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• Adoptee Rights Law Center - Iowa

  Summary of the laws in this state for adoptees and their original birth certificates.

• Ancestors at Rest - Death Records for Iowa

  Coffin plates, funeral cards, death cards, wills, memorial cards, cemeteries, vital stats, obituaries, church records, family bibles, cenotaphs and tombstone inscriptions.

• Ancestry.com - Iowa Marriages to 1850 $

  Original source: Dodd, Jordan R, et. al.. Early American Marriages: Iowa to 1850. Bountiful, UT, USA: Precision Indexing Publishers, 19xx. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - Iowa, Births and Christenings Index, 1857-1947 $

  Original source: "Iowa Births and Christenings, 1830

• Ancestry.com - Iowa, Marriage Records, 1880-1937 $

  Original source: Iowa Department of Public Health. Iowa Marriage Records, 1880

• Ancestry.com - Iowa, Marriages, 1851-1900 $

  Original source: See extended description for original data sources listed by county. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - Search Birth, Marriage & Death Records

  Including baptisms, christenings, divorces, burials, cemeteries and obituaries. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

  • Iowa Birth, Marriage & Death

• Archives.com - Search For Iowa Death Records $

  Use Archives.com with a FREE 7-day membership and search over 2.1 billion records. Pay-for-use after the seven day free trial.

• Archives.com - Search For Iowa Divorce Records $

  Use Archives.com with a FREE 7-day membership and search over 2.1 billion records. Pay-for-use after the seven day free trial.

• Archives.com - Search For Iowa Marriage Records $

  Use Archives.com with a FREE 7-day membership and search over 2.1 billion records. Pay-for-use after the seven day free trial.

• FamilySearch - Iowa Births and Christenings, 1830-1950 ^FREE

  Name index to birth, baptism and christening records from the state of Iowa. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and Family History Centers. This set contains 1,778,058 records. Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later.

• FamilySearch - Iowa Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990 ^FREE

  Name index to death and burial records from the state of Iowa. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and Family History Centers. This set contains 398,978 records. Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later.

• FamilySearch - Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992 ^FREE

  Name index to marriage records from the state of Iowa. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and Family History Centers. This set contains 2,626,423 records. Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later.

• FamilySearch - Iowa, Church and Civil Marriages, 1837-1989 ^FREE

  Index to selected marriage records.

• FamilySearch - Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935 ^FREE

  Index to the birth records created by the counties of Iowa. When completed it will contain records for all of the 99 counties in the state. This collection is 18% complete. Additional records will be added as they are completed.

• FamilySearch - Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992 ^FREE

  Compilation of county death records. The collection contains indexes, death records, certificates, registers, etc. for 98 of the 99 counties.

• FamilySearch - Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934 ^FREE

  Name indexes for county marriages in Iowa. Currently, portions of the following counties are represented in this collection: Adair, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Buchanan, Calhoun, Clarke, Clinton, Crawford, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Dickinson, Dubuque, Franklin, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Harrison, Henry, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk, Lee. Currently this collection is 5% complete. Additional records will be added as they are completed. The microfilms are available at the Family History Library and at family history centers.

• FamilySearch Wiki - Iowa Vital Records

  An overview of vital records for this state and information for getting them by mail or online.

• Findmypast - Iowa Deaths & Burials 1850-1990 $

• Iowa Department of Public Health - Vital Records

  Provides links to information on availability, fees, ordering procedures and printable forms for Iowa vital records.