History and Genealogy Resources

In Ancestry Library I searched for my name and at first only came up with one listing at my current address. Everything was correct. When I searched further I did pull up my first address in town. The address, phone number and spouse were correct but had my birthdate as 1979 - a little off as my oldest child was born in 1979. I also searched for my dad. The first listing was in Sioux Falls at an apartment. My mom was listed as his spouse and so was his occupation. These results were from a city directory. This was so much fun to look at. I then looked at both my parents records and could even see the cemetary and their headstones. I also looked up my father-in-law.He was listed the son of the head of household and was listed as an unpaid family worker. How interesting.

When I searched for my grandfather I could see his name and where he was born - Denmark - which I already know but generations down the road could learn a lot. It also listed my grandmother and the names of the 9 children they had. I looked up my other grandfather and could see both his birth and marriage certificate.  I could keep going on for hours and get lost in this.

I found some of the same people I searched for in Heritage Quest as I did in Ancestry. I did look up Vermillion South Dakota and could read about the Harned family from a book. I also looked up Turner County and found a brief history of Viborg SD which is where my grandparents came from with the topic being Danish Americans which is where they were both born. Imagine that.

In Sanborn Maps I looked up Vermillion and found the Court House is still at the same location. I also found a Farm Implement and Shingles business. This has not been here for some time. These were both from a 1923 date. It was quite interesting to see where the end of town was at that time.