Des Moines County Genealogical Society

"Discover, Preserve and share your family's history"

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Portrait and Biographical Album of Des Moines County, Iowa
Chicago: Western Hist. Co., 1879. - index, 105 bios online
The History of Des Moines County, Iowa    
Chicago: Western Hist. Co., 1879. - index, 105 bios online 
Biographical Review of Des Moines County, Iowa 
Hobart Pub. Co., 1905. - index, 10 bios online  
History of Des Moines County, Iowa,
Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1915. -  index, 8 bios online   
Burlington Public Library
210 Court Street · Burlington, IA 52601 · 319-753-1647 
Local History and Genealogy Resources    
Burlington Public Library 
 
Family Search
Free Family History, Family Tree, and Genealogy  Records and Resources from Around the World
Burlington LDS Family History Center
2727 Cliff Road
Burlington, Iowa 52601
Ph (319) 758-0567
Hours
Tue, Thr, Sat – 9amNoon
Wed 7-8:30pm
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
The DAR, founded in 1890 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a non-profit, non-political volunteer women's service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history, and securing America's future through better education for children
Zaba Search
Free People Search and Public Information Search Engine
 
The National Archival Services of Norway is an independent government authority under the Ministry of Culture.
Dead Fred's Genealogy Photo Archive,
a free, fun photo genealogy research web site devoted to helping you visualize your heritage
The Illinois State Archives
The Illinois State Archives serves by law as the depository of public records of Illinois state and local governmental agencies which possess permanent administrative, legal, or historical research values. Its collections do not include manuscript, newspaper, or other nonofficial sources.
Newspaper Obituaries
Access newspaper obituaries and discover your genealogy online. Discover obituary resources like old newspaper obituaries archives and Download free genealogy forms and printable family tree charts
When it first appeared in 1960, Malcolm Stern's Americans of Jewish Descent marked a milestone in the study of American Jewish genealogy. He authored a book titled First American Jewish Families.  Rabbi Stern was instrumental it the preservation of Jewish descendants genealogy. It is unknown how many book are in this collection and we are trying to find out. If you have Jewish Heritage this is an excellent web site to search. It appears all information is online for everyone to search at no cost. When we get permission we will be adding it to our many resource links. www.americanjewisharchives.org

AfriGeneas is a site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general. It is also an African Ancestry research community featuring the AfriGeneas mail list, the AfriGeneas message boards and daily and weekly genealogy chats.

American Battle Monuments Commission The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) was established by Congress in 1923 to commemorate the service, achievements, and sacrifice of U.S. armed forces where they have served overseas since 1917, and within the U.S. when directed by public law.

Interment.net A free online library of burial records from thousands of cemeteries across the world, for historical and genealogy research.

America's first
immigration center
This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 12 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. Over 100 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period.

The History of Des Moines County Iowa      

The book is published online. Chicago Western Historical Company of 1879

Small Town Papers

Choose from over 250 small town newspapers
you can read free every week!

Browse and search scanned newspaper archive
from 1865 up to the current edition!

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