Ioway Cultural Institute : Genealogy :
Surnames and Researchers

While we do put up some historic documents such as historic Iowa tribal rolls and allotment lists, we do not put up family trees on the website in order to protect the privacy of living members. Someday we hope to establish a database for the use of tribal members but that is currently beyond our means. For now, we are supplying the following list of family names (or surnames) found on Iowa tribal rolls and documents. For some of these names we have members who are focusing on researching those names and family connections, and if they have agreed to be contacts, we have listed their names and emails.

Genealogy is not always totally accurate, but the researchers do the best they can with sometimes faulty or missing information; no guarantee is implied. None of us are professional genealogists but many have poured years of effort and are graciously willing to share what they can. If you are a tribal member researching one of these names and will agree to be a contact for other researchers of that name, please email me and let me know. More than one researcher can be listed for any name, as shared effort is the best and different people may know more about different branches. Names in bold have active researchers, listed afterwords. Some names have alternate spellings.

NOTE: Some surnames actually may be associated with other tribes originally, but descendants of that lineage are on Ioway rolls due to intermarriage between various tribes and the Ioway. For example, Deroin has Otoe lineage, Murphy and LeClere have Sac and Fox (actually Sauk) lineage, and Barada has Omaha lineage, as well as Ioway. Most Ioway descendants today have the bloodlines of several tribes in them.