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Sioux County, Iowa

"What Is New" Detailed Link

Click this link: "New" book available, Siouxland: A History of Sioux County, IA

Box below indicates the "update" dates since June 2008:

Military

Births

07/15/08

Marriages

Deaths

07/17/08

WPA Sioux Co.

History

History Books

Census

County Records

Photos

Officials

Sx Co. Historical Soc.

Surnames

07/02/08

Town Fact Sheets

Newspapers

Resources

1908 Atlas

Family Links

GSCGS

Schools

08/06/08

Your assistance is welcome to put research data on this website.
Email me, your Sioux County Coordinator, if you have data to share. Ancestor pics are welcome; email in jpg format.

I don't live in Sioux County, so I am unable to respond to research questions. Please use the Queries box to post questions.

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The Greater Sioux County Genealogy Society has provided the majority of information for this site. Thanks to them and all the individuals who have submitted data!

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Sioux County WPA records

IA GenWeb WPA Special Project: A visitor can search one county at a time or they can plug in a surname and search the entire state database at once, over 1/2 million names presently. It also has soundex search ability and we've also added a very popular and useful "Post-em Note" feature which allows visitors to add to or correct the existing data and also to make themselves known to yet to be discovered cousins. Thanks to the "post-ems" it will continuously be growing with new info.

Click on the Gravestone Photo Project logo to the left. Sioux County has 30,284 grave photos posted. You might find your ancestor's gravemarker. If you have grave photos, consider submitting them here.

Atlases & Maps

Bits of Odd Tales

Census Indexes & Transcriptions

History Books

Iowa Old Press Iowa GenWeb Special Project

Surname & Family LINKS - below

Pioneer Memoirs written by Adolph Witt in 1934

Links to Sioux County Families
A compiled listing of data with direct links to Sioux County

Links to biographies that include Sioux Co. families on other websites

"Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States" Book online includes some Sioux County references.

Other Links

Iowa Penny Post Cards - Sioux Co.
This is a USGenWeb Archives site
IAGenWeb Special Projects
Newly formed Luxembourg Heritage Society of NW Iowa
The LDS site has a lot of information.
GenLias a great resource in the State Archives of the Netherlands.
(click on "English" for the English version)
Tresoar, the Frisian Literary and Historical Centre: http://www.tresoar.nl.
(Friesland is the most northern province of the Netherlands). At our site you can search all the Frisian genealogic information. Soon the site will also be in English, but for now you can find your information following the links “Collectie” > “Genealogie”.
WorldGenWeb Project
Rootsweb search engine
Go to www.erfskipterpdoarpen.nl and find the whole story, in English, of Fresian emigration to the U.S.

Marriages Military
Newspaper Articles
Photos
Resources
Sioux County Historical Society Sioux County -- Calliope Village
Sioux County Histories
Sioux County Inventors
1883-1939
Sioux County Officials
1904-1928
Sioux County Records
Sioux County Schools
Surnames
Town Fact Sheets
View or Post to: Post Queries Outside link to Sioux County Message Boards & Mailing list
Surrounding Counties
Lyon County, Iowa Plymouth County, Iowa O'Brien, County, Iowa Union County, South Dakota Lincoln County, South Dakota

Sioux County--Heritage Photo

Our Ancestors & Their Stories

EMF automobile

Sioux County 1911 License

Back seat is the family of Marie Fredericks Ruisch. Marie is the far right. Small child in the back is Frances Ruisch, who died at a very young age. Driving is Gerrit Ruisch. Robert Ruisch (my Dad) is on his lap. Mildred Ruisch Beltman and Edward Ruisch are on the running board. Submitted by Barbara Hessel

Feel free to submit any ancestral photo for consideration here. Please email photos in jpg format. Thanks for your submissions. Linda Ziemann, Sioux CC

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