Moultrie Piatt Co Illinois IL genealogy farmer directory Prairie Farmer's CD

Description

Prairie Farmer's Reliable Directory of Farmers and Breeders
Moultrie & Piatt Counties Illinois
Originally published Prairie Farmer Publishing Company, Chicago IL, 1917, 221 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 he farms, if he owns or rents the land and the year he moved to the county. Often this is the year the farmer was born.
Ads
for banks, auto dealers, furniture stores, lumber companys, hardware stores, drug stores, clothiers, livestock dealers, doctors and more. Some of the ads are illustrated with photos.
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.
Do you need to know how to adjust your plow, care for horses, judge your tractor horsepower or mark your litter? The info is contained in the book.
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Moultrie county is in central Illinois and the county seat is Sullivan. Other towns are Allenville, Arthur, Bethany, Dalton City, Gays and Lovington.
Piatt county is in central Illinois and the county seat is Monticello. Other towns are Atwood, Bement, Cerro Gordo, Cisco, De Land, Hammond, Galesville, La Place, Lodge, Milmine, Pierson Station and White Heath.
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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Rachal Mills Lennon
Softbound volume totaling
156
pages. Book is in new condition. Just what you need for genealogy research.
Stories about Indian ancestors in the family tree are common among both black and white families whose roots go deep into the American Southeast, especially those with links to the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole (the Five Civilized Tribes). If the accounts of family elders can be believed, those ancestors lived in the not-too-distant past. Yet despite the strength of family convictions--and the prized portraits of forebears whose features suggest Indian heritage--most researchers who pursue these traditions feel they are chasing a phantom.
Tracing Ancestors Among the Five Civilized Tribes
is designed to eliminate speculation and help you determine the truth about your Indian ancestry. It focuses on the toughest period to research--the century or so prior to the removal of the Southeastern nations to Indian Territory, the point at which records were regularly maintained. It provides the cultural, genealogical, and historical background needed to turn family stories into proved lineages. And it outlines a method of research that can carry you from the colonial period to the great tribal rolls of the mid-to-late nineteenth century, using the unique records kept by American, English, French, and Spanish governments.
THE AUTHOR
Rachal Mills Lennon traces nineteen branches of her family tree through five North American Indian tribes, although one of her more intriguing ancestors--the "Choctaw Princess" of family lore--remains a shadow among the pines at Dancing Rabbit Creek. She has been a Certified Genealogical Records Specialist since 1985 and is the author, editor, and compiler of five books, including Some Southern Balls and Florida's Unfortunates, as well as Southeastern ethnic case studies in the major genealogical periodicals.
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