Iowa Vital Records
Many web sites can help you find out more about your Iowa ancestors. In the table of information below, you will find many IA web sites organized for you, including the type of record, the title, the web site address, the approx. number of records, the date range, whether or not it is free, and notes about the site. Come back often as we will be adding more and more genealogy web sites to help you learn more about using the Internet to find your genealogy.
Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Global Tree Iowa Births | www.gencircles.com /globaltree/ and put IA in the birth place field | 0ver 150,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
| RootsWeb Iowa Birth WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com /cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Iowa in the birth place field | 0ver 840,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| RootsWeb Iowa Marriage WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com /cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Iowa in the marriage place field | 0ver 480,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| RootsWeb Iowa Death WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com /cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Iowa in the death place field | 0ver 690,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| Obiruary Daily Times: Iowa | obits.rootsweb.com /cgi-bin/obit.cgi and put IA in the Keyword Search | 0ver 230,000 | more recent dates | Free | Another nice Rootsweb site. The problem is that most of the death records are more recent. But it’s a great start. |
| Global Tree Iowa Deaths | www.gencircles.com /globaltree/ and put IA in the death place field | 0ver 110,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
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