AncestryLibrary

SD Library Research Blog Ancestry.com I searched for my name and my maiden name: nothing. I searched my husbands name and was able to find previous addresses, it said this came from school records or church directories, but when I looked into the articles I couldn’t get a definite artifact. I tried to look up my great grandmother and grandparents, I couldn’t find information on any of them. My grandfather was in the military, so I really thought I would find something on him. When I searched “South Dakota,” I looked for pictures and saw pictures of baseball teams. And then I saw pictures that were labeled “yearbook” but they seemed to be written documents. Heritage Quest I looked at HeritageQuest and found it very hard to use. I wasn’t sure what I was searching for, but I selected Revolutionary War and searched “Virginia.” There was a list of names and I could click on the name to see the document right away. I liked seeing the document, but the ones I looked at were not clearly labeled. I saw a piece of paper with a name written on it. I had no idea what the name was for. Sanborn Maps I looked up Brookings, SD, February 1928. I was able to find the “State College and Agricultural School.” This was not at all a surprise. I also looked at Vermillion and was able to find the HUGE post office downtown. ~Common Core~ 11-12.RH.9 Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources. Looking up census data and military data from AncestryLibrary would be helpful in the social studies classroom. We would be able to use these databases to compare names and dates.