Ancestry Library

I didn’t find anything under my own name. I do know there are at least two other Marsha Lytle’s in the U.S. though, both who are also librarians. I have lived in fourteen states, had seven kids, and two marriages and divorces, so I was surprised nothing came up.

This is the one lesson I got distracted on and went all over the place. I started by searching in my father’s side of the family because we don’t know much about the early Lytle’s. They are a mystery I haven’t yet unraveled. I did find an obituary for my father’s sister in the Battle Creek, Michigan newspaper. When I noticed my aunt’s, I saw that one of my cousins had died. The obit should have come up, but didn’t which was very frustrating. I did, however, located my great-grandfather in an earlier census than I had found before, which gave me a few clues to follow up on. I thought he was born in West Virginia, which might be true because that was before it split from Virginia.

I don’t know what I did wrong, but I did not find the Photos and Map tab in Ancestry.

In Heritage Quest I found my ancestor’s Revolutionary Pension files. Michael Young enrolled in North Carolina but lived in Kentucky when he filed for his pension years later. I also did some research on Port Tobacco, Maryland where some of my earliest American ancestor’s lived in the 1600’s. The Dent Family had quite a few entries in the Historical Society of Charles County, Maryland.

In Sanborn Maps I started out with Rapid City where I was born and lived for a few months on Ellsworth AFB, but wasn’t able to locate that. I search Pierre instead in its early days (1884) to see if I recognized anything from my two very brief visits, but I didn’t.