Although most of my information and resources involve Fayette county, many of the families came through Clayton Co.   I have photographed the 1882 and 1916 Clayton Co. Histories, and the 1886 Clayton co. plat map. My photos are hosted online at 'Fotki'. All pictures can be downloaded free by clicking a thumbnail, opening a medium picture, clicking the 'get original uploaded photo' link under the medium picture to open the large version. Finally, right click the large photo and save it to your computer harddrive.

(added March 2008)

Raven Thomas
From Emperors to Peasants

Genealogy information from the Clayton Co., area including the surnames Alitz, Aulerich, Freitag, Grinnell, Homan, Hulbert, Kelpin, Kluth, Kruse, Rohn, Schmill, Siege, Stade, and Vogelsang.  I'd love to hear from fellow researchers and distant cousins to share notes.

(added February 2008)

Helen Jennings
Garber Iowa website

(added January 2008)

Jeff Faulstich
Bernau Genealogy

Genealogies of Carl & Caroline Ball, and William August & Wilhelmina Elizabeth (Ball) Bernau. The site includes many photos and documents.

Mike Ruddy
The Ruddy Family of Allamakee co. Iowa

Decendants of Daniel & Ann Ruddy lived in Fairview twp. Allamakee co. and Mendon twp. Clayton co. Iowa

Connie Couch
Connie Frith Couch's Genealogy

I have documented the Berks, Hoffmann & Schornagel families back to Germany.   My personal website has photos and German records, as well as personal data for these and other families. Click on my surname list, when you get to a particular person, click on scrapbook to view photos. Anton Berks & Anna Maria  Hoffmann were married in Clayton county and their first three children were born there.  Both of their parents also lived in Clayton county.  John Berks' other children: Henry, Gerhard and Anna were all married in Clayton county.  Sophia Berks' sister, Wilhelmina Amling, and her brothers John and Frank Schornagel also lived there.   Clicking on the thumbnails of pictures or documents will enlarge them.

example: In the surname list, click Berks, then Anton, etc. 

My entries at the Rootsweb WorldConnect project have a lot of information for Elkader families, especially for members of the St. Joseph church.

My ggg-grandfather Patrick Kielty came to Clayton County in 1855. He and my ggg-grandmother are buried in St Patricks, Monona, Iowa.

I am researching the surnames Plozel, Sudol & Pozar, all who seem to have descendants from Clayton County.  Visit my family website to view my family trees & photos!

Chad K. Flentje
Flentje and Daly Genealogy

Family history for many families, including obituries, newspaper articles and marriage announcements. Clayton co. surnames included on the website: Flentje, Loeseke, Aulwes, Becker, Bluecher, and Yambura.

I have many Speeds in NE Iowa and some in Clayton Co. Our Speeds came to Iowa (as did nearly 200,000 others) in 1854 - 1855. I have pictures on my website of the Speeds in Reed cemetery (Sperry twp)

In 1852 my great grandfather Andrew Engler married & moved to Garnavillo where he lived for two years before moving to the Cascade-Worthington, IA (Dubuque co.) area where he lived the remainder of his life.  When Andrew was in Garnavillo, he lived with John S. Engler. John's daughters married into the Anderson, Tonner and Troester families, some of who still live in Clayton Co. John's son, Charles, was a noted hardware store proprietor in Garnavillo. My website explains the Garnavillo connection & gives additional information on the Engler family. I am particularly interested in finding out who the parents of John and Andrew were.

My website focuses on the parents, siblings and various descendents of Wolfgang, John Blasius, Barbara (Schmidt) Hagensick, and Amelia (Schmidt) Schoch.  There are also 4 brothers who moved to the Lincoln, Nebraska area and then one of them on to Oklahoma. 

email contact: Tom@FullOfSchmidt.com

Susan's personal genealogy website includes a partial listing of St. Sebald cemetery burials, but more complete than the WPA records. She also has pictures of each headstone listed.

Matt Miller
Miller / Muller Family History

My Miller (Muller) family line has origins in Clayton County (Boardman Township).  The family was originally "Muller" and came from Luxembourg, I believe initially on August 8th, 1863. My genealogy web-site that has been recently updated with significant information on this family line. Click on Miller/ Muller from the index page for ancestry and descendant reports, ancestry trees, scanned copies of original vital records, as well as pictures of the Miller family taken in late 1800s and early 1900s.  I have information from the 1870 census listed on this family.    I have pictures of the gravestones of the Peter Miller household (including John Peter Miller) in St. Joseph's Cemetary in Elkader.  The Michael Miller family left for Westphalia, Iowa in the late 1800s.

Sue Nickum
"Monona Letters"

...a work in progress, called "Monona Letters". It contains a collection of letters written between 1877 and 1898. The principle parties are my great grandmother, Alice Grace Boyles Reynolds, her sister, Margaret Ann Boyles Blaisdell, and a third sister, Emma Helen Boyles Gray. There's no great historical significance in the letters, but they're chatty and gossipy and mention many, many people who lived in Monona during those years. Margaret Blaisdell was the great grandmother of my newly found distant relative, Mary Anne Love Blaisdell who did some brilliant research and found dozens of little snippets of information about many of those people, bringing Monona 1880 alive. Additionally, the letters tell a very loving, moving, and sad story. It occurs to me there might be information which other researchers would be pleased to find. And, conversely, other researchers might have information to share with me.

Sharyl Ferrall
Allamakee County Pioneers

Don't let the name of my website mislead you! I have several early Clayton co. families. I'm moving my website from Geocities, but it sure is taking me a long time! Please pardon my construction work!

Karen Muchow
Muchow's of Mecklenburg,Germany; Iowa, Minnesota & S.Dakota
This is a work in progress. I have quite a comprehensive tree covering the years 1777 in Mecklenburg, through emigraton and settlement in America up to the present.

Daniel Cooley
Cooley-Miller-Sears-Barnhouse Family Gedcom

Jan Kostle
Geneology of Kostle & Stoffregen families

Shelly McGovern Schmidt
McGovern Family Genealogy

Bev Bernhard
Time Traces: an eclectic compendium...
Clayton co. families are Bernhard, Darnell & allied families.
John A. Bernhard was an early settler in the village of Giard,Iowa.
Jan. 2008 - There is a notice on this site that it is temporarily down
for construction.

Edward Glover Dickens b. 1815 in Smith Co. TN and a lifelong resident of Clayton Co, Iowa. My records proving that Edward Glover Dickens of Clayton co. was a son of John Dickens Sr. of Smith County, TN.

Thomas Overbeck
Overbeck Family
Jan. 2008 - The URL of this website is no longer valid!
If you are the webmaster, please contact the Clayton co. Coordinator.
- The Descendants of the Averbeck Hof, Hiddinghausen, Germany -
The Sippe (Clan)