Ancestry Plus

I looked up myself in Ancestry and found 6 links.  Four were to obituaries of my parents in several different newspapers.  The other two were from US Public Records.  One had my birthdate wrong, both listed addresses that I haven't lived at for more than 10 years.  I didn't find my marriage license.  I don't have a copy of it either.  Maybe I haven't been legally married for the past 37 years.

I looked up my grandfather, Adolph Demel, and found his WW I draft card.  It listed him as short and stout and that would describe him well.  He was also in several census, among them in the Kansas State Census 1855-1925.  The census taker spelled things phonetically.  My grandmother is listed as Kerey (Carrie), my mother as Evelin (Evelyn), and her sister as Ellenora (Eleanor).

The photos of South Dakota were very interesting. I'm particularly interested in the Dust Bowl era and WW II.  There was one of a very nice 1940 home in Aberdeen that was captioned "One of the few towns in South Dakota".  It was taken by the War Dept so who knows what they were looking for.  I did look up Brookings with the South Dakota pictures.  There were yearbook references and some harvest scenes.

I shall return with more on genealogy.