Hmmm. This week has turned out to be something of a challenge for me, for a variety of reasons.
First and foremost, searching for myself on Ancestry: I couldn't find myself! That really surprises me, given that I had full details to feed into the search engine. I tried a variety of searches and still couldn't find anything but false hits. Then again, Brown is one of the more common last names, so there is an element of sense there.
Second up was searching for my Grandfather. Surprisingly this was a much easier find. A far less common name may have helped me locate him, but I rapidly turned up a little bit of information. Birthplace and date, addresses he had lived in. One search even gave me what looked to be a SSN, which I hadn't been expecting.
The last of the three challenges has been the most perplexing to me, as we were instructed to search for "Maine" under the photos and maps tab of Ancestry Library.. Only Ancestry Library doesn't have a tab marked "Photos and Maps". There is a tab marked "Charts and Forms", but it's a download page for a single template and offers no form of search. I'm a little at a loss how to handle that, and if I'm missing some part of the interface I hope a fellow Marvel Blogger will point it out to me. Thanks!
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