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2021 Thank-you notes *Excellent website, I've put it in my
book mark list ...... Al, Des Moines (10/29/21) |
New content November & December 2021
| ALLAMAKEE ALBUMS - Family Albums &
Miscellaneous Photos from Allamakee county *Updated! Gavin family album: additional ID's of persons in family photos - from Mollie Meade (12/08/21 & 12/17/21) CEMETERY RECORDS *Woodmansee Alert & Notes were added for Gethsemane cemetery, surnames Amann, Devlin, Dunlevy, Kerndt & Serene - from Richard O'Brien & S. Ferrall (11/4/21) LOOK-UP VOLUNTEERS *Volunteer Jan Miller has changed her name to Jan Warren, email address remains the same MARRIAGE RECORDS - engagements, marriages, anniversaries & divorces *Added to compiled marriages: Hays-Hirth & Thomas-Battles, both 1883 - from S. Ferrall (12/17/21) MILITARY RECORDS *New content added to the Veteran's Memorial, photos of additional bricks were added. Surnames: Bakewell, Howe, Maloney, Rissman, Rogen & Sorum - photo contributed by Gerald A. Rogen OBITUARIES (13,310+ transcribed obits) *Thank-you to our November & December contributors: Joy Moore, Ken Wright, S. Ferrall & Reid Johnson SCHOOL RECORDS *New content added to New Albin school history & schoolchildren photos: 1908 photo postcard w/written correspondence & photo - from Audrey Berger (12/8/21) |
New content September & October 2021
| ALLAMAKEE ALBUMS - Family Albums &
Miscellaneous Photos from Allamakee county *Updated! Gavin family album: many additional ID's of persons in family photos - from Mollie Meade (10/29/21) *New! Shierholz Album, photos & transcribed Journal of Herman & Mattie (Shaw) Shierholz - from Darlene (Weiland/Markley) Johnson (10/3/21) CEMETERY RECORDS *Woodmansee Alert & Notes were added for Oak Hill cemetery, surname WAGNER - from Pam Collins (10/3/21) CHURCH RECORDS *New page for the Lansing Congregational church, includes misc. data - S. Ferrall (10/4/21) HISTORICAL ITEMS - Miscellaneous *Updated! Physician page, adding the 1906 Directory of Physicians & Surgeons - from S. Ferrall (10/27/21) *New database! Polks Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1918/1919, Allamakee co. data - from S. Ferrall (9/14/2021) LOCAL RESOURCE DIRECTORY *New content added to the Newspaper section of the resources - coordinator (9/23/21) MARRIAGE RECORDS - engagements, marriages, anniversaries & divorces *Added to compiled marriages: Ryder-Conway, 1865 - from S. Ferrall (10/27/21) *Added to compiled marriages: Clark-Tuell, Duncan-Woods, Joyce-Holden, Paulk-Conover, Sheff-Schroeder & Topliff-Beale, all for 1857 - from S. Ferrall (10/3/21) *Added to compiled marriages: Kohler-Maloney, 1936 - from Cindy Maust Smith (9/13/21) OBITUARIES (13,290+ transcribed obits) *Thank-you to our September & October contributors: David Hagemeier, 'LA', S. Ferrall & Cindy (Maust) Smith, Diane DuBay & volunteer Sherri QUERIES - add a new query or reply to one if you can help *Steve would like relationship assistance with Mays Prairie cemetery burials Fischer - Hirth. *Joan is asking for help with her Vincent Nanik family, (Harpers Ferry) research. *Angie is hoping someone has a picture of her grandmother Blanche Cole and/or her father Russell W. Sickels, Lansing. SCHOOL RECORDS *A photo of Postville High School ca1920s was contributed by Steven Bareis (9/4/21) *New content from a wide range of dates was added to many of the school pages, all are marked on the school index - from Cindy Maust Smith (throughout September) |
New content July & August 2021
| CEMETERY RECORDS & Gravestone Photo
Project (GPP) *Woodmansee Alert & Notes were added for Old East Paint Creek & East Paint Creek cemeteries, surname NARUM - from L. Reutgen & S. Ferrall (7/11/21) HISTORICAL ITEMS - Miscellaneous *Funeral procession photos (1915) have been ID'ed as the Masonic funeral of Judge C.T. Granger - from Hon. John Bauercamper (Ret.), (8/4/21) *New photos added to the Waukon Iron Mines page - from Jan Miller (8/4/21) *New content added to the Hall Maternity Hospital page - Hageman & Waters births, 1922; Dempsy, Edwards, Finnegan, Gallagher, Hermanson, McMorrow, McShane, Neuman & Sander births, 1923; Bahr, Byrnes, Collins, Cunningham, Danaher, Gleisner, Howes, Kaveny, Lenz, Lyons, Nichols, Norman, O'Maley, Quillin, Richter, Rumph, Welch, Whalen & Zoll births, 1924 and Beardmore birth, 1933 - from Connie Ellis & S. Ferrall (7/2/21) MILITARY RECORDS *Funeral procession photos (1915) have been ID'ed as the funeral of Judge C.T. Granger, a Civil War veteran - from Hon. John Bauercamper (Ret.), (8/4/21) NEWSPAPERS - transcriptions of newspaper articles, various years *Waukon School-bus Drivers Cited, 1955 -from Cindy Maust Smith OBITUARIES (13,275+ transcribed obits) *Thank-you to our July & August contributors: S. Ferrall, Henry E. Brainard & Ken Wright QUERIES - add a new query or reply to one if you can help *Kay is asking for help in discovering how Albert A. Moran, ended up in McIntire, Mitchell Co. IA. He was an orphan train rider. SCHOOL RECORDS *New content from a wide range of dates was added to many of the school pages, all are marked on the school index - from Cindy Maust Smith (thru-out July & August) |
New content May & June 2021
| BIOGRAPHIES - miscellaneous sources *Biography of Elizabeth Hendrickson - from S. Ferrall (6/21/21) *Biography of teacher Bess Goodykoontz +photo - compiled by Cindy Maust & S. Ferrall (5/25/2021) BIRTH
RECORDS |
New content January through April 2021
| ALLAMAKEE ALBUMS - Family Albums &
Miscellaneous Photos from Allamakee county *Boardman family album, added photos & other information for the George W. Boardman & Levi Boardman family - from Mollie Meade (February & April) *Gavin family album, replaced the photos on Thomas Gavin family Album with a restored versions; also added a news article & photo - from Mollie Meade (January & Feb 16) BIOGRAPHIES - miscellaneous sources *Biography of poet Madonna (Desmond) Spinner +photo - from Cindy Maust Smith (4/28/21) *Biography of school teacher Lillian (Powell) Stockton +photo - from S. Ferrall (1/26/21) BIRTH RECORDS *Allamakee County Births 1850-1930, compiled database; 617 "G" surnames, 1435 "H" surnames, 59 "I" surnames, 292 "J" surnames, 777 "K" surnames, 584 "L" surnames, 263 "N" surnames, 1556 "S" surnames & 413 "T" surnames were added - from Richard O'Brien (Jan-April). CEMETERY RECORDS & Gravestone Photo Project (GPP) *Woodmansee Alert & Notes were added for Dorchester Methodist & English Bench cemeteries - from Richard O'Brien & S. Ferrall (1/10/21) HISTORICAL ITEMS - Miscellaneous *Harpers Ferry People, added 2 news articles about melon farmer Luther Stepp AND a news article about Harpers Hotel proprietor Thomas Parrell - from Mollie Meade (3/30/21 & 4/12/21) *ID'ed, one of the 1920 New Albin city council members in the picture - from Mike Roberts (2/16/2021) *The Hall Maternity Hospital page - added 1935 McGeough birth - from Connie Ellis (2/16/21) *The Modern Woodmen of America (MWA) page, added New Albin Camp No. 3309 info. for 1922 - from S. Ferrall (1/6/21) MARRIAGE RECORDS - engagements, marriages, anniversaries & divorces *Anniversary records, added Lier 57th (1935) - from Cindy Maust Smith (4/3/21) *Added to compiled marriages: Caldwell-Mitchell (1896), Demmer-Roerkohl (1915), Helle-Vaage (1929), King-Kaeser (1935), Lenz-Pohlman (1930), Ranzenberger-Jahn (1920), Schiltz-Roerkohl (1909) & Yeoman-Coppersmith (1906) - volunteers MILITARY RECORDS The entries for Donus & Victor Houlihan were updated - from Connie Ellis (3/30/21) OBITUARIES (over 13,220+ transcribed obits) *Thank-you to our January, February, March & April contributors: Cindy (Maust) Smith, Connie Ellis, Dan Zoll, Mollie Meade, Henry E. Brainard, Joy Moore, Ken Wright & S. Ferrall PERSONAL WEBSITES - do you have a family genealogy website for your Allamakee co. ancestors? Share it on this page! *Darcy Fritche has updated the link to her personal website for Eitzen, MN area families, which includes some St. John's - Wheatland church records (3/28/21) QUERIES - add a new query or reply to one if you can help *Query from Sherry Harris who is researching Prudence & John W. Young. If you can help her please reply to her Query. (3/16/21) *Query from Lynden Baum who is attempting to confirm the burial place of his g-grandmother Bridget Stack. If you can help him please reply to his Query (1/31/21) RESOURCES - local & state-wide research resources Added to the 'Books for Sale' section is 'The Folks from Stokkset and Faraasen in Ringsaker. A Patchwork Chronicle', by Nancy L. Coleman, 2020. Immigrants to the US from Ringsaker in Hedmark, Norway ... a significant part of it deals with members of the Norwegian extended family that settled in Allamakee. (coordinator 1/26/21)) SCHOOL RECORDS *Additional information was added to many of the school pages, all marked on the school index- from Cindy Maust Smith (thru-out April - last updated 4/28/21) *New! County School Superintendents, Board of Education & other county-wide school officials 1936; and School news, odds & ends - from Cindy Maust Smith (3/30/21) *Additional information added to the following pages - Misc. Lansing school items, Waukon Jr. College, Waukon HS Class of 1936, Misc. Waukon HS items, Tid-bits & St. Patrick Parocial school - from Cindy Maust Smith (3/28/21 & 3/30/21) *Oil Springs / Spring Brook school, added a photo of the pupils & teacher, late 1940's - from Mollie Meade (1/10/21) SURNAME REGISTRY Susan Whalen has updated her email address for her research interest: WHALEN (2/24/21) |