Available only inside a library or school, AncestryLibrary includes U.S. Federal Census records from 1790 through 1930, has over 4000 searchable indexes and databases, immigration records, military records, Social Security Death Index, family histories, historical maps and yearbooks. AncestryLibrary continuously updates indexes and mades additions. AncestryLibrary is the largest online collection of genealogical records of family history and local history.
1. In searching for my name, I checked the exact match box and searched for Merrill Fisk Ackerman. No Results. I unchecked the exact match box and a Merrill A. Ackerman, spouse James W. Flume came up. Nope. Not me. Then I typed in my maiden name and came up with a residence in Danbury, Connecticut, 1955. Nope. Not me.
I refined the search and typed in Merrill M. Ackerman, South Dakota, 1945. Results: Merrill M. Ackerman. Residence 1992, Eureka, S.D.
I moused over U.S. Public Records Index Vol.I [Provo UT. original data: Voter Registration, Public Record filings, Historical Residential Records, Other household Database listings 1950-1993]
and the Preview Popup showed Merrill M. Ackerman, PO Box 71, Eureka,SD 57437-0071 (1992). Yes. There I am, and still am. But for 1995, PO Box 1, Eureka, SD 57437-0001 (1995) is erroneous information.
2. AncestryLibrary's search for a grandparent or great grandparent produced results on the first hit. Alfred Cornelius Musson USA New Jersey returned results of the 1900 United States Federal Census. His name was spelled Alford Musson with brackets [Alfred Musson], Westwood, Bergen, New Jersey, age 11, b. Oct 1888, New York, who was the son of James, born in England. Alfred C. was one of 8 children, 3 brothers and 4 sisters ranging 2 to 3 years apart. In the 1910, Alfred C., age 21, was still in his father's household in Woodcliff, Bergen, New Jersey. By 1930, Alfred C. was head of his own household with 3 children and his wife's aunt living with them in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut. On his World War II Draft Registration card, it showed his birth date to be 5 Oct 1886 and residing in Bronx, New York. His Draft Registration card in his own handwriting was such a find: his handwriting resembles my father's and my own large, bold, scrawling handwriting with some upper case letters and lower case letters.
I am so very pleased to find the 1900 census listing my great grandfather's children and their ages. This is the first time I am able to see how those 8 children line up with their names, birth dates and ages. Now, I can figure out their wives/husbands and children. I have to see the family tree drawn out to make sense of genealogy. My sister just keeps it all in her head, as did my mother and father, and is like a talking encyclopedia explaining who is/was who!
I want to go back and spend more time searching my great grandfather, James, and the Immigration & Emigration link, and the passenger lists to compare those online results with the records my father has in his book, written before online genealogical collections were available.
But, school is now in full force here, it is super crunch time with library automation in full swing, and more teaching duties have been added: DDN Art and individual student tutoring, until further notice. My sister will be so pleased when I tell her about these databases. She is coming to SD from TN and I will let her search!
3. The AncestryLibrary search under the "Photos and Maps" tab with "South Dakota" as keyword resulted in 2 catagories: Pictures. Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers.
Pictures= 174,662 U.S. School Yearbook Index. 929 Library of Congress Photo Collection, 1840-2000. 810 U.S. School Yearbooks. 10 U.S. Family Photo Collection, c.1850-2000.
Maps, Atlases, & Gazetteers= 85 Lippincott's Gazetteeer of the World, 1913.
I chose U.S. School Yearbook Index.
Sioux Falls College, Sioux Falls, SD, 1933.
South Dakota State College, Brookings, SD. 1939.
University of SD, Vermillion,SD 1942, 1949
Yankton HS, 1955, 1956.
University of SD, Vermillion, SD 1961, 1966, 1967.
and more, but no Eureka HS.
I did not explore the other indexes at this time.
Available from home and in libraries and schools, HeritageQuest also includes the U.S. Federal Census records from 1790 through 1930, and has over 25,000 family history and local history books. It contains PERSI, a periodical index of over 2 million genealogical and local history articles, a Revolutionary War Collection, Freedman's Bank Records (1865-1874) founded to serve African Americans, and Memorials, Petitions, and Private Relief Actionsof the U.S. Congress in the LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set.
Thank you for the HeritageQuest Online and AncestryLibrary Edition Comparison Chart!
4. Searching Books in HeritageQuest, I checked Places and entered Ridgewood, New Jersey with 61 results. Scanning the list of books, I selected #54, Staten Island and its People: A History, 1609-1929. I scrolled down the table of contents and clicked on Vol. II Chapter XXVI Old Families and their Homes. I found pictures of homes, Dutch Architecture, 1913, a Dutch Oven house, North Shore houses, 1922, but I did not find any families I recognized. Vol. II Index lists Censuses of 1698, 1702, 1706, 1731, 1737, 1771, 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860. There were 12 pages of Episcopal Churches, which I did not search. No Musson families in this book.
Places for New Jersey, Ridgewood, Cemeteries. No results. We're going to have a good time searching later.
Digital Sanborn Maps are historical fire maps for 82 South Dakota communities. The Sanford Map Company, established in 1867, provided fire insurance maps for almost 100 years.
5. South Dakota. Eureka [McPherson Co.] June 1921-June1939.
On this map, streets and avenues all have names. To date, only Main Avenue has retained it's original name. Post 1939, avenues are now lettered, A, B, C, etc. and all streets are numbered.
Buildings on this map that are still in use today are the following:
Sheet 1, Eureka Community Hospital. Steel joists, wood roof, tile brick. Map shows a coal bin attached to the front of the hospital, and the Nurses Home across the street, which today, is a private residence.
Sheet 3 shows the Zion American Lutheran Church.
Sheet 4 shows the bank location which is the same, but I do not know if the building is the same.
Sheet 1 gives water facilities and describes an artesian well, how deep (cannot read). Average daily consumption, 50,000 galllons. Fire Dept. 1 chief, 1 assistant chief, & 16 men volunteer., and more details Public lights electric. No fire resistive roofing ordinance.
My goodness! What a massive amount of information we have at the tip of our fingers!
Friday, August 27, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Lesson 8--Learning Express Library
Learning Express Library is online tutorials and has over 300 practice tests that one may repeat as many times as needed. ACT, SAT, GED, ASVAB and more tests with complete answer explanations and study suggestions are available on PC in 400+ South Dakota libraries and campuses and on PC in South Dakota State Government, plus, Learning Express Library is available from home by entering a library Barcode and Password or one's own library card number and creating a password and including Email.
I really like this new home page design. It is so welcoming, nonthreatening, and so much easier to use. Everything is explained so well on the What Do I Do Now? feature and within each course.
The tutorial link for Learning Express Library that South Dakota Library Challenge:Electronic Resources Edition supplied in this Lesson 8 was very helpful. Thank you!
1. Set up an account.
I clicked on New Users only to learn my username was already used. Then, I remembered I'd set up an account years earlier and went to Returning User Login. I typed in the same username and password and rediscovered the results of the courses/tests I'd taken: SAT Practice Essay I; ACT Writing Essay Practice Test; Algebra, Patterns, Functions practice 4. For the Essay course, 4 courses were listed to take, which I haven't taken yet. I like the suggested answer sample showing examples of a 6-point response, 5-point response, down to a 1-point response scoring.
2. Choose one..."Score my test"..."View Answers"
Learning Express Library's tests are exactly that: a fast learning experience! While taking the test, you realize what you know and what you do not know. The test is scored right away, and with a quick click, you are given explanations and courses/tools you need to help you improve right now, or later, as you have the time to schedule it in your life. What a wonderful tool for being able to educate, improve and advance! I'll be coming back to do some computer courses...and will be showing students and teachers (they'll love it!) this database, too. What a great tool for those students in study hall "with nothing to do" !
3. Job searching and resume writing..."Job Search and Workplace Skills"
I chose Job, Search, Resumes, Interviewing and peeked at Career Course: Succeeding on the Job, got hooked on Time Management and ended up doing the whole 4-segment course with 22 sections/readings just to see what it had in it. I found Handling Criticism in Segment 2, Managing Work Relationships, to be helpful, and How to talk to your boss about a raise or promotion in Segment 3, Promotions and Raises, calming, in this taxpayer-environment. Segment 4, Your Next Career Stop, How to Handle a Resignation said to make three (3) lists: 1. Provide an outline of day-to-day activities. 2. List all open projects and the status of each. 3. State/describe the location of all important files and other information. Include these three lists with the letter of resignation. This course also gave samples of letters of resignation.
I like the course outline bar on the left of the screen so one can see where he/she is and what is still ahead to do. One can stop at any time and return later to finish just by clicking on My Center and resuming where you left off.
4. eBooks.
I printed out the list of LearningExpress Searchable eBooks.
Under Math Skills, I will demonstrate/show and point out Goof-Proof Personal Finance to the Personal Finance/computer teacher.
I clicked on Goof-Proof Resumes and Cover Letters (by Felice P. Devine, First Edition, c2003, 141 pages) under Workplace Skills and Career Tools and added it to My Center.
There are 8 books in the High School Library that relate to Workplace Skills and Career Tools with copyright dates ranging from 1993 to 2001. Four books have been checked out once, and four books have never been checked out. These dates are considered recent compared to the age of most of the books in this library's collection., but I think these 8 may be withdrawn, and then advertise Learning Express Library and let Learning Express Library take center stage.
The High School Library was once a stage, complete with one window wall facing the study hall, and four doors, one in each direction, creating a short-cut from one side of the building to the other, a traffic lane. I need to make some highway signs advertising these databases, similar to the Burma Shave era (1950s) or the Wall Drug era (1930s--Ice Water)!!
The 8 books.....The number in ( ) is number of times book has been check out.
Joyce Lain Kennedy's Career Book c.1993 (0)
How to Land a Better Job c.1994 (0)
How to Get a Good Job and Keep it c.1994 (0)
The Quick Resume & Cover Letter Book c.1994 (1)
Dynamic Cover Letters c.1995 (1)
The Job Hunting Handbook: Job Outlook to 2006 c.1998 (0)
Panic Plan for the SAT c.1998 (1)
Hot Words for the SAT * 1 c2001 (1)
What do you think? Agree, all should be withdrawn ? Or does a book in hand with samples to see by flipping the pages or via index warrant a spot on the shelf? Something better than nothing? The 4 with zereo circulation will be withdrawn for sure. Two books with 1 circulation were checked out by the teacher teaching this subject in 2000. The other two books were checked out by students in 2004 and 2005.
I have never written a resume to obtain a job. For all the jobs I've ever held, the employer has come to me, including this one 16 years ago, before he hired me 2 years later in 1996.
Wow! What a useful database for life-long learning and employment!
I'll be roaming around in this one every chance I get.
I like the print feature that allows printing the one page I am on! :)
What an experience I am having in this South Dakota Library Challenge: Electronic Resource Edition course! Benefits galore!
I really like this new home page design. It is so welcoming, nonthreatening, and so much easier to use. Everything is explained so well on the What Do I Do Now? feature and within each course.
The tutorial link for Learning Express Library that South Dakota Library Challenge:Electronic Resources Edition supplied in this Lesson 8 was very helpful. Thank you!
1. Set up an account.
I clicked on New Users only to learn my username was already used. Then, I remembered I'd set up an account years earlier and went to Returning User Login. I typed in the same username and password and rediscovered the results of the courses/tests I'd taken: SAT Practice Essay I; ACT Writing Essay Practice Test; Algebra, Patterns, Functions practice 4. For the Essay course, 4 courses were listed to take, which I haven't taken yet. I like the suggested answer sample showing examples of a 6-point response, 5-point response, down to a 1-point response scoring.
2. Choose one..."Score my test"..."View Answers"
Learning Express Library's tests are exactly that: a fast learning experience! While taking the test, you realize what you know and what you do not know. The test is scored right away, and with a quick click, you are given explanations and courses/tools you need to help you improve right now, or later, as you have the time to schedule it in your life. What a wonderful tool for being able to educate, improve and advance! I'll be coming back to do some computer courses...and will be showing students and teachers (they'll love it!) this database, too. What a great tool for those students in study hall "with nothing to do" !
3. Job searching and resume writing..."Job Search and Workplace Skills"
I chose Job, Search, Resumes, Interviewing and peeked at Career Course: Succeeding on the Job, got hooked on Time Management and ended up doing the whole 4-segment course with 22 sections/readings just to see what it had in it. I found Handling Criticism in Segment 2, Managing Work Relationships, to be helpful, and How to talk to your boss about a raise or promotion in Segment 3, Promotions and Raises, calming, in this taxpayer-environment. Segment 4, Your Next Career Stop, How to Handle a Resignation said to make three (3) lists: 1. Provide an outline of day-to-day activities. 2. List all open projects and the status of each. 3. State/describe the location of all important files and other information. Include these three lists with the letter of resignation. This course also gave samples of letters of resignation.
I like the course outline bar on the left of the screen so one can see where he/she is and what is still ahead to do. One can stop at any time and return later to finish just by clicking on My Center and resuming where you left off.
4. eBooks.
I printed out the list of LearningExpress Searchable eBooks.
Under Math Skills, I will demonstrate/show and point out Goof-Proof Personal Finance to the Personal Finance/computer teacher.
I clicked on Goof-Proof Resumes and Cover Letters (by Felice P. Devine, First Edition, c2003, 141 pages) under Workplace Skills and Career Tools and added it to My Center.
There are 8 books in the High School Library that relate to Workplace Skills and Career Tools with copyright dates ranging from 1993 to 2001. Four books have been checked out once, and four books have never been checked out. These dates are considered recent compared to the age of most of the books in this library's collection., but I think these 8 may be withdrawn, and then advertise Learning Express Library and let Learning Express Library take center stage.
The High School Library was once a stage, complete with one window wall facing the study hall, and four doors, one in each direction, creating a short-cut from one side of the building to the other, a traffic lane. I need to make some highway signs advertising these databases, similar to the Burma Shave era (1950s) or the Wall Drug era (1930s--Ice Water)!!
The 8 books.....The number in ( ) is number of times book has been check out.
Joyce Lain Kennedy's Career Book c.1993 (0)
How to Land a Better Job c.1994 (0)
How to Get a Good Job and Keep it c.1994 (0)
The Quick Resume & Cover Letter Book c.1994 (1)
Dynamic Cover Letters c.1995 (1)
The Job Hunting Handbook: Job Outlook to 2006 c.1998 (0)
Panic Plan for the SAT c.1998 (1)
Hot Words for the SAT * 1 c2001 (1)
What do you think? Agree, all should be withdrawn ? Or does a book in hand with samples to see by flipping the pages or via index warrant a spot on the shelf? Something better than nothing? The 4 with zereo circulation will be withdrawn for sure. Two books with 1 circulation were checked out by the teacher teaching this subject in 2000. The other two books were checked out by students in 2004 and 2005.
I have never written a resume to obtain a job. For all the jobs I've ever held, the employer has come to me, including this one 16 years ago, before he hired me 2 years later in 1996.
Wow! What a useful database for life-long learning and employment!
I'll be roaming around in this one every chance I get.
I like the print feature that allows printing the one page I am on! :)
What an experience I am having in this South Dakota Library Challenge: Electronic Resource Edition course! Benefits galore!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Lesson 7--ArchiveGrid and CAMIO
ArchiveGrid is accessable only within schools, public, and academic libraries, is not full text, and may include notes and summaries. ArchiveGrid is for exploring and doing historical and genealogical research. It provides access to almost a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and worldwide archives. ArchiveGrid will tell you where the information is located and how to contact the archival institution.
Discovery Exercise Part 1--ArchiveGrid.
1. "Sitting Bull autograph card" typed in search box resulted in 1 result.
Sitting Bull 1834?-1890 Cornell University Library
Autograph card and envelope for card.
Forms part of the Native American Collection. (NAC)
Digitized for the Vanished Worlds, Enduring People exhibition.
Preferred Citation: Sitting Bull autograph card, #9052.
Division of Rare and manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Contact an archivist to learn more about access to materials in this collection.
Cornell University Location NIC Call Number 9052 Location rmc
Call Number: Archives 9052 Bd. Ms.
A Native American shaman, Sitting Bull was leader of the Hunpapa Sioux [Teton or Lakota]. He was known as Tatanka lyotake or Tatanka lyotanka or Ta-Tanka I-Yotan. Sitting Bull fought the Crow Indians, the advancement of white settlers into Sioux lands, and led his warriors in the battle of Little Bighorn against the U.S. soldiers of the 7th Calvary. Many were killed. Sitting Bull led his people to Canada to live, but later surrendered to U.S. forces. In the U.S. , Sitting Bull became part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show tour. Unwilling to give up his Sioux traditions and the U.S. outlawed Ghost Dance, Sitting Bull was killed resisting arrest by U.S. soldiers.
2. Do a search of your own.
"Alfred Lyman Musson" = no results.
"Musson" = 59 records
Alfred Lyman Musson is my late father.
The first record #1 was exactly what I was looking for.
1. Musson family genealogical notes, Cell, Robert F.
Library of Virginia
Concerns Musson family. Compiled by Robert F. Cell and Alfred L. Musson.
When I clicked on this first record, I was directed to :
Contact an archivist to learn more about access to materials in this collection.
A direct link to Library of Virginia was supplied.
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
800-692-3500
Name
EMail
The Department you would like to contact (lists 15 choices + unknown/other)
ArchiveGrid will not allow printing of the pages of the 59 Musson results.
ArchiveGrid will not allow printing of the listing of the A to Z 1000+ libraries that hold archived materials.
ArchiveGrid will not allow printing of their home page listing some of the archival institutions.
ArchiveGrid will allow the bare bones contact information page.
Cell, Robert F.. comp.
Musson family genealogical notes.
31 leaves.
Notes and Summaries:
Restrictions on Access: There are no restrictions.
Described in: Hart, Lyndon H., Ill, comp. A Guide to genealogical notes and charts in the Archive Branch, Virginia State Library, Richmond: Virginia State Libray, 1983.
Concerns the Musson family. Compiled by Robert F. Cell and Alfred L. Musson.
Photocopies.
This collection covers:
Musson family
Musson, Alfred L., comp.
OCLC Record ID: 314404216
*****************************
In 1993, Robert F. Cell published the book, MUSSON FAMILIES IN AMERICA including allied spellings. This book published the results of my late father's and Robert Cell's joint effort beginning in 1978, of their genealogical searchings. Each man had begun his genealogical researching years earlier. Combining efforts revealed over 4000 names in the "America" portion and "well over that number in the British section." In order to keep track of the various families, they devised and used a number system based on the immigrant to America.
Before his death, my father published in 1986, EMMA BARENDIAN DE YOUNG HEARN .
She is my great, great Grandmother who came to America in a three masted sailing ship in 1847 at the age of 16.
I was unsure where the earlier original manuscript notes of Robert F. Cell and my father had been archived. Now I know, thanks to ArchiveGrid, and I also know how to access them should I ever want/need to do so! My sister wants me to help with continuing the family genealogical records. She is waiting for me to retire, so I can travel to libraries, grave yards, and family members with her!!!
CAMIO is the acronym for "Catalog of Art Museum Images Online".
An online collection that documents images of works of art, prehistory through contemporary, from around the world.
CAMIO allows one to print. All content is rights-cleared for educational use inside libraries, schools, and academic institutions.
One captivating feature of CAMIO's home page, is the slide show of fade-in, fade-out images of famous paintings with their citations.
When searching, I like the 2 choices offered: to view by list with Image, Title, Creator, Date, Type, Museum, or to view by Thumbnails, seeing the images lined up side-by-side on the page.
Discovery Exercise Part 2--CAMIO
1. "Paul Revere" typed, without quotation marks, in the search box revealed 34 items of silver pieces, paintings and prints. Silver pieces include Teaspoon, 1785; Sugar Bowl and Cover, 1795; Tea Urn, 1791; Salver, 1761; Sons of Liberty Bowl, 1768; Teapot, 1789; Two-Handled Covered Bowl, 1785; Coffee Urn, 1793; Sugar Urn, 1793; Teapot, 1770, Teapot, 1787, Sugar Basket, 1798; Sugar Urn, 1799; Creampot, 1799, Sugar Bowl, 1761; Print, black and white, The Boston Massacre; Tankard, 1795; Cann, wine quart, 1787; Goblet, 1782 circa; Sauce Boat, 1780-1800 circa; Sugar Basket, 1780-90.
The print, The Boston Massacre, was engraved, printed and sold by Paul Revere. According to CAMIO, it is entitled, The Bloody Massacre, 1770, or did I read it wrong? A copy of
Paul Revere's portrait by John Singleton Copley, circa 1769, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, appears in the 2003 print edition of World Book Encyclopedia, p. 267. I'd looked up the Boston Massacre p. 505, because the print beneath the image on CAMIO was so hard to read. The encyclopedia stated the picture was featured with a patriotic poem.
The CAMIO-listed-painting by Grant Wood, The Ride of Paul Revere, brought to mind, the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Revere's Ride. "Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eigthteenth of April, in 'Seventy-five; ..."
2. "Sioux" typed in the search box obtained 63 results featuring articles of Clothing (cataloged under the title category of Costume and Jewelry) Book, Doll, Pipe Bowl, and Pipe Stem (cataloged under the title category of Sculpture), Photograph, Blanket Strip (cataloged under title category of Decortive Art and Utilitarian Object), Pouch, Double Saddle Bag, Turban, War Club, a 1871 painting by George Catlin, 1796-1872, and more artifacts.
3. Search for your favorite artist produced No Results for Thomas Kinkade.
I assume he is too contemporary for CAMIO.
I, then, searched several famous artists: Edgar Degas, 1834-1917, French, 166 works; Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian, 8 works; Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish, 994 works; Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French, 98 works, focusing on Edgar Degas.
In the 1950's, my father returned from Paris with a painting one of the customs persons thought was a Degas works, which indeed, certainly looks as if it could be, but another customs person said, according to my late father's story at the time, "Oh, it just a cheap imitation! Let him go!!" The painting is of two ballerina dancers. I searched to see if I could find anything similar and did find 5 works of dancers in similar poses.
Just seeing how each item in CAMIO is cataloged/accessioned by each museum was/is fascinating for me. In its beginning years, I worked on the acquisition committee of the Eureka Pioneer Museum of McPherson County measuring, describing, recording information for each artifact donated or purchased.
4. How would you and your community use this resource?
I will certainly use it to augment/book-talk the Eyewitness books on the famous artists, and tie-in the many works of poetry, available in the Elementary Library, when I do the poetry lessons in library skills classes.
For fourth grade, I read-aloud South Dakota books for the South Dakota curriculum studies. This year, I will also take grade four students to the computer lab and students will be typing in "Sioux" in CAMIO's search box!
All teachers, accept me, (no wall space room in our libraries) have just received SMART Boards this summer. Eureka School's art department was eliminated due to budget cuts 5 years ago. CAMIO can really fill a need here, plus tie-in with lessons presented via SMART Board.
ArchiveGrid and CAMIO can have many uses for history lessons, for the American Revolutionary War, for students in grades 2 and 6 doing family-tree projects, for German-Russian heritage searches here in Eureka.
I need to do more of the teacher meeting showing-the-databases sessions again.
I will be showing ArchiveGrid and CAMIO to the public library's librarian if she is not already aware of or utilizing them! I have never taken the time to explore them until now! Maybe she hasn't either.
5. Subject of your choice.
I chose to search piano, which resulted in 71 works on 4 pages.
I really liked the Workbox piano by Johann Christian Friedrich Gruneberg, European, Northern European, German, 1820.
Mahogany. 33 3/16 x 18 1/2 x 23 13/16/in. It even appears to have a mirror inside the lid.
I compared 4 square pianos, but none were as small as the Workbox piano.
Comparing the legs, elephant vs very delicate; a simple plain box shape vs ornate carvings covering the box; and placement of the key board were all so interesting features on these square pianos from the 1700s and 1800s.
What nice features CAMIO has with the slide show option, and being able to do 2 picture comparisons using the number assigned each image so all can be easily moved. Amazing technology! Web page use will have to be figured out on another day!
My goodness! Did I ever get involved in these two databases! Searching might never end!Enough already!
Discovery Exercise Part 1--ArchiveGrid.
1. "Sitting Bull autograph card" typed in search box resulted in 1 result.
Sitting Bull 1834?-1890 Cornell University Library
Autograph card and envelope for card.
Forms part of the Native American Collection. (NAC)
Digitized for the Vanished Worlds, Enduring People exhibition.
Preferred Citation: Sitting Bull autograph card, #9052.
Division of Rare and manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Contact an archivist to learn more about access to materials in this collection.
Cornell University Location NIC Call Number 9052 Location rmc
Call Number: Archives 9052 Bd. Ms.
A Native American shaman, Sitting Bull was leader of the Hunpapa Sioux [Teton or Lakota]. He was known as Tatanka lyotake or Tatanka lyotanka or Ta-Tanka I-Yotan. Sitting Bull fought the Crow Indians, the advancement of white settlers into Sioux lands, and led his warriors in the battle of Little Bighorn against the U.S. soldiers of the 7th Calvary. Many were killed. Sitting Bull led his people to Canada to live, but later surrendered to U.S. forces. In the U.S. , Sitting Bull became part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show tour. Unwilling to give up his Sioux traditions and the U.S. outlawed Ghost Dance, Sitting Bull was killed resisting arrest by U.S. soldiers.
2. Do a search of your own.
"Alfred Lyman Musson" = no results.
"Musson" = 59 records
Alfred Lyman Musson is my late father.
The first record #1 was exactly what I was looking for.
1. Musson family genealogical notes, Cell, Robert F.
Library of Virginia
Concerns Musson family. Compiled by Robert F. Cell and Alfred L. Musson.
When I clicked on this first record, I was directed to :
Contact an archivist to learn more about access to materials in this collection.
A direct link to Library of Virginia was supplied.
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
800-692-3500
Name
The Department you would like to contact (lists 15 choices + unknown/other)
ArchiveGrid will not allow printing of the pages of the 59 Musson results.
ArchiveGrid will not allow printing of the listing of the A to Z 1000+ libraries that hold archived materials.
ArchiveGrid will not allow printing of their home page listing some of the archival institutions.
ArchiveGrid will allow the bare bones contact information page.
Cell, Robert F.. comp.
Musson family genealogical notes.
31 leaves.
Notes and Summaries:
Restrictions on Access: There are no restrictions.
Described in: Hart, Lyndon H., Ill, comp. A Guide to genealogical notes and charts in the Archive Branch, Virginia State Library, Richmond: Virginia State Libray, 1983.
Concerns the Musson family. Compiled by Robert F. Cell and Alfred L. Musson.
Photocopies.
This collection covers:
Musson family
Musson, Alfred L., comp.
OCLC Record ID: 314404216
*****************************
In 1993, Robert F. Cell published the book, MUSSON FAMILIES IN AMERICA including allied spellings. This book published the results of my late father's and Robert Cell's joint effort beginning in 1978, of their genealogical searchings. Each man had begun his genealogical researching years earlier. Combining efforts revealed over 4000 names in the "America" portion and "well over that number in the British section." In order to keep track of the various families, they devised and used a number system based on the immigrant to America.
Before his death, my father published in 1986, EMMA BARENDIAN DE YOUNG HEARN .
She is my great, great Grandmother who came to America in a three masted sailing ship in 1847 at the age of 16.
I was unsure where the earlier original manuscript notes of Robert F. Cell and my father had been archived. Now I know, thanks to ArchiveGrid, and I also know how to access them should I ever want/need to do so! My sister wants me to help with continuing the family genealogical records. She is waiting for me to retire, so I can travel to libraries, grave yards, and family members with her!!!
CAMIO is the acronym for "Catalog of Art Museum Images Online".
An online collection that documents images of works of art, prehistory through contemporary, from around the world.
CAMIO allows one to print. All content is rights-cleared for educational use inside libraries, schools, and academic institutions.
One captivating feature of CAMIO's home page, is the slide show of fade-in, fade-out images of famous paintings with their citations.
When searching, I like the 2 choices offered: to view by list with Image, Title, Creator, Date, Type, Museum, or to view by Thumbnails, seeing the images lined up side-by-side on the page.
Discovery Exercise Part 2--CAMIO
1. "Paul Revere" typed, without quotation marks, in the search box revealed 34 items of silver pieces, paintings and prints. Silver pieces include Teaspoon, 1785; Sugar Bowl and Cover, 1795; Tea Urn, 1791; Salver, 1761; Sons of Liberty Bowl, 1768; Teapot, 1789; Two-Handled Covered Bowl, 1785; Coffee Urn, 1793; Sugar Urn, 1793; Teapot, 1770, Teapot, 1787, Sugar Basket, 1798; Sugar Urn, 1799; Creampot, 1799, Sugar Bowl, 1761; Print, black and white, The Boston Massacre; Tankard, 1795; Cann, wine quart, 1787; Goblet, 1782 circa; Sauce Boat, 1780-1800 circa; Sugar Basket, 1780-90.
The print, The Boston Massacre, was engraved, printed and sold by Paul Revere. According to CAMIO, it is entitled, The Bloody Massacre, 1770, or did I read it wrong? A copy of
Paul Revere's portrait by John Singleton Copley, circa 1769, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, appears in the 2003 print edition of World Book Encyclopedia, p. 267. I'd looked up the Boston Massacre p. 505, because the print beneath the image on CAMIO was so hard to read. The encyclopedia stated the picture was featured with a patriotic poem.
The CAMIO-listed-painting by Grant Wood, The Ride of Paul Revere, brought to mind, the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Revere's Ride. "Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eigthteenth of April, in 'Seventy-five; ..."
2. "Sioux" typed in the search box obtained 63 results featuring articles of Clothing (cataloged under the title category of Costume and Jewelry) Book, Doll, Pipe Bowl, and Pipe Stem (cataloged under the title category of Sculpture), Photograph, Blanket Strip (cataloged under title category of Decortive Art and Utilitarian Object), Pouch, Double Saddle Bag, Turban, War Club, a 1871 painting by George Catlin, 1796-1872, and more artifacts.
3. Search for your favorite artist produced No Results for Thomas Kinkade.
I assume he is too contemporary for CAMIO.
I, then, searched several famous artists: Edgar Degas, 1834-1917, French, 166 works; Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian, 8 works; Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish, 994 works; Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French, 98 works, focusing on Edgar Degas.
In the 1950's, my father returned from Paris with a painting one of the customs persons thought was a Degas works, which indeed, certainly looks as if it could be, but another customs person said, according to my late father's story at the time, "Oh, it just a cheap imitation! Let him go!!" The painting is of two ballerina dancers. I searched to see if I could find anything similar and did find 5 works of dancers in similar poses.
Just seeing how each item in CAMIO is cataloged/accessioned by each museum was/is fascinating for me. In its beginning years, I worked on the acquisition committee of the Eureka Pioneer Museum of McPherson County measuring, describing, recording information for each artifact donated or purchased.
4. How would you and your community use this resource?
I will certainly use it to augment/book-talk the Eyewitness books on the famous artists, and tie-in the many works of poetry, available in the Elementary Library, when I do the poetry lessons in library skills classes.
For fourth grade, I read-aloud South Dakota books for the South Dakota curriculum studies. This year, I will also take grade four students to the computer lab and students will be typing in "Sioux" in CAMIO's search box!
All teachers, accept me, (no wall space room in our libraries) have just received SMART Boards this summer. Eureka School's art department was eliminated due to budget cuts 5 years ago. CAMIO can really fill a need here, plus tie-in with lessons presented via SMART Board.
ArchiveGrid and CAMIO can have many uses for history lessons, for the American Revolutionary War, for students in grades 2 and 6 doing family-tree projects, for German-Russian heritage searches here in Eureka.
I need to do more of the teacher meeting showing-the-databases sessions again.
I will be showing ArchiveGrid and CAMIO to the public library's librarian if she is not already aware of or utilizing them! I have never taken the time to explore them until now! Maybe she hasn't either.
5. Subject of your choice.
I chose to search piano, which resulted in 71 works on 4 pages.
I really liked the Workbox piano by Johann Christian Friedrich Gruneberg, European, Northern European, German, 1820.
Mahogany. 33 3/16 x 18 1/2 x 23 13/16/in. It even appears to have a mirror inside the lid.
I compared 4 square pianos, but none were as small as the Workbox piano.
Comparing the legs, elephant vs very delicate; a simple plain box shape vs ornate carvings covering the box; and placement of the key board were all so interesting features on these square pianos from the 1700s and 1800s.
What nice features CAMIO has with the slide show option, and being able to do 2 picture comparisons using the number assigned each image so all can be easily moved. Amazing technology! Web page use will have to be figured out on another day!
My goodness! Did I ever get involved in these two databases! Searching might never end!Enough already!
Friday, August 6, 2010
Lesson 6--WorldCat and More FirstSearch Indexes
WorldCat is an international catalog containing over 174,000 records found in 72,000+ libraries, including South Dakota State Library and 25+ other libraries in South Dakota.
Discovery Exercise part 1
1.Using Advanced Search, and
2. "Title Phrase" with limiter "Books", I typed in Voyage of the Beagle, The and I received 1527 libraries owning it. In choice #1 Darvin's Century Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It was listed first with The Voyage of the Beagle listed as #2 choice.
When I put in more limiters of "year", copyright date of 1959, and "author phrase" of Darwin, Charles, The University of South Dakota was the top library and had a copyright date listed as c1959, 1839.
I added "Publisher", Harper & Row, and received 1 result, the exact book information I was searching for, is located in Canada at the University of DuQuebec, Trois-Rivieres. Eureka Elementary Library has one and Iwanted to check on the Dewey Number and found 6 different Dewey numbers used for this book: 574.9 (which is the one Eureka has on the spine label), 508, 508.3, 508.8, 508.092B, and 808! I stayed with 574.9.
3. Clicking on the highlighted author's name, Darwin, Charles, resulted in 7,586 records found with 5,538 records in English. 6,843 books; 532 Internet; 77 Articles; 47 Sound; 38 Archival; 21 Computer; 18 Visual; 6 Serials; 3 Score; 1 Maps.
Under subjects Charles Darwin was listed again with 7,652 results. 5,903 books; 892 Internet; 488 Visual; 187 Sound; 74 Archival; 71 Articles; 23 Computer; 10 Serials; 4 Scores. I clicked on Articles and found Journal of History of Biology, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring 1986) and many more journals, some British.
These features of author and subject I had never used. These are very nice to have to delve deeper, using WorldCat as a reference tool.
Other FirstSearch Indexes
"Search in database" drop down menu listed what is available. I will view the archived version of the Webinar October 2009 and the Participant Guide at another time, as soon as I get the Elementary Library ready for school to start.! It is under siege right now with inventory/weeding/ and ResourceMate underway, every table loaded down, plus new books arriving to get shelf ready!
Discovery Exercise part 2
"Search database" drop down, select OAIster, "Keyword" search using "Subject Phrase" South Dakota produced 145 records. I selected record #10, Observations on Bats at Badlands National Park, South Dakota Publication: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska. Clicking on "Access" in the full record, takes you right to the publication with an abstract of the article. "During the summers of 1992 and 1993, we"... (I am assuming the 3 authors listed are the "we", who hale from University of New Mexico, and the University of Northern Colorado) "conducted a survey of bats..." They captured bats and recorded species, age class, sex, and reproductive condition for each individual netted. The Badlands National Park is an important summer habitat and migration stopover for bats.
WorldCat has a whole lot more than I ever realized! I have been using WorldCat only for copy cataloging and to determine call numbers! I was never aware of all these other features available! My goodness, what a revelation! I'll be exploring this database more! Thank you!
Discovery Exercise part 1
1.Using Advanced Search, and
2. "Title Phrase" with limiter "Books", I typed in Voyage of the Beagle, The and I received 1527 libraries owning it. In choice #1 Darvin's Century Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It was listed first with The Voyage of the Beagle listed as #2 choice.
When I put in more limiters of "year", copyright date of 1959, and "author phrase" of Darwin, Charles, The University of South Dakota was the top library and had a copyright date listed as c1959, 1839.
I added "Publisher", Harper & Row, and received 1 result, the exact book information I was searching for, is located in Canada at the University of DuQuebec, Trois-Rivieres. Eureka Elementary Library has one and Iwanted to check on the Dewey Number and found 6 different Dewey numbers used for this book: 574.9 (which is the one Eureka has on the spine label), 508, 508.3, 508.8, 508.092B, and 808! I stayed with 574.9.
3. Clicking on the highlighted author's name, Darwin, Charles, resulted in 7,586 records found with 5,538 records in English. 6,843 books; 532 Internet; 77 Articles; 47 Sound; 38 Archival; 21 Computer; 18 Visual; 6 Serials; 3 Score; 1 Maps.
Under subjects Charles Darwin was listed again with 7,652 results. 5,903 books; 892 Internet; 488 Visual; 187 Sound; 74 Archival; 71 Articles; 23 Computer; 10 Serials; 4 Scores. I clicked on Articles and found Journal of History of Biology, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring 1986) and many more journals, some British.
These features of author and subject I had never used. These are very nice to have to delve deeper, using WorldCat as a reference tool.
Other FirstSearch Indexes
"Search in database" drop down menu listed what is available. I will view the archived version of the Webinar October 2009 and the Participant Guide at another time, as soon as I get the Elementary Library ready for school to start.! It is under siege right now with inventory/weeding/ and ResourceMate underway, every table loaded down, plus new books arriving to get shelf ready!
Discovery Exercise part 2
"Search database" drop down, select OAIster, "Keyword" search using "Subject Phrase" South Dakota produced 145 records. I selected record #10, Observations on Bats at Badlands National Park, South Dakota Publication: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska. Clicking on "Access" in the full record, takes you right to the publication with an abstract of the article. "During the summers of 1992 and 1993, we"... (I am assuming the 3 authors listed are the "we", who hale from University of New Mexico, and the University of Northern Colorado) "conducted a survey of bats..." They captured bats and recorded species, age class, sex, and reproductive condition for each individual netted. The Badlands National Park is an important summer habitat and migration stopover for bats.
WorldCat has a whole lot more than I ever realized! I have been using WorldCat only for copy cataloging and to determine call numbers! I was never aware of all these other features available! My goodness, what a revelation! I'll be exploring this database more! Thank you!
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