The Independence Public Library has a few resources about local community and county history available for your perusal, but passes all requests for information on deceased individuals or family genealogy to the Buchanan County Genealogical Society.  The genealogical society has such things as obituary files, newspapers, census records, probates, marriage indexes, birth records, cemetery files and records, etc.  To contact the Buchanan County Genealogical Society:

Located in basement of Independence City Hall at 331 1st St. East (use side entrance of City Hall and go downstairs).

103 4th Ave. SE
Po Box 4
Independence, IA. 50644-0004
Phone (319) 334-9333

Hours:

Monday 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Thursday  4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Research may be done by visiting the genealogical library or by mail.  Fees are $10.00 per hour to do research and $.30 per copy.

There are also links to online genealogy resources the "Do Research" section of our website.