DeKalb Co Illinois Sycamore IL genealogy directory history Prairie Farmer's CD

Description

Prairie Farmer's Reliable Directory of Farmers and Breeders
DeKalb County Illinois
Originally published Prairie Farmer Publishing Company, Chicago IL, 1917, 178 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.
Photos of the area.
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DeKalb county is located in northern Illinois and is surrounded by Ogle, Lee, LaSalle, Kendall, Kane, McHenry & Boone counties. The county seat is Sycamore and other towns are Cortland, DeKalb, Esmond, Fairdale, Genoa, Kingston, Kirkland, Lee, Malta, Sandwich, Shabbona, Somonauk, and Waterman.
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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