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Founded in 1965, the Iowa Genealogical Society (IGS) is a non-profit educational organization which seeks to encourage genealogical and historical research by:

• maintaining an extensive research library (open to the public for a fee),

• keeping members informed of IGS activities, resources, and pursuits through a bimonthly newsletter, and a publication entitled the "Hawkeye Heritage",

• sponsoring an annual state conference, as well as conducting classes and workshops to assist and encourage those interested in or already actively researching history through genealogy, and,

• publishing collections of genealogically-related records, in cooperation with county chapters, including census, church, marriage, birth, deaths, cemetery, naturalization, probate, wills, & newspaper extractions.