Ancestry Library

Getting to a public library proved to be the hardest part of this assignment. Ancestry Library was very easy to use and is begging for me to return and spend more time on it.

Looking up myself, only yielded my address and birthdate. The information was old, from 1995 I think.

Finding my grandfathers was very cool.
My mother's father, Pierre Joseph Roy was listed in a draft notice for WWII. I thought this was odd because he was 53 at the time, but then I saw a note that referred to it as the "old man's registration." It offered his birthdate, address, and his employer.
I was unable to find anything on, his wife, my grandmother, Catherine Laramee Roy.
My father's father took more searching, his name was Alfred Levesque and there were several of them. It was the census that helped me find the right one, because I saw my father (age 12) and his siblings listed. The ages of all in the household were listed, his birthdate and location, that his father was born in Canada and mother in New York.

I had some trouble finding the "Photos and Maps." It took a lot of digging around. The first map I saw was of Bridgton 1871. I assume this was a Sanborn map. I will bring my husband, who is from Bridgton, to the library to check this out.
These Sandborn maps are wonderful. When I taught in Belgrade, Scott Davis - a 5th grade teacher at the time, used Sanborn maps to teach students the history of the area. They examined the Sanborn map for Belgrade village and then actually walked the area to look for evidence of past structures and boundries. The kids loved learning this way.