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Guide to Marshall County Iowa genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

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Marshall County, Iowa
Map
Location in the state of Iowa
Location of Iowa in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	January 13, 1846
County Seat	Marshalltown
Courthouse
Address	Marshall County Courthouse 1 E Main St Marshalltown, IA 50158 Marshall County Website

County Courthouse 

Picture of the courthouse at:

http://www.co.marshall.ia.us/facilities/courthouse

History

Parent County

1846--Marshall County was created 13 January 1846 from unorganized territory. It was attached to Jasper and Linn Counties prior to organization 1 October 1849.  County seat:  Marshalltown ^[1]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

Grundy | Hardin | Jasper | Poweshiek | Story | Tama

Resources

Cemeteries

  Riverside Cemetery

    611 North Center Street

    Marshalltown, IA 50158-1618

    (641) 753-7891

Rose Hill Memorial Gardens

  602 Iowa Avenue Ease 

  (Iowa Avenue is old Highway 30)

  Marshalltown, IA 50158-4779

  (641) 752-0360

Church

Most church records are held by individual churches. For contact information, check a phone directory, such as SearchBug or Dex Knows. Some denominations are gathering their records into a central repository. For more information about these major repositories, see Iowa Church Records.

Lutheran

• Records of the American Lutheran Church, Marshalltown, in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).

Court

Land

Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.

See Iowa Land and Property for additional information about early Iowa land grants. After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions were usually recorded at the county courthouse, where records are currently housed.

Local Histories 

Local histories are available for Marshall County, Iowa. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section Iowa Local Histories.

Maps

David Rumsey Map Collection is a large online collection of rare, old, antique historical atlases, globes, maps, charts plus other cartographic treasures.

Military

Newspapers

Wikipedia has more about this subject: List of online newspaper archives

NewspaperArchive.com ($) has a large collection of digitized Iowa newspapers online. This database is sometimes free at libraries.

Probate

In most counties in Iowa, probate records have been kept by the county judge. They include wills, fee books, claim registers, legacy records, inheritance records, probate ticklers, and dockets. The records are available at the county courthouse.

The Family History Library Catalog lists films of probate records. To find the records for this county, use the Place Search for Iowa - Marshall - Probate records.

Taxation

Vital Records

Vital Records consist of births, adoptions, marriages, divorces, and deaths recorded on registers, certificates, and documents. A copy or an extract of most original records can be purchased from the Iowa Department of Public Health or the County Clerk's office of the county where the event occurred.

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
• Marshalltown Iowa Family History Center

Web Sites

• Marshall County Genealogical Society
• Family History Library Catalog
• Marshall County, Iowa Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)

References

1. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).

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