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From: "Sandy & Jerry Childs" <>
Subject: Re: [IAGRUNDY] Grundy County, Stout and Dike
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 22:12:21 -0700
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I'm a transplanted Iowan now living in California, but was raised in Dike
for first 11 years of my life. I still return there for visits and research.
My grand uncle John H. McKinder was a barber in Dike beginning in 1902 and
his half-brother, Charley McKinder (my grandfather) joined him about 1917.
(Charley then worked in Waterloo for 20 years and then returned to Dike
until his retirement in 1970+).

Because of them and others, I've also been researching in Grundy Co. and
found that the County keeps the records up-to about 1925 when they were
moved to the State (Des Moines). So you have a good chance of finding this
information at the Grundy County Courthouse in Grundy Center. Now saying
this, I do know that even though record keeping was supposed to be law by
1880, the recording of births was a bit hit and miss. In another Iowa
county, where grandpa Charley was born, I found only two of the 6 children
registered! No Charley. I haven't written the State, but imagine something
would be filed on them because they would've needed proof established of
birth to draw Soc.Security.

I was dismayed that their is not a Grundy Co. Genealogical Society to go to
or any named volunteers who will look this up. But I found some vital
stats (death of my grand aunt) in a film rented via the LDS. Might be best
place to start. (Did you know that most towns have a LDS Family History
Center as a room in one of their Stake (aka Churches). If that doesn't
work, and unless someone on this list can help, then the only other way
would be to write the County Clerk's office at Grundy Center and ask them
for specific information -- and include a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

Grundy Center also has a library across the street from the County
Courthouse and they do have film of the newspapers (birth/deaths), but I
don't think they lend them out via inter-library loan(!). However, the Iowa
State Genealogical Society in DesMoines who will rent them out to you. They
have a website too which explains it all. Actually, the State Genealogical
Society is quite helpful and may have volunteers (paid or otherwise) who may
help you. They are super.

Hope this helps some. Good hunting. Sandy McKinder Childs in Calif.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Darlene Baltus" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 6:20 PM
Subject: [IAGRUNDY] Grundy County, Stout and Dike


> Hi, I am also looking for information that concerns Dike, Iowa. I am
> looking for a birth record of my father, Aldrich Edward Blom/Ole Blom who
> was born about 1891. I could not find anything in the Grundy Centre
> Courthouse. My uncle, Ben's birth was recorded in 1959. Supposedly the
> Blom family lived in the Ackley area-in the northern part of Grundy
> county/Hardin county. My father was married in Stout, Iowa in 1918. He
was
> listed on the 1895 census as having been born in Grundy County. He was not
> on the 1885 census for Grundy. Stout and Dike are not far apart.
> My question is how to locate birth records and anything during the time
> period between 1885 and 1895? Any help pointing me in the right direction
> is much appreciated.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "BriManson" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:20 PM
> Subject: [IAGRUNDY] PETERSEN: Dike, 1916-1972
>
>
> > Looking for information on my wife's grandparents. Mette Maria (Marie)
> > Schultz married Thorvald PETERSEN in Fredsville in June 1911. Thorvald
> was
> > a blacksmith who arrived in the United States from Draaby, Denmark in
> 1902.
> > He has worked with his brother-in-law Fred Sorensen in Cicero, Indiana
and
> > in Seattle. Marie was the daughter of Johan and Hansine Schultz who
had
> > lived in Cedar Falls as early as 1873. The family returned to Denmark
for
> > about 15 years before returning to Iowa (Fredsville).
> >
> > Thorvald took over the blacksmith shop in Dike about 1917. He operated
> the
> > blacksmith shop on the corner of State and Fourth Streets (one block
east
> of
> > the main Dike corner) from 1917 until retiring in 1957. Daughters Helen
> and
> > Vera were born in Cicero by 1914; son Earl Oakley was born in Dike about
> > 1921. The Petersens lived in Dike until Marie's death in 1972 (Thorvald
> > passed away in Dike in 1965).
> >
> >
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