Yearbooks: Beyond the Photos
It's a blustery Autumn day as you wait with your friends for the morning school bus. You've tried to give extra care to your appearance today and your hair is just not at its best. Maybe you should have gotten a haircut last week--or maybe you shouldn't have gotten a haircut last week. On top of that, acne has erupted on your face and your favorite shirt didn't make it through the wash this week. Of course. . . It's School Picture Day! Funny that decades later I remember that Freshman year picture day so well. My only consolation was that most of us had similar experiences and a couple of months after the yearbook came out, no one remembered what you looked like the previous year anyway. Wouldn't you love to find your parents or grandparents in a record of their school years? Who knew that school yearbooks would become another valuable resource for genealogical research? Use yearbooks: to prove family relationships to establish time and location ...