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NORTHEAST IOWA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
503 SOUTH STREET, WATERLOO, IOWA 50701-1517
SERVING BLACK HAWK COUNTY, IOWA
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NORTHEAST IOWA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OFFICERS
PRESIDENT: MAE LYNNE DEAN
VICE PRESIDENT: LYLIA HARE
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MICHAEL J. MAGEE
RECORDING SECRETARY: ELLA MAE PELTON
TREASURER: KATHLEEN RANEY
REGISTRAR LAURINE GUYER
LIBRARIAN: SHELA PRETWELL
NEWSLETTER EDITOR MICHAEL J. MAGEE
- The Northeast Iowa Genealogical Society meets on the third Tuesday of each month except for July, August and December. Meetings are held at the Grout Museum of History & Science, 503 South St. Waterloo, Iowa.
- Our Meetings begin at 7:30pm. Anyone interested in genealogy may attend.
- When the Society was formed in 1970, we were the only genealogical society in Northeast Iowa. Since then nearly all of the counties in NE Iowa now have a genealogical society. Our society now pertains to Black Hawk County, Iowa, only.
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- Anyone who needs the address of another genealogical society may write to our society and we will mail the address of that society to you. Please include a SASE.
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- Queries: if you have a query to place in our newsletter please bring it to a meeting or mail it to our society for inclusion in our next newsletter.
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- Located here in the Grout Museum the Han's J. Chryst Library is the premier Northeast Iowa historical and genealogical resource. With over 11,500 maps, documents, news clippings and historical photographs, over 2,500 historical and genealogical books. the library is an outstanding research tool for the museum staff and the many genealogists, historians, students and scholars that use the library every year.
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RESEARCH: Our society will do Black Hawk County, Iowa genealogical research. Our fee is $6.00 per hour plus photocopying costs. Please send a SASE.
Upcoming meeting schedule
March 17 -"Inherited Heirlooms"
April 21 - "Admiral Dewey Genealogy and Collectibles", presented by George
Hubbard"
May - 19 "State Association for the Preservation of Iowa Cemeteries" presented
by Pat Shaw & Michael Magee.
June - Annual Banquet
July - no meeting
August - no meeting
September 15 - TBA
October 20 - "Preservation Techniques"
November - TBA
OBITUARY FILES:
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OUR SOCIETY COMPILES THE OBITUARIES OF PERSONS WHO HAVE DIED IN BLACK HAWK COUNTY, IOWA ON 4X6 CARDS. IT IS OUR INTENTION TO HAVE THESE FILES PLACED IN THE LIBRARY AT THE GROUT MUSEUM. HOWEVER WE DO NEED A METAL FILE CABINET THAT IS SET UP FOR USING 4X6 CARDS. IF ANYONE HAS SUCH A FILE CABINET THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO DONATE, PLEASE CONTACT OUR SOCIETY.
Black Hawk County And Iowa Genealogy Web Sites and Resources
Black Hawk County during the Civil War
Black Hawk County IAGENWEB
Grout Museum District
Iowa Genealogy Page
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State Historical Society of Iowa
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