Thursday, March 28, 2013

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


1.  Using Titanic as a keyword in the Passenger and Ships database brought 6 results including photographs. The description of the Olympic mentioned it being a sister ship of the Titanic.

2.  Using the phrase “The Hindenburg”, eliminated many articles not related to the airship disaster.
The Stars and Stripes newspaper had several articles concerning the crash. Two that caught my attention were one about a survivor of the crash and another about the builder of the Zeppelin airships.

3.  For general historical information about Minnehaha County I chose to search Books. I clicked on Places and typed in “Minnehaha County”. The first two items in the results were books specifically concerning the history of Minnehaha County. PERSI can also be used to search for county information, however, this is an index and not full-text articles. I chose “History” for the record type. The results included more individual stories happening in the county and in Sioux Falls.

1 comment:

Fabric and Books said...

Thanks for the great post! Your search tactic of using double quotes around "the Hindenburg" was a great idea. It really narrows down the result set.

You found super info about Minnehaha County too!

Thanks,

Julie