---------- > From: Kmann@ra.rockwell.com > To: ILSTEPHE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ILSTEPHE] Stephenson County, Illinois Farmer Directory, 1917 > Date: Friday, March 03, 2000 10:34 AM > > > > Just found the following. You can search for your surname interests. > > http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4371.htm > > Free Until > 3/13/00 > Search for: > > > Description: > Boasting a population of nearly 37,000 in 1917, Stephenson County, is located in northern Illinois. > In that same year there were nearly 3,000 farms in the county. This database is a list of farmers in > the county who cooperated with the Prairie Farmer Directory staff. It lists the farmer's name, > spouse (including maiden name), children, acreage, and year the farmer became a resident of the > county. It also indicates whether the farmer was a tenant, owner or farm hand. Additionally, it > reveals the post office and rural route of the farm, which may aid the researcher in obtaining land > records. It lists over 2,600 families and about 13,200 names. > > Extended Description: > > Source Information: > Bass, Cindy J., ed. 1917 Stephenson County, Illinois Prairie Farmer Directory. [database online] > Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 2000. Taken from the Prairie Farmers Reliable Directory. Chicago: > Prairie Farmers Publishing Co., 1917. > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/