Lesson 10. Wrap Up.



1. There was no one biggest surprise for me here there were many. I completely enjoyed this challenge and I learned many things that I was not aware of before. I believe it will help me with my job as a Reference Librarian, with access to so many tools that I was unaware of before.

2. I will use or promote these resources with anyone who will listen. I know that many of the students will benefit from my knowledge that I have received by taking this challenge.

Lesson 9. History and Genealogy Resources Ancestry Library, Heritage Quest, and Sanborn Maps.



1. I found three entries under my name the number one was a U. S. Public Record Index. It gave my name, my birth date, and addresses where I had lived. The other two were U. S. Phone and Address directories and that gave name, address, city, state, zip code, phone number, and the residence number of years.

2. I found a 1930 U. S. Census Record of my Great Grandfather, my Grandfather was five years old at the time. It was from the McNeely, Tripp, South Dakota. It said that my Great Grandfather Harry rented the house at that time, he was a farmer born in Iowa, his Father birthplace was in Germany. He nor my Great Grandmother had any education, but both could read, write and speak English. It gave their current age at the time and the age in which they married, and it lists four children at that time, they ended up with seven,
my Grandfather was was five and the youngest at that time.

3. There are a vast amount of  results by just typing in South Dakota, a few that I found interesting were the Professional Baseball players, 1876-2004, that hail from South Dakota.
I also enjoyed the School Yearbooks, but I think my favorite was the South Dakota Family Photo Collection.

4. This time I did a search for my Dad's, Dad. Under the 1940 Census result it gave me his Surname, Given Name, Age, Sex, Race, Birthplace, State, County, Location and Year.

5. I looked at a Rapid City may the first one to be indexed was in August 1887. The first building I recognized was on the corner of Main and Sixth Street, at that time the building was called The International Hotel. Today is is known as the Alex Johnson Hotel, and it has been since 1928.

Lesson 8. WorldCat,  CAMIO and More


1. Accession number, Author, ISBN, ISSN, Journal Source, Subject, and Title.

2. 2,651 have the book worldwide, S.D.S.M. & T. Devereaux Library it lists as the library nearest to you that has the specific book I was searching for.

3.We have 79 books written by James Patterson, with the subject of Female Friendship, Monte Carlo,
Monaco, Americans, and False Imprisonment.

4. When I searched in OAIster and typed is South Dakota in the keyword box, there were
13,719 search results of course you can refine your search results by adding a specific title, author, year, and by using an ISBN Number. I chose a Annual Report from State Department of Health Tuberculosis Control Program, upon opening this program I found the availability of the report the Author,, Frequency, Description, Language, and Access, which by the way was in PDF Form which makes viewing the report easy. After access there were subject headings. All and  all a very nice database.