BELGIUM-ROOTS Project USA Iowa (IA) Outline related to Belgian immigrants

Description

Territorial Subdivisions

Iowa is subdivided in about 108 counties.

Among them: Jasper, Poweshick, Scott, Shelby, Tama

A map of the County boundaries on this site or on U.S. Federal Census site

Three counties do have a population of Belgian origin that exceeds 0,6 % in 1990:

Jasper, Poweshick, and Tama

A map of the TAMA County

(by the Tiger mapping Service of the U.S. Federal Census Bureau)

Short History with Bibliography

Sources

• Original sources

  • Sources for the 19th and 20th centuries

    • The censi

      U.S. Federal Census 1990 - Iowa Profiles

      With clickable county map

      and an extract on this site

Repositories

• USGenWeb

  • IAGenWeb Digital Library

Societies

• USGenWeb

  • IAGenWeb Project
  • Interactive County map
  • On Line Communications

Migration / Emigration / Immigration

Families and Family Histories

Sciences

This web site is the collective work of the subscribers to the mail list BELGIUM-ROOTS-L founded June 1998 by Georges Picavet (see our members page and the copyrights page for more info) Q:\webbeta\rw_belgiumroots\usa\ia\index.html (br_usa_ia) This Global file was last updated 18/01/2007 23:48:39 CET and uploaded Thursday, 18-Jan-2007 16:15:02 MST