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St. Paul's
bigpigeon.us webpage St. Paul's > St. Paul's Resources, updated by RAC 17 Apr 2021.

This webpage contains print and web resources specific to the history of St. Paul's Lutheran Church families. 
Go to my Resources Overview webarea for additional resources that I use in my research.


Commemorative Booklets:
  • 1931 – St. Paul’s Church Jubilee Book, 1881 - 1931 (72 pages, Jubilee book committee P. W. I. Hansen, Peter Bondo, Elias Ericksen, Martin Christoffersen, Rev. 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.)
Commentary - Commemorative Booklets:
  • Not thought to be available on-line. They should be available on-site at the Museum of Danish America's Genealogy Center in Elk Horn, IA and at the Danish American Archive and Library in Blair, NE.

My reports available in the St. Paul’s webarea include:
  • The early families of St. Paul's broken up into 43 extended families.  I prepared these reports with the help of my late second cousin, Elaine (Bondo) Hoyer, along with many other individuals. Access from St. Paul's > Early Families.
  • My other reports are listed on the St. Paul's webpage.

​On the web: St. Paul's congregational records through 1940 or beyond are available via ancestry.com. If you don’t have access to ancestry.com, you can view a paper copy of these records at the Danish American Archive and Library in Blair, Nebraska. Access the St. Paul's congregational records using ancestry.com thusly:

To search for a name:
  • First enter search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=60722
  • In the Any Event row, enter neola, pottawattamie, iowa. Then enter a name of interest. (Only part of the data is searchable.)
To browse the 481-page congregational records, enter https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/60722/images/41742_314161-00000?ssrc=&backlabel=Return

This is the ancestry.com index found on page 3 the St. Paul's congregational 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.​
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