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Clayton County PO
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Email - ccgs@alpinecom.net Email contact:
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Clayton County PO
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About the
Clayton County Genealogical Society
We are a no-profit organization with 60 members. Volunteers and donations of pictures, memories, scrapbooks, family genealogical materials are welcome. Due to a generous donation to the CCGS, we were able to open a permanent home for our resources in the fall of 2015. Materials that were housed at the Elkader public library are now at the new facility.
Memberships: $8/year single membership and $10/year for a family (couple) membership. Lifetime member (age 55 and older) $100, includes a free 1984 Clayton County History book.
Memorials and donations
have purchased an extensive collection of Clayton County
microfilmed census records and newspapers.
- images of the Clayton
County Register and other Clayton
county newspapers are now available for viewing online in
the digital archives of the Elkader Public Library. Click this link to open the archives
in a new window.
Some of our
accomplishments:
*We have published over 11,000 pages of compiled
history! Check out our publications!
Note! The publications list was updated 10/27/2017.
*Our Cemetery Location" booklet features all of the
160-plus cemeteries in Clayton County.
*Published two editions of the Clayton County Surname
Index, that has been placed in every Clayton County
library, IGS, and surrounding counties.
*Sponsored the Everton Publsihers Genealogical Workshop
in May 1986, with Gay and Albert Kowallis of Utah, an
audience of 86 persons.
*Held the "first" northeast Iowa Regional
Genealogical Society Seminar, November 1987,with
Professor Eldon Knuth of California. Over 200 people
attended.
*Organized a Cemetery Preservation Slide Show in
September 1989, presented by Paul Maddy. Approximately
200 people were present.
*Held a seminar by Prof. Eldon Knuth, on the verification
of Karl Wiedow as Jurnjakob Swehn regarding the infamous
German letters from Iowa farmers to J. Gillhoff, teacher
of Glaisin, Mecklenburg. At Clayton Center, 1997. We
hosted 3 photographers from Mecklenburg (Germany) area at
this seminar, displaying their photos.
*Hosted Udo Baarch, President of the Gilloff Society of
Glaisin, Mecklenburg at an open house in Monona 1998.
*Held the “first” northeast Iowa Region 3
Genealogical meeting, August 2000. Hosted a book signing
for translator Richard Trost of the infamous Jurnjakob
Swehn, der Amerikafahrer book. Now available in English
for the first time, Letters of a German American Farmer.
*Formed a Clayton County Cemetery Restoration Committee.
Volunteers help to restore cemeteries.
*Northeast Iowa Civil War presentation - Clayton County
Civil War Soldiers of the 21st Regiment - by Carl
Ingwalson Jr. of San Diego, California, October 2017.
After you've browsed our
website, please visit the Clayton co. IAGenWeb for lots of research data.
Note: the Clayton County Genealogy Society & Clayton co.
IAGenWeb are not affiliated.
Page updated 11/08/2017 by sgf