For genealogical requests click on the link below:

Genealogy Requests


Requests are handled by our volunteers and a nominal fee is charged.

The Genealogy Room is located on the 2^nd floor of the library. The collection contains a wide variety of materials, mostly dedicated to the history of the City of Oskaloosa, Mahaska County and surrounding counties and Iowa in general. There are local history and family history books as well as old city directories, phone books and high school annuals. You will also find cemetery records for all of Mahaska County and some indexing. There are, of course, genealogy books to help you get started tracing your ancestry and family tree. Other materials of interest include Iowa periodicals, such as Annals of Iowa, The Iowan, Iowa Heritage Illustrated (previously known as Palimpsest) and Everton's Genealogical Helper. DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) lineage books are also available.

The library has two microfilm readers with a printer attached. Our microfilm collection includes early Oskaloosa newspapers beginning around 1850, and federal and state census records for Mahaska County. Some of these are searchable on CD-ROM. The library offers on-site access to Ancestry.com and HeritageQuest. HeritageQuest is also available for use from your home computer.