Thursday, September 9, 2010

AncestryLibrary, HeritageQuest, and Sanborn

AncestryLibrary

1. I did a search for my name but didn't find any records. I did find my mothers record and some cousins so I look at those.

2. I found my grandfather, John B. Buechler. He was in the 1930 census. It also has a list of the children which would include my mother. It tells where he was born and where they lived in 1930. When I clicked some of the links it said to contact an administrator to download Ancestry Image Viewer.

3. I found yearbook indexs, yearbooks, and family photos. There was 178,970 records. I could not get any yearbooks because it said to contact and administrator. It also had maps, gazateers, and atlas of the area. There was also 139,737 records so a lot to look through.

HeritageQuest


I did a search on Persi for Walworth County, South Dakota. I got 33 results. One of them of interest were the Missouri River Bridge at Mobridge. Neuglueckstahl cemetery which on part of the land what was owned by my grandfather and later my father. It was very close to where I grew up on a farm in Walworth County. It is too bad many of these articles are not online but they do give you the form to get the article. Interesting source if one is into the geneology.




Sanborn


I did my search for Bowdle, South Dakota in June 1921. I found the St. Augstine Catholic Church which is still there and in use today. I also found the school. The building that is shown there was torn down but before they did that a new school was built around it. So the school is still in the same place. To the north of the school is a house that my brother lives in which was built back in early 1900's that is also on the map.

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Central Library. Sorry you did not get to see the actual records in Ancestry. The screen about downloading the viewer is misleading, because right below that it says something like "to proceed without downloading the viewer, click here," which will allow you to see the actual record. You might like to go back in and try that. Hope you had fun in these resources. Thanks for your comments.

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