My great uncle, Harold A. Neff, who was born in Leaf River in 1897 and died in Rochelle in 1974, left a notebook with more than a thousand names and dates, the result of many years of genealogy work and just reading the newspapers and watching the obits for family members. I am his successor, as it were. Some of our Ogle County surnames are: Billig Boddiger Bowers Deppen Emrick Etnyre Fager Grove Ketterman Kimball McCoy McNett Neff Stoner Trump Woodcock Yeakle Mary S. Neff Montrose, NY