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•	Iowa Marriages, 1851-1900 Index to marriage records from various Iowa counties between 1851 and 1900.
•	Iowa City, Iowa Semi-Centennial Directory, 1840-90 Directory listing more than 2,600 names for Iowa City, Iowa, from 1840-1890.
•	Iowa Marriages to 1850 Database of Iowa marriages to 1850
•	Iowa Progressive Men Biographies of progressive men in Iowa history
•	Iowa Census, 1838-70 U.S. Federal Census indexes (and other related census indexes) for Iowa from 1838 to 1870
•	Muscatine County, Iowa Civil War Soldiers
•	Iowa Union Soldier Burial Records Listing of 5,000 Civil War veterans who served or lived in Iowa following the war.
•	Augustin Ravoux, Minnesota and Iowa Reminiscences Letters, lectures, and memoirs of a Catholic missionary among the Sioux Indians
•	Des Moines, Iowa Directory, 1889-91 Directory listing of over 174,900 residents of Des Moines, Iowa between 1889 and 1891
•	Iowa Cemetery Records This collection contains gravestones from seventy-six counties and Sioux City, Iowa transcribed by the Graves Registration Project of the Works Project Administration.
•	Linn County, Iowa History, Volume II This database provides a history of Linn county, Iowa from its earliest settlement to its publication in 1911.
•	Linn County, Iowa, History to 1878 A history of Linn County, including numerous biographical sketches.
•	Sioux City, Iowa Directories, 1889-90, 1892-93 Directories listing more than 10,700 names for Sioux City, Iowa from 1889 to 1890 and from 1892 to 1893.
•	Muscatine, Iowa Directory, 1891-93 Directory listing more than 5,000 names for Muscatine, Iowa from 1891 to 1893.
•	Creston, Iowa Directory, 1889 Directory listing more than 4,800 names for Creston, Iowa in 1889.
•	Boone, Iowa Directory, 1885-86 Directory listing more than 1,200 names for Boone, Iowa from 1885 to 1886.
•	1840 United States Federal Census 1840 United States Federal Census with links to images of the original surviving population schedules.
•	1850 United States Federal Census 1850 United States Federal Census with links to images of the original surviving population schedules.
•	Ancestry World Tree Millions of references to lineage linked individuals and families identifying research on given family lines.
•	PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) Index to articles written in over 5,000 genealogical publications
•	Social Security Death Index Social Security Administration Death Master File
•	American Civil War Soldiers Military records of individual Civil War soldiers
•	Slave Narratives Impressive collection of interviews of former slaves in the United States
•	Civil War Pension Index Index to and images of pension cards of Civil War veterans in the United States.

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Iowa Genealogy Help

Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century.

There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the Iowa vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once Iowa vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your Iowa ancestors using Iowa census records.

Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them.

Iowa Vital Records Information
(How to contact the Vital Records Department of Iowa)

Event: Birth or death

Cost of copy: $10.00

Address:
Iowa Department of Public Health
Vital Records Section
Lucas Office Building
321 East 12th Street
Des Moines, IA 50319-0075

Remarks: State office has had records since July 1880.

Check or money order should be made payable to Iowa Department of Public Health. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (515) 281-4944. This will be a recorded message. Information on how to obtain certified copies is also available via the internet at Iowa Department of Public Health.

Event: Marriage

Cost of copy: $10.00

Address:
Iowa Department of Public Health
Vital Records Section
Lucas Office Building
321 East 12th Street
Des Moines, IA 50319-0075

Remarks: State office has had records since July 1880.

Event: Divorce (State)

Cost of copy: See remarks

Address:
Iowa Department of Public Health
Vital Records Section
Lucas Office Building
321 East 12th Street
Des Moines, IA 50319-0075

Remarks: Brief statistical record only since 1906. Inquiries will be forwarded to appropriate office. Certified copies are not available from State Health Department.

Event: Divorce (county)

Cost of copy: $6.00

Address: See remarks

Remarks: Clerk of District Court in county where divorce was granted.