MARVELous Maine Week 8

Genealogy Resources-Ancestry Library

This week is all about information about the Ancestry Library! When I placed my own name in the Search box over 20,000 different items were given, 20 were closely related. Some were me and many-many were not :) How interesting to find out so many people have my name whether I used my maiden or married. I tried the U.S. Census Collection but could not find any information as there is a 75 year privacy restriction, so the most present is 1940.
I found some information about my Grandfather who resided in New Hampshire, born in Maine. There were over 294,000 listings. I found him 4th on the list with the 1930 Census along with my Grandmother and their family information.
To find photo's and map's took alittle bit trying,  I clicked "search" and tried using the map of the U.S. States by clicking on the state of  Maine, this brought up all data collected for Maine. So I went back to the Search again, to the right side at the bottom of the page I found "Pictures and Maps". So I clicked Pictures first, placed Maine as the keyword and received the message that "alittle more information would give me better results". There were several baseball cards of players from Maine with over a million. So I revised my search to summarize the categories and the largest amount was in the Year Books from colleges in Maine 1892 +.
Then I tried "maps", over 100,000 were listed. I clicked on one from"Index County Land Ownership" Cumberland/Brunswick-Harpswell 1871, a smaller map appears which you can click on and using the cursor enlarge for better viewing or make smaller.
Once again another feature for the public to use when researching within the library!