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Don't throw away those old high school yearbooks! Instead, donate them to Ancestry.com - they are building a large searchable database of yearbooks, and need yours! Those are valuable family history resources! Donating yearbooks: https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Donating-Yearbooks
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I'm not down on Ancestry - they're a legitimate commercial venture, and great resource. I just have a bit of hesitation giving away my yearbooks and then being charged for the "privilege" of later looking at them (or at least those that don't have free access to Ancestry being charged).
I'd like to suggest one alternative that would become freely available to anyone once digitized - the Family History Library. I just called them and verified that they do accept yearbooks for their digital collection. The following link in the FamilySearch Wiki confirms it and provides details:
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Family_History_Library_Donations
--Chris
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@Glenn R Whicker I think this is a great idea. I will look into whether my books meet the criteria established by Ancestry. Thanks for the heads up.
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Another alternative is internet archive... you can also access yearbooks at MyHeritage.com they were offering free access but 🤷🏻♀️i dont know🤷🏻♀️ for how long... another place to see them free is classmates.com I usually don’t bother with that site because it has been kinda useless in the past, but I did find several yearbooks I was searching for on there so it’s worth a try
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Thanks for checking this out. I love seeing people working together to increase the digital collections. I treasure the school photos of my ancestors.
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Thanks, Christopher - I like the free FamilySearch idea - it would be my definite first choice for sure. I just don't know where to find access to them once they're digitized. I've used the BOOKS section of FamilySearch quite a bit, but they don't have things organized into "Collections" such as Yearbooks, as far as I can tell. Nor could I search for a particular name in a yearbook from a specific school, I don't think. Please share how you would go about finding someone in a yearbook using FamilySearch, because I'd love to know! Thanks.
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@Glenn R Whicker Glenn, I've never searched FamilySearch for yearbooks specifically, but when I went looking for copyright information in my ancient high school yearbook it had a very good index of names with pages on which people were shown or mentioned. My wife's was similar from her high school - good index with page number references. I'd presume (hope?) that most yearbooks would have the same thing. So it wouldn't be a major search undertaking to simply go to the index in a yearbook, see what page(s) a person is shown on, and then scroll through the sequential images of the film to find that page. That would go much faster than having to through image-by-image as in some old microfilms where you simply know that someone is on the roll of film, but there might be 1000 images or more to scroll through (still necessary today with the unindexed films). Indexing of the yearbook film would certainly help, but with a good index at the back of the yearbook, it shouldn't be bad at all - just check that and scroll to the page(s) in the book.
--Chris
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Right, but you'd still need to know the precise book to go to in order to find your ancestor. With Ancestry, all you have to know is a name, and every instance of that name in a yearbook pops up. It's several orders of magnitude more useful.
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