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In Memoriam:
Tom Hall
Husband and belovéd friend of
Constance McDaniel Hall,
Dallas County Coordinator
Anima eius per Dei misericordiam requiescant in pace.
Requiem æternam dona eius, Domine:
et lux perpetua luceat eius.
In memoria æterna erit iustus,
ab auditione mala non timebit.
Welcome to the IAGenWeb Project's Poweshiek County website. This site operates under the aegis of the USGenWeb Project and the IAGenWeb Project.
Don Wherry is the IAGenWeb Project's Coordinator for Poweshiek County, your host at this site. Marilyn Holmes is Assistant Coordinator, in particular charge of Message Board traffic. IAGenWeb county coordinators are researchers like yourself. In addition to being the nuts-and-bolts maintainers of county sites, we are also a help resource, in the manner of reference librarians. The assistance we can offer is limited, as we are not resident in Poweshiek County itself. Still, if you need help, please ask! If you can help, please offer!
This site is in the midst of a thorough reorganization at this time. Comments, critiques, requests and suggestions from site users are always welcome. They are particularly relevant right now.
E-mail Don, the Poweshiek county coordinator:
Mocavo
The Mocavo genealogy search engine has been publicly launched. It bills itself as "The Largest Free Genealogy & Family Tree Search Engine". It is not in any way related to or officially endorsed by the Iowa GenWeb Project or any element thereof, but... your County Coordinator has personally been very impressed with it.
It's hot, and it's free! Give it a try!
Most consulted Poweshiek County pages: Lookups ~ Resources
Poweshiek County genealogical message boards:
The Poweshiek County Message Boards are administered primarily by Assistant Coordinator Marilyn Holmes. To search within a message board, follow a link above to the desired board, and enter your search terms into the board's search engine.
Adjacent Counties
Human nature being what it is, our ancestors probably knew about as many people about as well as we do today. Population density being much less then, folks they recognized by face or name extended for miles. Ranchers and cowpokes on the high plains weren't the only people who'd ride 40 miles of bad trail in worse weather to attend a box-lunch social or a dance. Your Poweshiek County ancestors almost certainly had business and social ties across one or more of the county lines.
Visit the IAGenWeb Project's site for any of the adjacent counties by clicking your mouse on the county's name in the table below, or anywhere in the county on the map.
Map: p/o "New Township Map of Iowa",
from Family Atlas of the World
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1890
| North | ||||||
| Marshall | Tama | Benton | ||||
| West | Jasper | Poweshiek | Iowa | East | ||
| (Marion) | Mahaska | Keokuk | ||||
| South |
IAGenWeb Special Projects:
In addition to hosting and coordinating genealogical websites for each of the 99 Iowa counties, the IAGenWeb Project conducts a number of special projects of genealogical interest on a state-wide basis.
