Wow! I put my name in the search and there were 3 results that were me. The "wow" was that there was an area to click on neighbors. It listed several of the people in the neighborhood, along with spouses, phone number and years resided.
The family history part of this exercise is very interesting to me. I wish I could access this from home since I'm 45 miles away from the school/library. I am not very familiar with much of my family and I would love to get more info. My half-brother just told me the other day that he is doing some research on family history. He has been using Ancestry.com which I'm guessing is the commercial version of this. He has much of his mother's side of the family traced pretty far back but our Dad's side, not so much...yet!
I found my maternal grandmother and grandfather. There was more info on my grandfather than grandmother. I believe that I found my maternal great grandparents. There were from Puerto Rico. Neither had attended any schooling but they knew how to read and write. I found that out from the records I was able to access. Very interesting. I need to get more info from my parents about our familly in order to do more research.
When searching South Dakota in photos and maps, which took me a minute to figure out, I found many photos of people and buildings. I don't recall the number of results but it was lots.
I hope that I am able to complete all of this before the time is up, considering the distance I have to the school. Eeek!
Hi, Jenn. You made some good finds in AncestryLibrary. And it's nice to have someone in the family who has already done a lot of work. The commercial version has more "share" and networking features than this library version, but the information is all the same. Thanks for your comments.
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