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From: "steve" <>
Subject: Fw: [B-W] half farmer?
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 23:21:20 -0400

Marcelyn,

According to Ernest Thode's German English Genealogical Dictionary, a half
farmer (Halbbauer) is a farmer on a half-sized farm (15 Morgen). A Morgen
is defined as, theoretically, the amount of land that one man and an ox can
plow in one morning.

Hope this helps.

Steve Aufderhar



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| Subject: [B-W] half farmer?
| Date: Thursday, September 05, 2002 5:28 PM
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| Hi,
| I think I found half farmer as an occupation. Is this like a
partnership?
| Was it for people too poor to own a whole farm? Who owned the other
half?
| Thank you,
| Marcelyn
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