Ancestry Library, Heritage Quest and Sanborn Maps

The first question had me stumped for a little while.  I did not know the name of the sister ship of the Titanic.  So I began my search under the collections tab.  I used the phrase given, “Ship Pictures and Descriptions” and this took me to the Immigration and Travel section.  On the right, I used the filter to find titanic but could not find the sister ship name.  I even searched Titanic sister ship with no results.  Hate to admit it, but I used Google to find the name of the sister ship which is Olympic.  After that I did the original search phrase and then selected Photos & Maps which gave me another search field.  I typed in Olympic and on the new page selected Passenger Ships and Images.  Out of the 3 images in this limiter, the Olympic was shown.  As I looked at the images, all three of them were built by White Star.  Possibly the third ship was another sister ship named, Brittanic.

 

I struggled a bit more with the second question which was to find information on the Hindenburg under Newspapers and Publications.   I started with the collections tab and then selected newspapers and publications.  This is where I became lost.  I dialed a friend and together we worked through my problem (thanks Peggy).  I had to then select, Search entire “Newspapers & Publications” category.  The next page also had me stumped a little.  The keyword box was near the bottom.  I think placing it closer to the first and last names may make it easier to find.  I typed in Hindenburg and searched.  With this I had 436 results.  Looking more closely, I noticed a tab for records and categories.  The records seemed to be photocopied typed subject card index which I think is just an organizational record.  When I selected the categories tab, the results were arranged by newspapers and publications.   I could open an image and view a scanned newspaper.  Within the article the search word was highlighted.  Most of the articles dealt with the person Hindenburg or the Hindenburg line. I needed to figure out how to find the airship. I went back to the search and included the year 1937, the year of the disaster.  I had a lot of results including the obituaries of those who died in that disaster.  My favorite results to look through were the scanned or photographed newspapers.

I began the last search in HeritageQuest by selecting Search PERSI Archive which can “Find information about people and places from this index of over 2.3 million genealogy and local history articles (1800-2009).”  I then chose Places, “Search for information about towns, cities or regions in periodical articles.”  I included the information, South Dakota and McPherson Country and included all types of records.  This netted me 61 results.  I searched the various records types and got 3 biography, 12 history and 1 census.  Not all records had results.  One item in biography, I was interested in, was about Long Lake where grandma lived for many years up until last year.  The other two were promising as well; County homesteaders and Pioneer days, 1884-.  In the history records were several results that are about Russian Germans which is my husbands entire family.  Many useful results.