Kendall Grundy Co Illinois genealogy IL directory Prairie Farmer's CD

Description

Prairie Farmer's Reliable Directory of Farmers and Breeders
Grundy & Kendall Counties Illinois
Originally published Prairie Farmer Publishing Company, Chicago IL, 1917, 224 pp.
This is a reproduction on CD and is searchable.
Farm directories can be a gold mine of information for the genealogist. They contain:
Farmers Directory - This contains the name of farmer, spouse with her
maiden
name, name of children, how many acres farmed, owns or rents the land and the year farmer moved to the county. Often this is the year the farmer was born.
Ads
Breeders Directory - in order by type of livestock.
Business Directory - for each small town.
Automobile Owner's Directory - Find if your ancestor was a Ford, Maxwell, Overland or Studebaker fan.
Tractor Owner's Directory - was it a Case, Moline or maybe a Hart-Parr?
Articles on farming.
Photos of the area.
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Grundy county is located in northern Illinois and is surrounded by LaSalle, Kendall, Will, Kankaee, Livingston, counties. The county seat is Morris and other towns are Braceville, Carbon Hill, Coal City, Gardner, Kinsman, Mazon, Minokka, Stockdale, and Verona.
Kendall county is located in northern Illinois and is surrounded by Kane, Will, Grundy, LaSalle and DeKalb counties. The county seat is Yorkville and other towns are Bristrol, Lisbon, Mill Brook, Millington, Newark, Oswego, and Plano.
About the CD:
This CD provides the genealogist the opportunity to have access to information from a book that is difficult to locate in the used book market.   The CD was made by scanning an original copy of the book.  Any defect such as notes in the margin or light text will also appear in the CD version.  The CD requires  Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the file.  When viewing on your screen the page size can be increased to make reading easier.  This CD is searchable and has a series of bookmarks making navigation through the file easier.  The CD is packaged in a protective sleeve.
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