IOWA 1885 STATE CENSUS INDEX POSTED AT FAMILYSEARCH.ORG
I see that an index to the 1885 Iowa State Census is now available for research at FamilySearch.org. It is from the State Historical Society of Iowa, and indexes 95 rolls of FHL microfilm. The census is made up of 503,573 records. A couple weeks ago, I featured State Censuses at FamilySearch in Genealogy Newsline, but this one wasn’t posted yet. Although it’s just an index, it is invaluable if you’ve got folks in Iowa in 1885. I did a search on the surname of Hinchey and got back results from two families.
