Thank you Jean. While visiting the campus library website I noted that some parts of the search engines could be used by visitors, but the whole body of work is access restricted to staff and students. They who apply for a PW and UN can have access to read a great amount of work. I note one family donated five linear feet of family files. That alone is a lot of files. Scheaming time: If any of us know a member of staff, or a student, perhaps we can have access to some types of genealogical or land material, or perhaps able to get a lookup now and then...... Ideas anyone? donkelly ----- Original Message ----- From: Jean Perera <jperera_1999@yahoo.com> To: iowa@rootsweb.com Sent: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 14:53:16 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [IOWA] Iowa Land Records The maps at U of I are wonderful.  I particularly liked the digitized maps so I could find my ancestors farms. The Hixson Plat Book, 1930 http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/index_hixson.php?CISOROOT=/hixson has some very clear maps with very legible handwriting.  I also found the Iowa Historic Atlases from the late 1800's to early 1900's http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/index_maps.php?CISOROOT=/maps very useful. Jean Perera _____________________________________________ For additional information concerning how the list works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ _____________________________________________ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message