{"id":2681,"date":"2016-05-03T18:55:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T18:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2016-05-03T19:02:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T19:02:06","slug":"chickens-eggs-and-supplies-for-sale-in-the-1920s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2681","title":{"rendered":"Chickens, Eggs, and Supplies for Sale in the 1920s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"chicken-tena-ufles\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Daddy hated chicken because he ate so much of it when he was a kid.”<\/p>\n

I had almost forgotten Mom mentioning Granddad Ufkes’ dislike for chicken until I read several 1920-era references to his parents in the\u00a0Hancock County <\/em>[Illinois]\u00a0Farm Bureau Bulletin<\/em> in\u00a0GoogleBooks<\/em>. Granddad’s parents, Fred and Tena Ufkes, have several notices where they are selling chickens, eggs, or egg-raising equipment.<\/p>\n

Born in 1917, Granddad would have been a young child at the time some of these ads appeared. By the mid-1920s, he was probably old enough to be tired of eating chicken.
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Illinois farmers raising chickens in Illinois in the 1920s was a common practice, even if the eggs were not always sold in large quantities. The discovery was not a newsflash to me, but the items were interesting to locate.<\/p>\n

This journal, and others that are\u00a0also\u00a0occupational in nature,\u00a0 might not always provide grand revelations, but they could document a person’s residence in a specific location at a certain point in time or indicate that a person was still actively engaged in the occupation at a specific time. Whether facts located in materials of this type are germane or provide significant clues simply depends upon the problem. At the very least they\u00a0often provide a little background, even if there’s not a family story that can be intertwined with the references.<\/p>\n

And like always, there’s a few lessons to be learned in these items that are bigger than a few chicks and eight-month old pullets<\/p>\n

Women may be mentioned in publications in such a way that their name is never used–great-grandma is styled as “Mrs. Fred Ufkes.” \u00a0I did not see a reference to her as Tena Ufkes and most references to females in the\u00a0Bulletin<\/em> were as “Mrs. Husband’s Name.”\"fred-ufkes2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I also should determine just how complete the run of\u00a0Bulletins<\/em> is on\u00a0GoogleBooks <\/em>if I need to search them in a systematic fashion. I suspect the series has not been completely digitized. Determining who has the originals may assist me in locating additional copies. Print materials that are scanned by\u00a0GoogleBooks<\/em> often are stamped by the original facility holding the materials. In some cases a mailing address may still remain on the item. These can both be clues in determining where additional materials may be located. A search on WorldCat<\/a><\/em> is also suggested.<\/p>\n

Three of my sets of great-grandparents were living and farming in Hancock County, Illinois, during the 1920s when these newsletters were published. The Ufkeses are the only ones who are mentioned.<\/p>\n

The story was that my great-grandfather Habben could not stand two things: the Farm Bureau and a United States president that I won’t name here. His name not appearing in these magazines does not surprise me. However, since I don’t have any passed down information about how my great-grandfather felt about the Farm Bureau, there’s no real way I can draw a similar conclusion about how he felt about Farm Bureau. There’s a variety of other reasons why his name isn’t mentioned.<\/p>\n

Sometimes one can’t draw any conclusions from a person’s omission from a source.\"chickens\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Daddy hated chicken because he ate so much of it when he was a kid.” I had almost forgotten Mom mentioning Granddad Ufkes’ dislike for chicken until I read several 1920-era references to his parents in the\u00a0Hancock County [Illinois]\u00a0Farm Bureau Bulletin in\u00a0GoogleBooks. Granddad’s parents, Fred and Tena Ufkes, have several notices where they are selling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,209],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fred-ufkes","tag-trientje-maria-janssen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}