Davenport Iowa FamilySearch Center

This article describes the services and resources available at a FamilySearch Center, a branch facility of the FamilySearch Library.

The Davenport Family History was established in 1982. The Center services southeastern Iowa and northwestern Illinois around the Quad Cities.
The Center has over 3,500 films and over 750 books on various genealogical topics and areas.

Record holdings include:

Scott County, Iowa
Rock Island County, Illinois
Schleswig-Holstein (both in Denmark & Germany)
Sweden, various areas
Many other country and state records

Center Contacts and Hours

Location Map:

Address:

4929 Wisconsin Ave Davenport IA 52806 United States

The entrance is located on the South side of the building.
There is a handicap ramp located at same entrance.

Phone:

1 563-386-7547

E-mail:

IA_Davenport@ldsmail.net

Open Hours:

Tue 10:00am-2:00pm
Wed 10:00am-8:00pm
Thu 10:00am-7:00pm
Sat 10:00am-2:00pm

Holiday Schedule:

Closed:

Thanksgiving
Christmas

Calendar and Events

Class Schedule 2014

Free classes are taught on the 2nd Saturday of each month (except in Mar, Apr and Dec) at the Family History Center from 10:30 am to 11:30 am. The classes are open to the public and no registration is required. If you have questions, call the Family History Center at 563-386-7547.

Jan 11 Genealogy 101 - Getting started

Feb 8 Adding Sources to Family Tree

Mar 22 NO CLASS

Apr 12 NO CLASS

May 10 Polish Research

Jun 14 Census Records

Jul 12 Court House Records

Aug 9 German Research

Sep 13 Finding Generations & Clues Through Land Reocrds

Oct 11 Miltary Records

Nov 8 Passenger Lists

Dec 13 NO CLASS

Staff Training Meetings

Center Resources

Collections

Family History Library Catalog: The Family History Library Catalog is a list of all of the collections available for viewing or rental from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. (If the film is viewable online, it will be noted on the catalog with a link to the online film.)
Please see the Introduction to the Family History Library Catalogfor instructions on how to use the Catalog.
Films may be ordered online. Each person will have to sign in and order the film with their credit information. Choose the Davenport Family History Center as the place the film is to be sent. Patrons will be notified when the film arrives.

Databases and Software

FHC Portal This center has access to the Portal website which gives free access on the Family History Center's computers to many premium family history websites that generally require a subscription fee.
19th Century British Library Newspapers - A fully searchable database of the 48 national and regional Victorian British newspapers from 1800-1900. It contains nearly 3 million pages and 40 million articles.
Access Newspaper Archive - World's largest online newspaper archive, Features billions of articles from historical newspapers around the U. S. and the world. Full page and fully searchable.
Alexander Street Press – The America Civil War:

The American Civil War Research Database - contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. The database has thousands of regimental rosters and officer profiles. It includes a record for virtually every soldier who served in the war. There are descriptions of thousands of battles, with detailed multi-page battle orders and reports for significant battles such as Shiloh, Antietam, and Gettysburg.
Civil War Letters and Diaries - contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs. It is indexed. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies.
Images of the American Civil War - provides a vivid visual history of a nation in crisis. Thousands of dramatic images from the fields of battle, the home front, politics, and general society. The database currently holds over 12,200 images.

Ancestry Family History Library Edition – This site has 10+ billion records. U. S. federal and state census records, vital records, passenger lists, Canadian census, church, and vital records, UK census records, birth, marriage and death indexes, and other international records.
ArkivDigital Online – Swedish Church Records and much more
Find My Past – This site contains indexes for England and Wales, parish registers, death duty registers, passport applications, passenger lists leaving UK, 1841 through 1911, censuses, and military records.
Fold 3 – Resources cover colonial to mid-1900s US records. Includes some census records, vital records, photos, city directories, newspapers, town records, naturalizations, Revolutionary War records and Civil war and later military indexes, World War II "Old man's Draft" Cards, War of 1812 Pension Files, Mexican War Service Records, World War I. Officer Experience Reports, and Confederate Casualty Reports
Godfrey Memorial Library – Early American and 19th century U.S. newspaper and unique resources (this content is comprised of Godfrey’s own unique digitized in-house content), donated genealogical books, research materials and projects, Civil war research database, letters and diaries.
Heritage Quest Online – Census records (indexed by heads of household, but not all years are indexed), digitized searchable books, Periodical Source Index (PERSI), selected records from the Revolutionary War pension and bounty land warrant application files, Freedman’s Bank Records, and U. S. Serial Set.
Historical Map Works Library Edition – Over 800,000 property maps covering the U.S. from late 1700’s to the present, over 100,000 antique maps covering the world from 15th to 19th centuries, and city directories, atlases, business ads, bird’s eye views.
Paper Trail – Index to Mormon and Oregon Trail Diaries.
World Vital Records – Worldwide records including immigration, some U.S., Canadian and U.K. censuses, vital records, parish and land records, family histories, directories, court probate records, digitized books and newspapers, Irish wills and censuses, German Hungarian land census, Scottish death records, England and Wales Births, Marriages, and Deaths.