Genealogy Collection
Want to do a family tree? Don’t know where to start? Come see us!
Our wonderful genealogy collection includes:
- Census information for Lincoln and Creek counties from 1900 to 1930
- 1890 Schedule enumerating Union veterans and their widows
- other census publications
- Stroud High School year books
- Lincoln county history book
- Centennial publications for Sparks, Meeker and Stroud
- D.A.R. Cemetery Index for Lincoln county
- Stroud Newspaper obituary index
- and Lincoln county marriage index.
You may find the genealogy information
you are looking for right here!
The files listed below are all in PDF format. Further information is available by contacting the library. If requesting information by email, please include as much information about the source, all possible spellings of the person's name and as accurate a date range as you know.
The Library has microfilm of the Lincoln County Census from 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930. Information of persons that were living in Stroud was extracted from microfilm as best as we could read it. We also extracted information on those living around the Stroud area, known as the Keokuk Township. All lists are alphabetical by surname.
1900 Keokuk and Stroud Census (290 KB)
1910 Stroud Census (171 KB) 1910 Keokuk Census (146 KB)
1920 Stroud Census (168 KB) 1920 Keokuk Census (204 KB)
1930 Stroud Census (215 KB) 1930 Keokuk Census (200 KB)
The Library has microfilm of the local newspaper from 1900. From them, we have listed deceased persons in the Obituary Index. Information may be either from a death notice or a full obituary. Index includes person's name, date of death if known and source of information, listed alphabetically by person.
Obituary Index A to G (641 KB)
Obituary Index H to O (568 KB)
Obituary Index P to Z (603 KB)