St. Clair Co Illinois IL genealogy directory history Prairie Farmer's CD

Description

Prairie Farmer's Directory of Farmers and Breeders
St. Clair & Monroe Counties Illinois
Originally published Prairie Farmer Publishing Company, Chicago IL, 1919, 323 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.
Silo Directory
Articles on farming.
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?
Monroe county is in southwestern Illinois and is surrounded by St. Clair County, Randolph County, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Jefferson County, Missouri and St. Louis County, Missouri. The county seat is Waterloo. Other towns include Columbia, Fults, Hecker, Maeystown, Valmeyer, Ames, Burksville, Burksville Station, Chaflin Bridge, Foster Pond, Fountain, Harrisonville, Madonnaville, Merrimac, Monroe City, New Hanover, Renault, St. Joe, Tipton and Wartburg.
St. Clair county is in southwestern Illinois and is surrounded by Madison County, Clinton County, Washington County, Randolph County, Monroe County, St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis County. The county seat is Belleville. Other towns are Alorton, Belleville, Brooklyn, Cahokia, Caseyville, Centreville, Collinsville (southern part), Dupo, East Carondelet, East St. Louis, Fairview Heights, Fayetteville, Freeburg, Lebanon, Lenzburg, Marissa, Mascoutah, Millstadt, New Athens, O'Fallon, Sauget, Scott AFB, Shiloh, Smithton, St. Libory, Summerfield, Swansea and Washington Park.
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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