What to write in a yearbook profile
How to Find Yearbooks Online on Ancestry.com for Genealogy Research
so let's dive in and talk about
yearbooks
how you can explore them and find some
answers to your
research questions for your ancestors
as well as yourself when you want to
access
the ancestry yearbook collection you
need it to go up to the top
to search after
you click the drop down menu all
collections you'll come
to this page now after you click on
search
all collections you come to this page
now i have recently viewed the you
yearbook collection so
it is appearing right here in my
recently viewed collection
but you're going to want to come down
here to the school
directory section right here
and then click on school directories and
church histories
and then you're going to scroll down
here to us
school yearbooks once you're on this
page
the fun can begin so
let's go ahead and start broad and then
we can narrow
things down the first thing i want to do
is to go ahead and search geisler
when you start broad what you can do is
you can then narrow it
down to more specifics but
what if your ancestor is
um in a place that you did not expect
when you start broad you might be able
to pick them up somewhere
so we're gonna narrow down bit by bit by
bit to
get to different cool topics that we
will want to explore
so let's say we want to find all of the
george
geisler's i typed geisler geisler
the george geislers that are in the
yearbook
collection now you will always want to
check back
often because ancestry will be adding
new yearbooks
as they become available so
just because your ancestor is not in
a yearbook right now does not mean they
won't be there
in the future as we scroll down we can
see that we just have all of the george
geisler's and there's a lot in oregon
and delaware but my
george skyslers were from ohio
so now i can go ahead and scroll down
and look for ohio
so once i put george geisler in ohio
i'm just gonna see the georges from
ohio and i finally found
a hit now this is george geisler
from west high school in columbus and
he's actually
a junior we can go ahead and then go
view the
record and notice i've already saved
this to my family tree
but i'm going to go ahead and show you
that ancestry will
highlight your
person as well as their name right there
and then you can see his classmates you
can go
a few pages forward and backward
you can also dive a little deeper
and see here are the seniors that year
and look by coming hopping around here
i'm on page five
i have a picture of what the school
looked like back then
how cool is that so let's go ahead and
explore further now another
way you can search is you can search by
location
to see what yearbooks might be
available for the place that you're
researching so
i'm going to search for houston harris
county
texas and i'm first just going to see if
that location
appears in the database so with a place
like houston
it should if you have a smaller location
me
not so much for now but notice we have a
ride
wide range of topics from university of
houston
houston reagan high school dolby high
school
from 1959 1960 1997 so that's really
good
now what i want to do is i want to see
if
the um school elsic
high school is in the database so i can
go ahead and type in
elsic high school and i'm going to go
ahead and do an exact match
and type cert and press the search
button
and notice i have entries for elstick
high school there
in houston texas so then let's say
okay i had some friends that went to
eltick high school
between 1990 and 1994. so i'm going to
go ahead and pick a year
in the middle 1992 and do plus or minus
two years and see what happens
so we have somebody with the last name
elsic but they're over in
florida now what happened well
ancestry tried to give you a result but
it doesn't look like eltick high school
for the years 1990 through 1994
have yearbooks in their in the ancestry
collection
right now if you want to know how to
donate
your yearbook to ancestry or a yearbook
you have
for a relative go ahead and hang on to
the end of the video and i will tell you
how now instead of looking for
elsic high school i can look for the
rival
high school
in this case i know that my brother went
to this high school so let's go see what
he looked like back then
so he went to eltick high school between
not
1895 but 1985
that's probably the midpoint of when he
went there
and unfortunately the search doesn't
always work
correctly so if you get some strange
results
even though you put these filters in
then i would actually go back to the
beginning of the
yearbook search page clear out the
search
and start over now often it pays
not to have an exact match
um selected so let's go ahead
and do david geisler houston harris
county texas
a leaf hazel hastings high school and
there he is
when i just searched for hastings high
school
i get a lot of strange results but once
i finally put
in a leaf hastings high school there
is my brother
don't we look alike okay so now
there's some other things that you might
want to do
so my brother had a friend whose name
was george and i don't remember his last
name but i do remember what he looked
like
so i'm just going to type in the name
george
again i'm going to do um houston harris
county texas
a leaf hastings high school
and type search
and i do have that 1990 again
but the george i'm looking for should
have been
intending there between in the late 80s
so i'm gonna put eight
1985 um
two for two years and let's see if i can
filter this down to the george i'm
looking for
and sure enough this gentleman right
here
is the george that i was looking for
and i could go ahead and use this george
to go ahead and enhance my brother's
story about who his best friend was
for the drumline for the hastings
bears go bears now after you find
a record that you want to save a
yearbook entry that you want to save
to your family tree how do you go about
doing that
well this is my dad's cousin anita anita
has passed away
but i know that this is her and she
attended west high school
in columbus ohio on her about 1966 and
her birthday was very close to 1950
so all i have to do is in this profile
entry is press
save save to someone in your tree
and type her name anita
so i can go ahead and use this
form to migrate her information over
here
i know that that is her correct name she
was born
about 1950 and then if i didn't have
this information before
over here on the right then it will be
new information
um right now i could overwrite it here's
one little thing
i like to do i like to clean up the
locations and make them all the same
so there's one way to go all i did was
highlight
copy paste overwrite anytime you have
any record that you're attaching and you
want to fix
a location to make it more standardized
city county state and country
you can fix it right there super easy
all right
so that's a bonus tip go ahead and save
to your tree
and then i'm going to have this
entry of the school yearbooks for anita
so i hope you enjoyed that exploration
of yearbooks
that can be found in ancestry.com
if you have any more questions about how
to find your relatives
or yourself in ancestry's yearbook
collections
be sure to ask them in the comments
section below
now how do you donate a yearbook that
you may have
in your home for yourself or a relative
so that your yearbook can be included
on the ancestry website well the very
first thing you have to do is make sure
that you
never want to have that book back
because ancestry
will accept a yearbook that
you don't mind them ripping up the spine
so that they can rapidly
scan those yearbooks in so yes the book
will be
damaged once it's done so if you have no
problem
donating the book then you can contact
ancestry's record collections go ahead
and just
find the contact us
section on ancestry and find out the
procedures to donate your books
to make sure that your ancestors and you
are in the collection for the
generations to come
so my name is devin noelly i hope you
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