Basic Discovery Exercise:
1. I searched my own name, " Elizabeth Colleen Wells," in AncestryLibrary and could not find myself. Apparently a lot of people share or have shared my name, though!
2. I looked up my Grandmother, Selma Ardith Busick, in AncestryLibrary, and there were several results in the U.S. Census: 1925, 1930, and 1940. She also came up under U.S. City Directories for 1946, 1954, 1957, 1958, and 1959; U.S. Phone and Address Directories: 1993-2002; and U.S. Social Security Death Index: 1994. It was interesting to see my Aunt Helen was one year old when my Grandmother was 19!
3. I looked at a "Bird's Eye View" of Sioux Falls in 1907. I also checked out a view of Des Moines in 1902, when my grandmother would have been living in Iowa.
4. I looked up "Grand Island, Nebraska," in HeritageQuest, where I spent 3rd grade through high school. It gave me 455 results. It looks like there are many records from the Stuhr Museum News, with Vol. 1, Issue 1, being in March of 1965!
5. In Sanborn Maps, I found Hawthorne Grade School on 4th and N. Duluth, under the Sioux Falls, Minnehaha Co. in the 1924-July 1950 category (sheet 20). This is an interesting resource, too!
Common Core Connections to Follow!
Hi, Elizabeth! Like most people, you made some fun discoveries! I think you like what you found here and saw the possibilities, based on the number of exclamation points used. :) Thanks for your work and comments here.
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