Lesson 9

Ancestry Library

1. For finding the sister ships of the Titanic, I went into the advanced search and typed in a keyword search for "Titanic Sister Ship."  I then selected the Ship Pictures and Descriptions category. I came up with 3 results with pictures and descriptions: The Titanic, The Majestic which was actually a replacement ship for the Titanic, and the Olympic which was a sister ship.  I googled sister ships for the Titanic to double check and came up with the Olympic and the Britannic. However when searching on Ancestry I could not verify that the Britannic was the sister ship so conflicting information there.

For the Hindenburg search, I again went into the advanced search and searched for Hindenburg. On the left I limited the search to Newspapers and Publications, so 436 results. I  selected the tab at the top for categories and noticed they were arrange by dates. I selected the time period for 1937 and had it limited to 42 results. I scrolled through the results. Many of these were images from newspapers of survivors, testimony, etc.

Heritage Quest

I searched in heritage quest for Lac Qui Parle County, MN, where I grew up.  I searched books, census and the Persi for places. I had many results of interest. There were books about the Sioux or Dakota Uprising and I recognized many names in the census. In the Persi there appeared to be many results of interest, but it seems you have to request the article in order see it?  Anyway, only the citations appeared. There were many on the school district and Indian Mission but again just the citation for it, not the actual article.