State officials started the process of closing the State Historical Research Center in Iowa City last summer and a bill that’s cleared a Senate subcommittee would give the Iowa Department of Administrative Services authority to shut it down for good on June 30....
The State Historical Society of Iowa is renewing its partnership with Ancestry.com that will broaden public access to millions of archival documents at no cost to the state’s taxpayers. Tony Jahn, the state archivist and the historical society’s library...