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From: "Jen in AZ" <>
Subject: Re: Illinois to Iowa
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 16:36:32 -0700
References: <004301c251d1$4df0b2f0$9e5d98d1@phil>


I had also read..it might have been on this list, land in the Midwest was
extremely cheap. I guess for the right price & I was in farming, I would
make the move too.
Best Regards,
Jen in AZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phyllis A. Heller" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 9:04 AM
Subject: Illinois to Iowa


> Peg,
> I do not know where in Illinois your ancestors came from to Iowa.
> But my dads family came from Jo Daviess County, Illinois. I believe the
rich
> fertile soil of Western Iowa drew them from Jo Daviess County, Illinois
> In Jo Daveiss County it is very rough farm ground and was at one time a
lead
> mining area. I have found many people from Illinois came to this part of
Iowa.
> Also a lot of my mother's family that settled in Jo Daviess County,
Illinois
> and Dubuque, Iowa came to this area of Iowa as well.
>
> Phyllis
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob & Peg" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 9:19 AM
> Subject: Re: 1850 US Federal Census question
>
>
> > hank-you to all who have responded. Some say Iowa and some think
possibly
> > Louisiana. I am just going to have to investigate further.
> > I have found many records (of my Illinois ancestors & their collateral
> > lines) left behind point to Ia. At the moment I am leaning toward Iowa
but
> > know I have read somewhere that these abbreviations meant different
things
> > over the years.
> > I wonder what might have caused so many in Illinois to go to Ia (I think
> > Iowa) during the period of 1860-1875? Many later returned to Illinois.
And
> > yet again, many who were from Ia (not necessarily related to each other)
> > came to Illinois and stayed. That is what makes family history
interesting
> > to me, the "why & how". The story behind the names!
> > Regards,
> > Peggy
> > who often wonders "why did my ancestors do that?"
> >
> >
>
> ______________________________


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