The following links lead to pages with aerial photo images of the farms and homesteads of the Farley, Geldermann, Hass, Lass, McGuire, O'Connor, and Ranschau families. The public domain images were provided free of charge by the US Geological Survey and by Microsoft's Terraserver. All aerial and map images are courtesy of the US Geological Survey.
Although most of the farms have many similarities (size, shape, etc.), many contain unique physical features (creeks, railroads, etc) which date back to the pioneer days when many of the settlers lived on these farms. Some of these features sometimes played important roles in the family histories. Since all of the photos were taken during the late 1990's, they also reveal many of the changes which have occurred on some of these areas of land (ex: annexation and development by adjacent towns) since pioneer times.
Sioux County, Iowa
Union County, South Dakota
A special thanks goes to the USGS and Microsoft's Terraserver for the free use of these images on this web site. The web page listing the policy on free use of USGS images can be found by clicking here.