Lesson 9

Lesson 9 History and Genealogy resources

1. Under my own name in Ancestry.com I found phone book references to myself and underneath some  ‘possible relations’. A few of them I know, although the birth date category was at least 5 years off on them.

2. I was able to locate my grandfather and his siblings in the census, as well as my grandparents wedding certificate.

3. The only screen that I could just put in South Dakota in the search box with no other terms was under the advanced search. Using the picture link on the left side I was left with many baseball references and some yearbook pictures.

4. Heritage quest. I searched for my grandfathers’ name. I know the family is from the east coast and I know that someone had a book made with the family history going back to England and Scotland, I wondered if some one had submitted it for heritage quest but I am not sure of the name. I did find not find the book I was looking for but I did find another that may have been written by a relative, the first name was Chester which was a common name in our family, but I am not sure how common it might have been at that time period. The book I located was about the history of their town, not the family.

5. Sanborn maps is a great resource. I tried looking for the location of our school; this could be used for a map lesson or SD history to show the progress of our town by showing how just a few years ago our school and most of their homes were fields. I also looked up maps of our family land.  It was interesting to see the patchwork of where various family members own the plots and where the old buildings were located, most were gone but at least 1 house is still standing.