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.