Coles Co Charleston Illinois genealogy history directory Prairie Farmer's CD

Description

Prairie Farmer's Directory of Farmers and Breeders
Cole & Douglas Counties Illinois
Originally published Prairie Farmer Publishing Company, Chicago IL, 1918, 235 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.
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?
Town photos
Coles county is in east central Illinois and is surrounded by Douglas, Edgar, Clarke, Cumberland, Shelby and Moultrie counties. The county seat is Charleston. Other towns include Ashmore, Bushton, Cook Mills, Doran, Fairgrange, Humboldt, Lerna, Loxa, Mattoon, Oakland, Rardin and Trilla.
Douglas county is in east central Illinois and is surrounded by Coles Edgar, Champaign, Piatt and Moultrie counties. The county seat is Tuscola. Other towns include Arcola, Arthur, Chesterville, Fairland, Garrett, Hayes, Hindsboro, Kemp, Murdock, Newman and Villa Grove.
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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