Friday, March 9, 2012

Heritage Quest

I used PERSI to look up Prairie County in Montana, which is where I grew up.  I found a list of military records in the Journal of the Little Big Horn Associates.  When I selected one article, I was prompted to fill out a request form.  I did not go any further.  I can see that this would be useful for someone who will take the time to complete serious research.

I did another search using US Serial Set.  I found 165 articles in a search for Pomeroy.  However, when I opened an article I couldn't find the name Pomeroy anywhere in the text of it.  I'm not sure why the article was selected with my search criteria.

1 comment:

  1. Hi, M! As you noted, you can find a lot of stuff in here. PERSI will provide articles for a fee, but keep in mind that you may be interlibrary loan it for free. Since I don't know which article you looked at in the US Serial Set, I can't really answer that question. You may have selected a document page (browse)rather than the page with the "hit" (search term) on it. Thanks for trying this out & commenting.

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