Viola "Babe," Kennedy, Mabel & Lucile March. "NEW" Militarily Speaking--added another news article page for the Great War, LeMars Sentinel news article, February 14, 1919 "NEW" Westfield Cemetery gave stone transcription was done in June 2008 by Mary Holub, new assist. Plym. County coordinator. Mary also took photos of each stone and posted them to the Grave Photo Project. Be sure and check out the GPP Index link. Thanks, Mary, for an excellent job "well done!" "NEW" Check out the month of June 2008 additions to the Country School history pages for Plymouth County. "NEW" In June 198 additional obituaries were posted to the OBITS board. Jul 2008 "NEW" Added another LANCASTER reunion newspaper article from the year 1967 "NEW" Mary Holub in LeMars is working on the LeMars Memorial Cemetery transcription project~Summer 2008. She is doing a fantastic job! She is transcribing each block in the cemetery--one at a time. We will be posting on this website an alphabetical list from each block as it is completed. To date, the military G.A.R. Block 13 is completed and posted. This includes posted obituaries linked to the deceased name. Also photos of the tombstone have been added to the LeMars Memorial Cemetery pages on the Plymouth Co. GPP site. "NEW" Read the new page about the burial stone marker of Mittie Smith, July 1888. Photos of the stone were taken by Mary Holub during her research of Memorial Cemetery. The story is awesome! Thanks, Mary! "NEW" Completed and Uploaded on July 17th--LeMars Memorial Cemetery (aka LeMars City Cemetery) Block 1 now indexed alphabetically. ***Block 2 is also indexed and uploaded. Don't forget you can see photos of the tombstones on our Grave Photo Project (GPP) site pages! Keep up the good work, Mary Holub!!
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Memorial Day AVENUE OF FLAGS ceremonies--pictures, history, memories!! Numerous year photos have been shared--check out the