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• LDS Family History Catalog Search  (do a place search by state or county or town etc. to see what has been filmed)
  
  
• American Local History Network: Iowa
  
• Iowa at RootsWeb 
  
  
• Iowa Biographies Project 
  
• Iowa Databases at Rootsweb
  
  
• U.S. GenWeb Project: Iowa 
  
  

Research Guides

• FamilySearch Resource Guide: Iowa 
  
  
• Iowa Genealogy Research Basics
  
  
  

Archives & Libraries

• Iowa Digital Archives  (Rootsweb)
  
  
• Iowa Genealogical Society
  
  
• Iowa Public Libraries
  
  
• State Historical Society of Iowa
  
  
• State Library of Iowa 
  

Census Resources

• Census Links: Iowa 
  
• Census Online: Iowa 
  
• U.S. GenWeb Census Search 
  
  

Geographic Resources

• Iowa Maps:Perry Castaneda Library 
  
  
• Panoramic Maps 1847-1929:Iowa 
  
  
• Rootsweb Town Search
  
  
• note that most Iowa Genweb pages include a township map of the county.
  
  
  
  

History Resources

• Little Brown Church (Chickasaw Co., IA)
  
  
  
  

Land Records

• Bureau of Land Management Land Patent Search 
  
  
• Iowa Land Records Collection
  
  

Military  Records

• Black Hawk War of 1832
  
• Civil War Archive: Iowa
  
  
• Iowa Civil War Heritage Foundation
  
  
• Iowa Civil War Rosters 
  
  

Newspapers

• Iowa Newspapers at the State Historical Society of Iowa
  
  
• Kidon Media-Link: Iowa
  
  
  

Vital Records

• Iowa Vital Records Information 
  
  
• Cemetery Junction: Iowa 
  
  
• Cemetery Records Online: Iowa 
  
  
• CemSearch Iowa 
  
  
• Iowa Obituary Links
  
  
  

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