In doing a search on my
own name I found three of my four addresses (all for the same house) listed
along with the year of two of them. I
also was able to find, by using my maiden name, my marriage license
number. I did not know that ancestry
contained that type of information. I
did find that the information given is definitely not accurate for one listing. It
gave me an inaccurate middle initial and my husband’s birth date. There was a lot more information listed for
my husband on the same search that I did for me. I found our phone number listed for him but
not for me and it is a dual listing with the phone company. It was fun to play around and even saw a link
to view neighbors, though it was very out of date.
I tried to find my
grandfather in the census but had no luck.
However, when I searched for one of my husband’s relatives I had better
luck and did find him on the 1810 census.
That was the third census that the country had taken. I did have to zoom in quite a bit to be able
to read the name and I certainly wondered what all the number columns were on
the record.
I, like others, had
trouble locating the “photos and maps” tab. However, I read Feel the Learn’s blog post
about this search and used the same strategy.
I was able to poke around and find pictures of gravestones and yearbooks
that related to Maine. It certainly
looks like anyone could spend hours and hours with the information in ancestry.
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