History and Genealogy Resources—Ancestry Library, Heritage Quest and Sanborn Maps -
After searching my married name, I found one listing. It was me!! When I searched my maiden name, I did not find me, but found people with my name in almost every state.
When I searched my Grandmother, I found her in a 1930 census and her marriage license. All info was correct.
Apparently there are alot of listings with the location as South Dakotan - 3 billion!! And alot of pictures also. I found mostly yearbook pictures and some sports pictures. Loved the feature though. As I clicked on the picture you can zoom in and out and it also lists the links for others in the picture. Cool!! This will help someone looking for how people are linked. I know several classes do different genealogy projects and this will be an amazing help!
With HeritageQuest I searched for my name on my Mother's side - Valnes. They have done extensive research for this name and have all names dated back to 1200, so I was impressed to see names in all the census dates and most were all names on my ancestry list and were listed as being born in Norway. Just searching for a place was a little bit harder - only because I wasn't sure what to search for. I searched my hometown of Waubay and found a piece written on descendants of someone who had lived in Waubay. I did not know the name, but the piece was quite interesting to read. Once again, history buffs or people doing any geneology will find this tool useful!
Sanborn Maps - Unfortunately my town or several town that I'm familiar with were not in there - Waubay, Hazel, Hayti, Lake Norden, Bryant - but I did select Webster. I wasn't able to really figure out if some of the buildings are still there - Main Street seemed to be familiar, but it's been 20 years since I've been there. I had fun looking at the Watertown maps, but I hate to say that they are the absolute easiest to navigate. If I were looking for something, I would probably have more patience, but to just guess and click on a map and try to figure out where you are in the town was kind of hard. Glad to have it as an option though!!
Good work, Hamlin! Wow, to have family records back to 1200!! This is a good one for history & genealogy. You can also look up famous people, such as Charles Ingalls and see the name of the people we know from Laura's stories! Have fun with this, and thanks for your comments.
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