1. Under the search tab I chose Immigration & Travel and then narrow by category Ship Pictures & Descriptions. Then I typed in "Titanic" in the keyword search and got 6 results. Five of the results were from the White Star line, and the Titanic was the last entry listed. The description for Titanic only lists the Olympic as a sister ship. So I clicked on the Olympic, and it only lists the Titanic as a sister ship. (I kind of cheated on this one since I already knew that the Olympic and Britannic were the sister ships of the Titanic.) I clicked on the Britannic and the description says "Note: Quite similar to the Olympic and Titanic" but doesn't actually list it as a sister ship???
2. Under the search tab I chose Newspapers & Periodicals and searched for the keyword "Hindenburg". I got 362 results. The first results listed were from the United States Obituary Collection, so I refined my search to "Hindenburg" and "dirigible" and got 523 results. This still wasn't really what I was looking for so I decided to narrow my search farther. After a quick search on World Book, I learned that it exploded in 1937 and was a German airship. So I included this in my search and got even more results. The first few articles I checked from the Stars and Stripes Newspaper, Europe, Mediterranean, and North Africa Editions, 1942-1964 had some pertinent information.
3. In HeritageQuest, I searched Books and under Places I searched Brown County, South Dakota. I got 30 results which were mostly family genealogies or not relevant (Butler County, OH, Jackson County, MI???). So I tried a different search using the example format of Aberdeen, South Dakota; Brown County and got 2 results: Genealogy of the Robertson, Small, and related families : Hamilton, McDougall, Livingston, Beveridge, McNaughton, Lourie, McDonald, Stewart and The descendants of Edward Greenlee of West Virginia. I also know that our library has plenty of books on local history if these results were not what the townsfolk were looking for. Side note: I had not used the Learning Center before so I checked out some of the videos. Interesting!
Good work, Librena. Yes, the Learning Center has LOTS of great info for genealogists of all levels! Thanks for taking a look. I find that it takes a bit of sorting to get good results in questions such as those in #2 & #3. Getting solid dates, as you did for #2, helps. Regarding the Titanic sister ship(s), I wonder if Ancestry doesn't include the Britannic because it was not identical??? Here's an interesting site on that topic: http://www.starway.org/Titanic/Sister_Ships.html
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