Iowa Genealogy – Records and Links. This state page of our website provides direct links to major databases and historical titles and information found on Iowa Genealogy, whether they exist on our site, or across the web.
Iowa Atlases, Gazetteers, Maps, Plat Books, and Farm Directories
Huebinger’s Map and Guides
The Huebinger series of automotive publications were popular a century ago as adventurous motorists braved the primitive roads and uncertain terrain of Iowa and beyond. Noted landmarks on these road-maps include schools, houses, churches, piles of stumps, unusual rocks, cemeteries, and windmills. Today, these map collections are actually history books showing how towns and cities have developed, roads have changed, and some communities have disappeared.
- 1912 Huebinger’s map and guide for Blue Grass Road: Council Bluffs, Burlington Ft. Madison, Muscatine
- 1912 Huebinger’s map and guide for Des Moines, Ft. Dodge, Spirit Lake and Sioux Falls Highway: combining the Des Moines, Ft. Dodge and Spirit Lake Highway and the Sioux Falls, Spirit Lake official highway
- 1912 Huebinger’s map and guide for Hawkeye Highway: Sioux City to Dubuque
- 1912 Huebinger’s map and guide for North Iowa Pike: Sioux Falls, S.D. to McGregor, Iowa
- 1912 Huebinger’s map and guide for Panora Speedway
- 1912 Huebinger’s map and guide for Iowa official trans-continental route: Iowa division of the national highway New York – San Francisco
- 1912 Huebinger’s map and guide for Waubonsie Trail: Iowa and Nebraska division of the Waubonsie system
Sate of Iowa
- 1875 Illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa
- 1915 Map of Iowa, issued by the Board of Railroad Commissioners
- 1904 Atlas of the state of Iowa
Iowa Biographies
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Story County, IowaThe full manuscript contains a condensed history of the state of Iowa, a number of biographies of distinguished citizens of the state of Iowa, a descriptive history of Story county and 229 selected biographical sketches of the citizens of Story County, Iowa.
Ida County, Iowa Genealogy
Biographies specific to Ida County that were extracted from numerous sources.
Iowa Cemetery Records
Iowa Census Records
Iowa Directories
- State Wide Barber License Beginning – Apr 1929
- Cedar Rapids City Iowa Directories
1876, 1877, 1880, 1881, 1883-6, 1888, 1890, 1892, 1893, 1895, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1906-14, 1916-20, 1922-26, 1928, 1929, 1931-39, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1956-60, 1962-91, 1993-98 - Cedar Rapids City Iowa Phone Books
1924-1937, 1939-1946, 1949, 1951-1954, 1956-1960, 1963, 1964, 1967-1971, 1973-1975, 1977-1981, 1983-1993.
Iowa Genealogy Websites
United States Genealogy
United States GenWeb Project
Adair, Clay, Hancock, Madison, Sac, Adams, Clayton, Hardin, Mahaska, Scott, Allamakee, Clinton, Harrison, Marion, Shelby, Appanoose, Crawford, Henry, Marshall, Sioux, Audubon, Dallas, Howard, Mills, Story, Benton, Davis, Humboldt, Mitchell, Tama, Black Hawk, Decatur, Ida, Monona, Taylor, Boone, Delaware, Iowa, Monroe, Union, Bremer, Des Moines, Jackson, Montgomery, Van Buren, Buchanan, Dickinson, Jasper, Muscatine, Wapello, Buena Vista, Dubuque, Jefferson, O’Brien, Warren, Butler, Emmet, Johnson, Osceola, Washington, Calhoun, Fayette, Jones, Page, Wayne, Carroll, Floyd, Keokuk, Palo Alto, Webster, Cass, Franklin, Kossuth, Plymouth, Winnebago, Cedar, Fremont, Lee, Pocahontas, Winneshiek, Cerro Gordo, Greene, Linn, Polk, Woodbury, Cherokee, Grundy, Louisa, Pottawattamie, Worth, Chickasaw, Guthrie, Lucas, Poweshiek, Wright, Clarke, Hamilton, Lyon, Ringgold, UNKNOWN
American History and Genealogy Project
Buena Vista, Calhoun, Delaware, Harrison, Linn, Monona, Monroe, Pocahontas, Sac, Wayne, Woodbury
Iowa History
- IGS Certificates (Pioneer, Statehood & Century)
- Annals of Iowa (1863-2014)
A quarterly, peer-reviewed journal of history published by the State Historical Society of Iowa. - Irving Weber’s Iowa City History Articles
In January 1973, at the age of 72, Irving Weber (1900-1997) began writing articles on local history for the Iowa City Press-Citizen. Over the next 25 years the paper published 850 of his weekly columns. Half of the columns were reprinted in eight volumes titled Irving Weber’s Iowa City. This digital collection provides the complete set of Weber’s newspaper columns, either in their original formats or as reprinted in the books. - Iowa Pioneer Lives
Letters, diaries, and photographs documenting the lives of Iowa’s first white settlers, mid- to late-19th century
Iowa Land Records
- U.S., Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1820-1908
3,907 land management tract books containing official records of the land status and transactions involving surveyed public lands arranged by state and then by township and range. These books indicate who obtained the land, and include a physical description of the tract and where the land is located. The type of transaction is also recorded such as cash entry, credit entry, homesteads, patents (deeds) granted by the Federal Government, and other conveyances of title such as Indian allotments, internal improvement grants (to states), military bounty land warrants, private land claims, railroad grants, school grants, and swamp grants. Additional items of information included in the tract books are as follows: number of acres, date of sale, purchase price, land office, entry number, final Certificate of Purchase number, and notes on relinquishments and conversions. - Arizona Land Patents online. Index.
Iowa Locality Genealogical Records
- Grundy County
- Hancock County
- History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa
History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa together with sketches of their cities, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and 641 biographies of representative citizens. Also included is a history of Iowa embracing accounts of the pre-historic races, and a brief review of its civil and military history.
- History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa
- Harrison County
- Ida County
- Kossuth County
- History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa
History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa together with sketches of their cities, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and 641 biographies of representative citizens. Also included is a history of Iowa embracing accounts of the pre-historic races, and a brief review of its civil and military history.
- History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa
- Story County
- Webster County
- Centennial History of Webster County, Iowa
“Centennial History of Webster County, its towns and townships, and also the City of Fort Dodge.”
- Centennial History of Webster County, Iowa
- Winnebago County
- History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa
History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa together with sketches of their cities, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and 641 biographies of representative citizens. Also included is a history of Iowa embracing accounts of the pre-historic races, and a brief review of its civil and military history.
- History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa
Iowa Military Records
- Iowa Forts
List of colonial forts, trading posts, named camps, redoubts, reservations, general hospitals, national cemeteries, etc., established or erected in the United States from its earliest settlement to 1902. - Revolutionary War
- Civil War Records
- Civil War Pensions Index Cards
Each card gives the soldier’s name, unit, the application number, the certificate number and the state from which the soldier served. In some cases, the soldier’s rank, terms of service, date of death and place of death are given. The index cards refer to pension applications of veterans who served in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1917. The majority of the records pertain to Civil War veterans, but they also include veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, Indian wars, and World War I. - Iowa Civil War Diaries and Letters
- Civil War Pensions Index Cards
- Spanish American War
- TAPS (United Spanish War Veterans Deaths)
- Scott County, IA Soldier Orphans 1880
- Soldiers Orphan Home Davenport 1870 – 1880
- Camp Dodge Records
The Iowa National Guard Enlistment records are of those who enlisted in the Iowa National Guard between 1900 and 1940. If enlistee reenlisted that information is included. - World War I Records
- World War II Records
- World War 2 Casualties Army – Army Air Corps
- Iowa Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard World War II Casualty List
- Iowa World War II Diaries and Letters
- Iowa World War II Press Clippings
The State Historical Society of Iowa collected, sorted, and filed about 800,000 Iowa newspaper clippings documenting Iowa’s war efforts both at home and on foreign soil. More than 30 topics are covered by the clippings, including business and labor, casualties, education and training, farming and food, production and rationing, public health, life and activities, women’s military involvement, prisoners of war, and warships. The original clippings are closed to the public due to their deteriorating condition. However, through a cooperative preservation effort by the SHSI and the Iowa City Genealogical Society several of the topics are now available on microfilm through ILL or purchase. This digital collection makes a portion of the clippings available in an easily searchable online format.
- Korean War Casualty List
- Vietnam War Casualty List
Iowa Native American Records
- Iowa Indian Tribes
- Indian History of Winneshiek County Iowa
History on the Indians of Winneshiek county, Iowa including: Decorah Family genealogy, Fort Atkinson, and Chied Winneshiek - Sioux Indian Prisoners Confined at Camp Kearney
Iowa Vital Records
Iowa Yearbooks
- Drake University Yearbooks 1901-1994
- University of Iowa’s Hawkeye Yearbook 1892-1992
Published from 1892 until 1992 (except for a brief interruption during the 1970s), The University of Iowa’s Hawkeye yearbook features student portraits, photographs of the campus, club and team information, and frequently a foreword by the administration. These documents highlight the continuity and change of life on The University of Iowa campus during late 19th and 20th centuries. Please note that from 1892-1946 the yearbook was a project of the junior class and therefore editions from that time were dated to reflect the class’s graduation year, not the year of publication.