Week 9 - History and Genealogy Resources—Ancestry
Library,
Heritage
Quest and Sanborn Maps
To find if the Titanic had sister ships, I first chose
Immigration and travel, and then narrowed the search further by choosing Ship
Pictures and Descriptions. I then typed in “Titanic” and got six results. All
but one of these ships were White Star Lines – the Carpathia was a Cunard ship.
By clicking on each ship, I
found that the Olympics’ description says she is a sister
ship to the Titanic. The description of the Britannic says that it is quite
similar to the Olympic and Titanic, but does not mention it being a sister
ship. There are many interesting pictures with each ship description, except
the Britannic.
In researching the Hindenburg disaster I chose Newspapers
and Periodicals and searched for Hindenburg, which gave me far too many
results. I then used the search term “The
Hindenburg” and came up with a more reasonable number. It returned 85 results in newspapers and 1 in
periodicals.
The Stars and Stripes newspaper seemed to have the most
articles and the one that I found most interesting was called “God Saved Me:
Hindenburg Survivor”, a story about Philip Mangone.
In searching for Hughes County history, I chose books and
searched “Hughes County” in places and
“South Dakota” in keyword. I came up with 37 results, but only one of
them seemed relevant to my
search. It was
written in 1937, titled Hughes County History. It is digitized at this site. There were
also
the expected results, i.e. Doane
Robinson’s Encyclopedia of South Dakota and
Kingsbury’s History of Dakota Territory.
