Ida County, Iowa Genealogy

United States Iowa  Ida County

Guide to Ida County Iowa ancestry, family history, and genealogy research page. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Parent County
1851--Ida County was created 15 January 1851 from unorganized territory. It was attached to Woodbury County prior to organization 1 January 1859. County seat: Ida Grove

Record Loss
January 12, 1877 -- Courthouse burned and many records were damaged.

For further information on researching in burned counties, see the following:


 * Burned Counties Research in FamilySearch Wiki
 * Michael John Neill, Burned Counties in Family History Circle

Places/Localities
Town/city records in the FamilySearch Catalog

Neighboring Counties
Buena Vista • Cherokee • Crawford • Monona • Sac • Woodbury

Lutheran

 * Records of the St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Holstein, in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).

Local Histories

 * Moorehead, G. C. Historical collections of Ida County. [S.l.] : Pioneer Record Press, 1928, 1975 printing.
 * https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1667599 FamilySearch] (Free)

Newspapers
NewspaperArchive.com ($) has a large collection of digitized Iowa newspapers online. This database is sometimes free at libraries.