Reference Challenge - Week #9 - History and Genealogy Resources - Ancestry Library, Heritage Quest, & Sanborn Maps

Ooh look!!!! I am on week 9!!!! And it's only like week 12! I am so good at this!

1. Ancestry Library

I get to look up myself. Should I be pleased or frightened? THAT is the true question here.....

Oh look, another to do tomorrow! Sounds good. While we wait for that, have some HTTYD2 and Hiccstrid. (I did kind of mention that this was a bit of a fandom blog as well, right?)

Gif courtesy of ARTYSK (Sophie) on deviantART

Update!
In the library, and it's still quiet. So, let's continue on.

Looking up myself. Oh, look. There is nothing. Lots of other Monnens out there, but not me. Granted, I don't own land, not married, and haven't died. Yay me!

.....Shayna's blog will return after these brief messages......

2. I decided to look up my grandfather, Albert A. Schamens who I was quite close to. Very cool that I can see his and my grandmother's marriage license. And there he is, listed as a 16 year son in the 1940 Census. Its been 74 years, so there it is! Not much else is available.

Side note: how does one report to Ancestry Library that a name is spelled wrong? It lists my grandmother at Doris Ketlwig, when it was actually Kettwig. 

.....Shayna's blog will return after these brief messages......

3. South Dakota search equates to 5000+ pictures. Wow! In fact, there are 221 million! Kinda fun, I found an image from a 1924 Spearfish Yearbook that has a memorium for Mr. Fayette Cook, the husband of Wenona Culbertson Cook, who in turn has a dorm at BHSU named after her. I love the pan feature!!! So handy. Interesting finds!

4. Heritage Quest 

I hate to say this, but I am coming up with a whole lot nothing. Ok, not "nothing" exactly, but more like not related at all. I tried searching my hometown of Hazel, SD, some family names, ever surnames, but nothing that is at all relevant. 

5. Sanborn Maps 

Sad day, nothing for my hometown. There is however something for the town I graduated from. Oh, Henry, SD. How small you are...

Interesting!!!! My brother had built a house in Henry, and it is located where the livery used to be in 1893! No mystery as to why we found some old horseshoes when we were pouring his garage floor! However, by 1904 it had become a 170 gallon holding tank for gasoline. Sometime between 1898 and 1904, horses became obsolete. It was a dark time for humanity....  

Panning around the map, nothing is the same. The only building in town that is I think the original is the PO building, but it wasn't the post then. It is an insurance office. Maybe its not even the same building. The locations are still the same, the elevator, the bank, the churches, but I do not believe there are any other original buildings.

That is seriously cool about my brother's home. I will need to make sure to let him know about that.