{"id":1728,"date":"2010-05-17T09:44:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2010-05-17T09:44:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:44:45","slug":"calling-all-genealogists-and-historians-free-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2010\/05\/17\/calling-all-genealogists-and-historians-free-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling All Genealogists (and Historians): Free Stuff!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Genealogists (and historians) love free stuff. I think that\u2019s because almost everything genealogists do costs money—copies of vital records, paying for research in some far off place, gas money to travel to the cemeteries or a great library (ahem).<\/p>\n

Well, here’s a\u00a0discovery you’re sure to love: several interesting Iowa history books can be found online FOR FREE at www.genealogysearch.org\/free\/bia.html<\/a><\/p>\n

You can access full text images of a gazetteer by Nathan Howe Parker called Iowa as it is in 1856.<\/em> (He also wrote one in 1855. Just FYI)<\/p>\n

There is also a link to Iowa Map Collection – a nice collection of county atlases and plat books.<\/p>\n

A really fascinating resource called Legal Status of Women in Iowa<\/em> by Jennie L. Wilson was published in 1894. She summarized the legal status of women during that time period. \u00a0We\u2019ve come a long way baby\u2026or have we?<\/p>\n

Any ancestors from western Iowa? You might find some interesting clues to their life in Early Settlement and Growth of Western Iowa or Reminiscences<\/em> [1906] by Rev. John Todd.<\/p>\n

There are also full text images specific to some of Iowa\u2019s counties. Local residents might find the 1878 History of Cedar County<\/em> helpful, or Franc B. Wilkie’s Davenport, past and present, <\/em>\u00a0which was published in 1858.<\/p>\n

Gotta love it \u2013 it\u2019s all FREE!<\/p>\n

(posted by Karen)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Genealogists (and historians) love free stuff. I think that\u2019s because almost everything genealogists do costs money—copies of vital records, paying for research in some far off place, gas money to travel to the cemeteries or a great library (ahem). Well, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[445,1409,446,447],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-history","tag-free-stuff","tag-genealogy","tag-iowa-genealogy-and-history-books-online","tag-iowa-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXc-rS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}