Geneology Week 7

Discovery Exercise:

Create a blog posting discussing the following questions and other observations you have about Ancestry Library, Heritage Quest and Sanborn Maps. All resources can be accessed via this alphabetical list.

1. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to be dead to be listed in Ancestry Library and can frequently find useful information in the U.S. Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002. You may even find your marriage license. Search for your own name in Ancestry Library and report the results.

2.  In Ancestry Library, search for a grandparent or great-grandparent and see if you can locate them in the census.  Report your findings.

3.  In Ancestry Library, perform a search under the “Photos and Maps” tab for “Maine” as the keyword.  Report your findings.

I listened to the tutorials and found myself a little bit disappointed yet excited. I am a school teacher and do not have a local library open on a regular basis. So listening to the tutorials was very informative. It seems very intuitive to use Ancestry Library and I wish we had at our school library. My son in adopted and I have limited knowledge of his birthparents. I wold use this to search for him any information I could find. Ours is an open adoption in as much as it is agreed upon to allow him to search out his birthparents should he want to. I know names and location of birth and birthdates. It would enlighten him to have access to this more indepth database. I just may look into this option for him.

I know quite a bit about my own family tree and could verify much of the information. My sister compiled a scrapbook of family information for us one Christmas. I'd like to further investigate with possibly some updated information.