AncestryLibrary: Search for your own name in AncestryLibrary and report the results.

I guess I'm not very important. I finally found my name in U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1. At least it had my address from when I lived in Watertown and my current address here in Brookings. It is fun to search for people on this site.

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

I found my grandparents marriage license. Cool!

In AncestryLibrary, Perform a search under the "Photos and Maps" tab for "South Dakota" as the keyword. Report your findings.

I love the Library of Congress photo collection. I don't know how that would help patrons much but it was interesting.

In HeritageQuest, there are over 28,000 family and local histories in their online historical books. Search for a place or browse the publications. Report back on something that interested you.

Lots of family histories to look at.

Sanborn Maps, select South Dakota. Then select your town or a town with which you are familiar. Choose a date. Look at the first page containing the Index. Then navigate around the pages and see what you discover. Try to find a building on the map that is still in use today. Report your findings.

I found the Ward Hotel in Aberdeen, South Dakota. My Dad even worked there. I don't even know if it's a hotel now. The map is not real user friendly and it took some time to get to the location but once there, you see stuff about construction. Nice to know it's there.