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

What is in This Collection?
This collection contains an index and 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.

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

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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 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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