For questions about ancestors and records in the US state of Iowa, including questions pertaining to the period before the state's admission to the US (1846) when it was part of a French colony, later Spanish, and then an American territory.
Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwest, originally part of the Louisiana Purchase. The territory was established in July 4, 1838; Iowa became the 29th state in the Union on December 28, 1846.