Rock Island Mercer IL Illinois genealogy history directory Prairie Farmer's CD

Description

Prairie Farmer's Reliable Directory of Farmers and Breeders
Mercer & Rock Island Counties Illinois
Originally published Prairie Farmer Publishing Company, Chicago IL, 1918, 326 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, Heider or maybe a Hart-Parr?
Articles on farming.
Mercer county is in west central Illinois and is surrounded by Rock Island, Henry, Knox, Warren and Henderson counties. The county seat is Aldeo. Other towns include Burgress, Cable, Joy, Keithsburg, Matherville, Millersburg, New Boston, New Windsor, North Henderson, Norwood, Preemption, Seaton, Sherrard and Viola
Rock Island county is in west central IL and is surrounded by Mercer, Henry and Whiteside counties. The county seat is Rock Island. Other towns include Buffalo Prairie, Carbon Cliff, Coal Valley, Cordova, East Moline, Edgington, Hampton, Hillsdale, Joslin, Milan, Moline, Osborn, Port Byron, Rapid City, Reynolds, Silvis and Taylor Ridge.
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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