Challenge Lesson 9: Ancestry Library, Heritage Quest, & Sandborn Maps

1. I search for my maiden name in the Ancestry Library and I found just one result which stated my name, my parents names, and the year and county in Minnesota I was born in. I tried to find a marriage licence for myself but I couldn't find one.

2. I search my grandpa, my mothers father, and found a few public records that came up. I tried to click in to them to view the files but they all said index record only. The result did list his name, birth date, where he was born, and the date and place where he died. I found another result that was supposed to show a military document of from when he was in World War II but I could not get that to pull up either. The result did list what War he was in, his position, and where his grave site is in a veterans cemetery in North Dakota.

3. I found a picture of a team of professional baseball players on a Detroit team. One of the players, Raleigh Aitchison was born in 1887 in South Dakota. Along with a picture, I was also given his birth date/place, death date/place, height, weight, date of his first game, date of his final game, which way he bats, and throws.

4. I clicked on directories and then publications and typed South Dakota into the location bar. One of the results that came up was called "A Brief History of South Dakota." I clicked into it and it was a book with many chapters on important events that took place in South Dakota including some information on when Lewis and Clark traveled through.

5. I searched Centerville, SD and found a map of the town from May of 1904. It was kind of hard to read and navigate because a lot of it was hand written but I found one building that was the post office at this time and is now still used as the Senior Citizens Center. I thought it was really cool to see where everything was back then and how it differs from today.