Lesson 9: History and Genealogy Resources:

1. I could not come up with any information abut me but I put in my mother and came up with her whole family.  Kind of a shock to see it all right there.  Because I just do not have time this week, my husband is in the hospital, I am going to just do bare bones.  If I had time I would look them all up and go further back but not this week.  It will happen another time. 

2. I put in my Dad's mother and found 90 Katherine Munsch's.  I wonder how many more I would have found if I had put it in as Catherine.  I did find her listed in Walworth County, SD and her death date is correct.  I didn't remember her birth date and would have had to look that up at home.  1892 was her birthdate and that would be right because my dad was born in 1921.  I noticed a lot of the listings had husbands but her's did not. 

3. There were 10 picture catagories.  The most pictures found in the Yearbook catagory.  I went back again and put in my maiden name but still got no hits, which surprised me since I had gone to college in South Dakota. 
   The next thing I looked at was All Stories, Memories and Histories.  Here things were again divided into may more catagories.  When I got into this it gave the person that did this story and then where they were from and since we were in the South Dakota location they had to have some association with South Dakota.  I counted 12 more subdivisions here alone. 

4. I put in Alcester and did a search but was not very lucky.  I found 5 articles but in looking at them really did not find anything about Alcester.  The first article was by a person from Kentucky and I could not find any relationship.  The last article was by a person that lived in this southeastern area.  It is interesting to look at what people wrote and how these documents have passed knowledge down to us. 

5. I did not have very good luck here.  Alcester was not listed and so I tried Beresford and Eureka.  I am not familiar enough with either that I knew what buildings to look for.  I also found those maps very hard to read and when I zoomed in the I lost so much.  This would take a lot of patience to learn how to get around in these. 
   I did learn that not every community in South Dakota is listed in these maps.