> Pam, or anyone else: Where did you find GAR records? How do you get a copy of them? Thanks, Courtney in Minnesota >I just wanted to add to the G.A.R. discussion that I found a lot of missing >dates on my ancestor's G.A.R. record. I had the names of his children, but >not the dates. It was well worth the effort to find the record. > >Pam

Someone asked recently about Butler County History and whether there was a history written for each township. I checked at the Greene Library , and located a two-volume history published in 1914. Volume I contains historical information about the state and its counties, as well as detail on Butler County and all townships and towns.Volume II contains a number of biographies and some pictures of prominent residents of the county. Unfortunately, the library does not allow these volumes to be sent out of the state. If someone on this list would want information from them, I would be willing to scan and e-mail pages for a limited number of individuals and/or towns & townships. Don Woodley _dwdwrks2@omnitelcom.com_ RAOGK Volunteer for Bremer, Butler, Floyd and Franklin counties in Iowa.

Pam, So good to hear you had some luck finding Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) records. Pam bless your kind soul for telling us. Please help us out here. Would you please tell us (I think it would be interesting to a lot of folks on the list and for the list archives) or at least tell me where you found the GAR records? Please, please lead me by the hand and tell me what to do and whom I should ask. Give me all the details. Also, please explain in detail the kinds of information found in records the GAR kept. I don't want to have unrealistic expectations. Thanks in advance (TIA) If some kind soul (SKS) out there can assist in any way I would really appreciate it. I have been trying to find anyone that even knew anything about the Cincinnati, Appanoose Co, Iowa GAR post named for my great-grandfather, 1st Sgt. Company I, 36th Infantry Regiment Iowa Henry JAQUISS and everyone including GAR websites has/have replied that there are no known records. That when the post disbanded or the last member died each post did whatever with their records and that there is no known central depository. Grand Army of the Republic Cincinnati, Iowa Post # 325 named Jaquiss in honor of Henry 1st Sgt. 36th Iowa Infantry http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/gar/appendix/iowa4.html; Department of Iowa: Post Names and Locations (Posts 301-400) Organized September 26, 1866 Reorganized January 23, 1879 325. Jaquiss Cincinnati I was hoping there would be records and maybe since the post was named for him even a picture. TIA Deborah Jaquiss in the suburbs of Washington, DC, USA snip >>>>>Pam Prine said I just wanted to add to the G.A.R. discussion that I found a lot of missing dates on my ancestor's G.A.R. record. I had the names of his children, but not the dates. It was well worth the effort to find the record. Pam <<<<< unsnip

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Hello list, I'm looking for information on the death of my g grandmother. Her name was Mary Jane Walsh and at the time of her death she was married to Frank Walsh. They are listed on the 1930 census as living in Marcus, IA. She was previously married to Henry (Hender) Wesley Willey. Any help is greatly appreciated. Sherry Kelley

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Thanks so much everyone... 15 responses in such a short time... great!!! Wendy

Does anyone know what the initials "G.A.R." mean in relation to the Civil War? Many thanks for any help. Wendy

I just wanted to add to the G.A.R. discussion that I found a lot of missing dates on my ancestor's G.A.R. record. I had the names of his children, but not the dates. It was well worth the effort to find the record. Pam

Grand Army of the Republic http://suvcw.org/gar.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Wright-Cao" <wesowc@comcast.net> To: <IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 1:27 PM Subject: [IOWA] G.A.R. > Does anyone know what the initials "G.A.R." mean in relation to the Civil War? > Many thanks for any help. > Wendy > > > ==== IOWA Mailing List ==== > The IOWA Lists now have their own website with unsub > instructions, list rules and other useful information. > Visit & Bookmark http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > > >

The initials mean "Grand Army of the Republic". On Jan 18, 2005, at 1:27 PM, Wendy Wright-Cao wrote: > Does anyone know what the initials "G.A.R." mean in relation to the > Civil War? > Many thanks for any help. > Wendy > > > ==== IOWA Mailing List ==== > The IOWA Lists now have their own website with unsub > instructions, list rules and other useful information. > Visit & Bookmark http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx >

Hi: Looking for Maurice and Hannorah O"Brian and children on the 1900 Federal census in either Praire Creek, Dubuque County, Iowa or in Butler Township, Garryowen, Jackson County, Iowa. Thanks for your assistance. Patrick Turner

The census enumerator instruction site was great. I found out that the profession of my gg-grandfather Silas H. Hazard in Iowa City in 1850 (listed as O.S.P.M.) was Old School Presbyterian Minister. I knew he was a Pres. minister but always wondered what the O.S. stood for. Kay B.

Does anyone have a copy of the 1895 census's for Clayton and Fayette counties? LDS film#'s 1020190 & 1020350 My local lds doesn't have a gen center and I'd really rather not wait forever for lDS to send it to me. By the way, I'm still looking for any reference to the Surnames Fay, Salisbury,Dickenson and a Leona Baker in Iowa. Thank you Scott __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com

I think it means Grand Army of the Republic. ----- Original Message ----- From: Wendy Wright-Cao<mailto:wesowc@comcast.net> To: IOWA-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:27 AM Subject: [IOWA] G.A.R. Does anyone know what the initials "G.A.R." mean in relation to the Civil War? Many thanks for any help. Wendy ==== IOWA Mailing List ==== The IOWA Lists now have their own website with unsub instructions, list rules and other useful information. Visit & Bookmark http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist<http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist> ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx>

Lisa, thank you so much for the clue as to how to find the enumerator instructions. It's been so helpful to me already in answering some major family questions about what seemed to be discrepancies in the census from year to year. I've passed a couple of the URL's on to the family name list that I coordinate. The explanation about how to count (or not) Native Americans was very enlightening, as well as other parts of it. What a chore those early enumerators had! I gained a new respect for them realizing all they must have gone through to ferret out all those details in some of the censuses. And no wonder some people hid from the census taker (or loosed the hounds) with all those personal questions. (As far as I can tell, my maternal grandfather's family never ever were included in any census -- his stock answer to most questions was "none of yer dambizness.") Jeanne Surber ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Lepore" <llepore@comcast.net> To: <IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 10:57 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] Enumerator instructions > Here is a site with enumerator instructions for all the census years. > > www.google.com > enter census enumerator instructions in the search box, > and Voila! > > There are all sorts of other links that came up. this is > just the first one. > > Lisa

http://www.ipums.umn.edu/usa/voliii/tEnumInstr.html Thank you for getting me to this site. It has lots of information regarding the instructions for census takers. Sure takes some of the mystery out of some of those unusual items in old census records. Sue

Here is a site with enumerator instructions for all the census years. www.google.com enter census enumerator instructions in the search box, and Voila! There are all sorts of other links that came up. this is just the first one. Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Thielmann" <sthielmann@machlink.com> Subject: Re: [IOWA] Meaning of relation terms on the census > Does anyone know if there were enumerators manuals? Have any survived? > > Sue

When I first started teaching in 1961, I roomed at a widow's home. I paid rent for the room by the week. I stayed at her home the whole school year. I ate all of my meals at a restaurant. If you are a boarder, you pay for the use of a room and meals, either by the week or the month depending upon the agreement when you found the room. You can stay for as long as the room is available or you do not follow the rules of the house. Ruth in Blaine, Mn

This makes sense from the concept of "room and board". If meals were included with the concept of roomer, the word "board" would be redundnat. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: WILLIAM RUTH <ruth4374@msn.com> To: <IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 6:56 PM Subject: [IOWA] Previous email about the meaning of relation terms on the census > This is the response I got from Helen. She looked up the terms in the dictionary I think. > > Thanks to everyone who responded. > Kathy > > > > Boarder--one who is supplied with meals > > Lodger--one who lives in hired quarters in another's house > > Roomer--a lodger. > > They are much the same, but I would suspect that a lodger and a roomer had > to get their own meals somewhere else and all they had was a room. > > > ==== IOWA Mailing List ==== > The IOWA Lists now have their own website with unsub > instructions, list rules and other useful information. > Visit & Bookmark http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >