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 widows of Union veterans
• 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!

You can download the Rich Text Format (.rtf) files by clicking the links below.

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 copies of the Lincoln County Census from 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930.  Information of persons that were living in the City of 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 (2.88 MB)
1910 Stroud Census (1.25 MB)  1910 Keokuk Census (937 KB)
1920 Stroud Census (1.39 MB)  1920 Keokuk Census (1.93 MB)
1930 Stroud Census (1.90 MB)  1930 Keokuk Census (1.64 MB)

The Library has microfilm copies 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 the person's name.   Obituary Index (9.7 MB)