I'm really afraid this one will be more addictive than Facebook....deep breath....searching myself....wow, there I am! And look, there's every place I lived from 1988-1996. (That's a little unsettling.) I don't show up in Maine since I've only lived here 10 years, and apparently birth records for New York are not listed, and neither are marriage licenses for New York nor voting records for Illinois. And I'm not in any newspaper articles or photos. Onward...
So, I searched for my grandfather in the 1930 census. It's very neat to see the original record! There he is with my grandmother and two of my aunts (no one else was born yet). It looks like my grandmother's family is next in the record, I guess they all lived together. Yes, I magnified the record. Wow, 12 people lived in that house, including a lodger. I printed it to show my dad.
Having a little trouble with part 3, as I can't seem to find a photos and maps tab--there's pictures, and there's maps and gazeteers. For Maine pictures, I could see college yearbooks beginning in 1892(Colby, Bowdoin, Maine State College) and high school yearbooks from the twentieth century (maybe into 21st, didn't want to keep scrolling through). I could also look at headstones, or photos of ships. Under maps...oh, cool, there's a map of Harrison (where I work) from 1871 under the U.S Indexed County Land Ownership Maps. A person could get lost in this!
I hope what I searched for section three was right, I see someone else had trouble with it too.
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