Iowa, Monroe County, Card Index of Births, Deaths & Marriages from Newspaper Clippings - FamilySearch Historical Records

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Monroe, Iowa, United States
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Location of Monroe, Iowa
Location of Iowa
Record Description
Record Type	Newspaper
Collection years	1898-2015
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Step-by-Step Iowa Research, 1880-Present
Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935
Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934
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Iowa Genealogy, Vital Records, Obituaries, Newspapers
Iowa Archives and Libraries
Iowa Births and Christenings, 1830-1950 Index
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Monroe County Genealogical Society, Iowa

What is in This Collection?

This collection contains an index & images to births, deaths, and marriages clipped from local newspapers. Information came from a card index created by the Monroe County Genealogical Society. The collection consists of 3x5 cards with newspaper clippings of births, marriages, and deaths. The cards also include some handwritten information.

Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.

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The following information may be found in these records:

• Names of individuals
• Dates of births, marriages, and deaths
• Names of parents
• Names of relatives
• Names of spouses

Collection Content

Sample Images

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  1979 Birth

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  1955 Marriage

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  1989 Obituary

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Other FamilySearch Collections

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FamilySearch Catalog

• Monroe County, card index of births, deaths & marriages from newspaper clippings, 1898-2015
• Iowa, Monroe County, veterans burials, 1860-1945
• Birth records, 1880-1935; index to births, 1880-1942; index to deaths, 1880-1925
• Iowa, Monroe County, birth records, 1921-1929
• Death records, 1880-1923; index, 1880-1897,1921-1925
• Marriage records, 1845-1941; index, 1845-1975

FamilySearch Historical Records

• Iowa Births and Christenings, 1830-1950
• Iowa, Birth Records, 1921-1942
• Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935
• Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939
• Iowa Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990
• Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951
• Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992
• Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992
• Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934
• Iowa, Marriage Records, 1941-1951

FamilySearch Digital Library

• The history of Monroe County, Iowa : containing a history of the county, its cities, town, &c., a biographical directory of citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics ... Chicago, Illinois : Western Historical, 1878

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