bigpigeon.us webpage St. Paul's > St. Paul's Resources, updated by RAC 11 Feb 2020.
Print and web resources for those interested in researching the history of St. Paul's Lutheran Church.
Print and web resources for those interested in researching the history of St. Paul's Lutheran Church.
Commemorative Booklets:
Web Resources:
If you have access to ancestry.com, you can search portions of the St. Paul’s data or browse through all the St. Paul’s data thusly:
This is the ancestry.com index of the St. Paul's records:
IOWA: NEOLA: ST. PAUL’S
Membership Record Book #1, 1881-1900
Membership Record Book #2, 1900-1925
Membership Record Book #3, 1925-1969
Membership Record Book #4, 1970-1974
Minutes Books:
Original Records property of the Congregation. Microfilmed by the Archives of the American Lutheran Church at Dubuque, Iowa November 12, 1975.
- 1931 – St. Paul’s Church Jubilee Book, 1881 - 1931 (72 pages, Jubilee book committee P. W. I. Hansen, Peter Bondo, Elias Ericksen, Martin Christoffersen, James N. Lund).
- 1956 – St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Neola, Iowa, 75th Anniversary, 1881 - 1956 (24 pages)
- 1981 – St. Paul’s Lutheran, Neola, Iowa, Centennial, 1881 – 1981 (64 pages, contains birth, confirmation, marriage and death information. I was told that Rev. Neal Zeilinger played a major role in its production.
Web Resources:
- My St. Paul's reports available in the St. Paul’s area of my website, bigpigeon.us, are:
- This brief history.
- My reports on the early families of St. Paul's broken up into 43 extended families. I prepared these reports with the help of my second cousin, Elaine (Bondo) Hoyer, along with many other individuals.
- My brief biographical summaries of the lives of the young people of St. Paul's and the surrounding area who served in the Armed Forces during World War II.
- St. Paul's church records through 1940 or beyond are available via ancestry.com.
If you have access to ancestry.com, you can search portions of the St. Paul’s data or browse through all the St. Paul’s data thusly:
- First access search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=60722
- To search: In the Any Event row, enter neola, Pottawattamie, iowa. Then enter a name of interest. (Only part of the data is searchable.)
- To browse: In the upper right-hand corner, select Iowa, then select Neola, and then click on St. Paul’s. (Early records are in Danish.) You should get
This is the ancestry.com index of the St. Paul's records:
IOWA: NEOLA: ST. PAUL’S
Membership Record Book #1, 1881-1900
- Membership, 1881-1894 1-50
- Constitution 51-67
- Membership, 1895-1900 70-118
- Baptisms, 1889-1899 3-9
- Confirmations, 1889-1899 26-29
- Marriages, 1893-1899 40
- Funerals, 1889-1900 46
- Communions, 1886-1900 72-110
Membership Record Book #2, 1900-1925
- Baptisms, 1900-1925 1-18
- Confirmations, 1900-1923 34-40
- Marriages, 1901-1924 49-51
- Funerals, 1900-1924 57-61
- Communions, 1900-1924 not filmed
- Membership 91-100, 112-114
- Losses, 1902-1923 115-116
- Pastoral Journal, 1900-1924 123-145
Membership Record Book #3, 1925-1969
- Officers 4-6
- Membership 9-51
- Baptisms, 1925-1969 53-97
- Confirmations, 1925-1969 169-193
- Marriages, 1925-1968 221-233
- Funerals, 1925-1969 245-255
- Communions not filmed
- Pastoral Journal, 1925-1940 389-393
Membership Record Book #4, 1970-1974
- Constitution
- Pastors
- Membership
- Baptisms, 1970-1974
- Marriages, 1970-1974
- Funerals, 1970-1974
- History, 1970
Minutes Books:
- Minutes Book #1, included in pages of Membership Record Book #1
- Minutes Record Book #2, 1901-1915
- Minutes Record Book #3, 1916-1950
- Minutes Record Book #4, 1936-1966 (Church Council)
Original Records property of the Congregation. Microfilmed by the Archives of the American Lutheran Church at Dubuque, Iowa November 12, 1975.