Week 8-Ancestry Library

Ancestry Library

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to be dead to be listed in Ancestry Library and can frequently find useful information in the U.S. Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002. You may even find your marriage license. Search for your own name in Ancestry Library and report the results.

After spending time figuring out how to get access to this, I finally broke down and requested a free trial. I had no problem finding my name when I searched using my maiden name. I was able to see my maiden name results and my marriage license with my married name. When I searched using just my married name I did not find myself at all. I was able to search for my husband’s name and found him no problem. I was only able to find public records for my husband, but I was able to see our Nevada marriage license and public records for myself. We are unlisted in the phone book. I wonder how much that has to do with it.

In Ancestry Library, search for a grandparent or great-grandparent and see if you can locate them in the census.  Report your findings.

I searched for my great-grandmother, Bertha Trebilcock, and was able to find all of her records from the 1930 and 1940 census list. It showed info about my great-grandfather (with a clickable link to his info) and info about her son (also with a clickable link to his info). It was really neat to see that information because it is such a “snapshot” in time. It even knew that her birth date was somewhere around 1896, though it did not have her actual certificate information. I did not know this but her son’s birth name was actually Clifford, not Edward (as we all knew him).

In Ancestry Library, perform a search under the “Photos and Maps” tab for “Maine” as the keyword.  Report your findings. This was hard to find and I actually called ancestry.com to find out how to find it. Once I found the right place to be, I found that there was a lot of information to look through. Under the Collections tab there were Maine census and voter lists, Maine birth, death and marriage info, Maine military lists, a Maine immigration and travel section, Maine newspaper and publications, Maine reference, dictionary and atlas info, Maine maps, atlases and gazetteers, Maine stories, memories and history, Maine schools, directories and church histories, Maine tax, criminal, land and wills. Under the History tab, there were clickable links to the history of Maine, featured Maine data collections, and famous Maine people who had signed their census form. There is also a Help and Advice section that gives you information about Maine towns and counties, family history research, research in New England town, and a link to the Maine Geological Society. The final tab to click on in this section was Resources. This section offered other ways to search for information.