Here are some links to websites to help you with your research.
| General local information: | ||
| Council Bluffs Convention & Visitors Bureau | A guide to places to stay and things to do while visiting Council Bluffs. | |
| Travel Iowa | A resource of things to do, places to go and where to stay while you’re visiting Iowa. A free guidebook will be sent to you when you visit this site. | |
| Other State and County Sites: | ||
| Cass County, Iowa | ||
| Crawford County, Iowa | ||
| Fremont County, Iowa | ||
| Harrison County, Iowa | ||
| Mills County, Iowa | ||
| Montgomery County, Iowa | ||
| Shelby County, Iowa | ||
| Historical Society of Pottawattamie County | ||
| Pottawattamie County IAGenWeb Site | Part of the IAGenWeb Project. Lots of useful information. | |
| Plumer Settlement Web Site | Oak Township, Mills County. One of the earliest settlements in southwest Iowa. | |
| Greater Omaha Genealogical Society | Our neighbor in Nebraska. | |
| Iowa Genealogy Resources: | ||
| Bureau of Vital Records | Iowa Department of Public Health. | |
| David Rumsey Map Collection – Images of Iowa | Hundreds of historic Iowa maps. | |
| Genealogy Buff-IA | Obituaries for Benton, Buena Vista, Cedar, Crawford, Hardin, Jones, Lyon, Mahaska, Osceola, Sioux, Union, Washington, and Webster Counties. | |
| Iowa Biographies Project | Bios of famous, infamous and not so famous Iowans. | |
| Iowa DOT Historical Maps | Iowa historical transportation maps. | |
| State Association for the Preservation of Iowa Cemeteries (SAPIC) | ||
| State Historical Society of Iowa | ||
| National and LDS Genealogical Resources | ||
| Library of Congress | Local History — Genealogy Reading Room | |
| NARA | National Archives and Records Administration. Distributes Aids for Genealogical Research. | |
| USGenWeb Project,The | Check out information in other states. | |
| Other Useful Genealogical Resources | ||
| Ancestry.com | One of the internet’s leading sites for genealogy research. (Requires paid membership). | |
| Ancient Faces | Entirely free visual genealogy exchange. Thousands of photos scanned and uploaded so that others searching their family trees can place faces with the names of their ancestors. | |
| Andersonville Prison | Search the Descriptive and Historical Register of Enlisted Soldiers in the U. S. Army who served “At Buffalo” between 1835 and 1846. Every pre-Civil War state was well represented at this short lived federal military post. Many soldiers had come from England, Germany, Ireland and Scotland and honorably served the U. S. Army in the Florida Indian Wars, the War with Mexico and then the American Civil War. | |
| Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum | Stereoviews, engravings, maps and documents illustrating the history of the first transcontinental railroad. | |
| Chronicling America | Historic American newspapers from the Library of Congress. | |
| Cyndi’s List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet | A Must See Site! with over 11,000 links, categorized and cross-referenced, in over 60 categories. | |
| Doak, Nancy Trip to Germany | Ever wonder what it would be like to take a three-week trip to Germany? Read PCGS member Nancy Doak’s fascinating and detailed account of her and her husband Jeff’s trip in the fall of 2013. | |
| Deciphering Old Handwriting | A guide to help you read what they wrote. | |
| Ellis Island | The Ellis Island database is now live and supposed to contain everyone who passed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. | |
| Family Genealogy and History Internet Education Directory | Professional worldwide humanities and social sciences mega portal, connected directly to thousands of related sub-sets, with billions of primary or secondary database family history and genealogy records. | |
| Family Tree Maker | The site of one of the most popular genealogy softwares available. They have links to sites and a surname index among other things. | |
| Find A Grave | Cemeteries and burials, many photographed, all across the United States. | |
| Genealogy.com | Contains over 115 million names from census records, marriage records, social security death records, actual family trees, and more. | |
| German Ancestors back to the Middle Ages | There are now 24,474 individuals and 10,271 families representing 6,849 surnames in this database. | |
| Irish Genealogical Society International | A great site for tracing your Irish ancestry. | |
| Family Search | One of the best sites on the web. It’s directly linked to the LDS library in Salt Lake City. | |
| Mankind’s A to Z of Regional Genealogy and Local History Research | This Internet site demographically catalogs the people of the world, who live upon and share this planet Earth. Total ethnic group populations are combined with regions having significant ethnic populations, thus allowing global consideration of migration patterns over generations of time. | |
| Native American Genealogy | A list of sites and links that trace the genealogy of Native Americans. | |
| New England Historic Genealogical Society | ||
| Records Searcher | A list of links to various genealogy record sites. | |
| Photos from SW Iowa | Includes Pottawattamie and Harrison Counties. Includes surnames: Bateman, Clark, Donnelson, Ferris, Ford, Jensen, Johnson, Winchester, Wright. | |
| Southern Trails | This site has a list of maps, mostly of the U.S. South. | |
| Tiger Mapping Service | Sponsored by the U. S. Bureau of the Census. The goal of this service is to provide a public resource for generating high-quality, detailed maps of anywhere in the United States, using public geographic data. |