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Welcome to Iowa Genealogy Trails!
Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and
placing it online for the free use of all researchers.
We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project
be as successful as we can make it.
If you are interested in joining our group by hosting either this county website or one of the available county
websites
This county website is in need of a permanent host.
If you are interested joining our group as webmaster for this website, or any of our websites, view our Volunteer Information
page and Email Kim.
A desire to transcribe data and know-how to make a basic webpage is required.
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Cities and Towns
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Asbury -- Balltown -- Bankston -- Bernard -- Cascade
Centralia -- Dubuque -- Durango -- Dyersville -- Epworth
Farley -- Graf -- Holy Cross -- Luxemburg -- New Vienna
Peosta -- Rickardsville -- Sageville -- Sherrill -- Worthington -- Zwingle
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The county consists of 18 townships including:
Cascade -- Center -- Concord -- Dodge -- Dubuque
Iowa -- Jefferson -- Julien -- Liberty -- Mosalem
New Wine -- Peru -- Prairie Creek -- Table Mound
Taylor -- Vernon -- Washington -- White Water
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| The establishment of the City of Dubuque in 1833 led to large-scale
settlement of the surrounding area. This was greatly encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church, which sent priests,
bishops, and nuns to establish churches in the unpopulated countryside. Primarily, Irish and German (many of whom
were Catholic) immigrants came to the region. In 1858, Saint Francis Catholic Church was established in Dubuque
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County Information
Created in 1834 from "Michigan Territory", it is one of Iowa's two original counties along with Des Moines
County; both were organized by the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1834.
The City of Dubuque is the county seat, and was chartered in 1833 as the first city in Iowa.
The county was named for Julien Dubuque, the first European settler of Iowa and an early lead mining pioneer in
what is now Dubuque County. Dubuque was French Canadian, and had (by most accounts) a friendly relationship with
the local Fox Tribe of Native Americans. He and other early pioneers established a lucrative mining and trading
industry in the area. When lead deposits began becoming exhausted, the pioneers developed boat building, lumber
yards, millworking, brewing, and machinery manufacturing to take its place.
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ONLINE DATA
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Births
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Biographies
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Deaths
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Census Data
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Marriages
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Cemeteries
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Newspapers
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History
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Obituaries
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Military Data
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Website updates:
22 Jan 2008: GANSER obit
18 Jan 2008: SCHOESSOW, O'NEILL obit; Marriages |
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Surrounding Counties
Clayton County (north)
Grant County, Wisconsin (northeast), across the Mississippi River
Jo Daviess County,
Illinois (east), across the Mississippi River
Jackson County
(southeast)
Jones County
(southwest)
Delaware County
(west)
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