Lesson 9

1.  In Ancestry, I went to the Search drop-down list and then to the "Immigration and Travel" section to find the "Ship Pictures and Descriptions" collection.  From there I went to the "Passenger Ships and Images" section.  I typed Titanic and "sister ship" in the keyword search and got back 7 results.  The Titanic is one of those listed.  The information regarding the Titanic states that the Olympic was a sister ship.  Four of the six others are from the White Star Lines (the company that owned the Titanic).  In looking at the information for each of those four, I found information and a photo of the Olympic.  (The Britannic is described as "Quite similar to the Olympic and Titanic."  I cannot find that Ancestry says the Britannic is a sister ship to them; however, Wikipedia does make that statement.)

2.  I did a keyword search for Hindenburg dirigible in the Newspapers & Publications collection and got back 545 results, of which 539 are newspaper articles and 6 are in periodicals and magazines.  The majority of the newspapers articles are from various editions of the "Stars and Stripes."  The magazine articles did not appear to be very helpful, and 539 newspaper articles is a lot to go through, so I added 1937 to my keyword search terms, thinking this would narrow my results.  Instead, however, it increased the number to 293,616 results.  I do not understand why adding terms increases the results, so I tried decreasing my search terms and just looking for the term "Hindenburg."  That search yielded 363 results with the first several being obituaries.  I can sort the results by category, but I still have over 300 in the various editions of the "Stars and Stripes" newspapers.  I looked at a few of these articles, but I didn't really find much that I felt would be of help to a student doing a report.  I think he would be better off using a different database.

3.  To find historical county information, I looked in the "Search Books" section of HeritageQuest.  From there I went to "Places" and put "Brown County" "South Dakota" in the search terms.  Several of the 30 results in the list dealt with genealogical information. I found only a couple which might be helpful.  They are A brief history of South Dakota by Doane Robinson and History of Dakota Territory by George W. Kingsbury.