Ancestry School Records

School records can also play a role in finding out family trees. Sometimes, records have been kept by schools for hundreds of years, which mean that if you know which schools your family members attended, you can learn more about them. If you do not know which schools were used, you can still use the records of local schools to get an idea.

• School records can be searched.
• Alumni records can also be found and searched for information. These can often tell you where people went after they graduated from the school as well.
• Yearbooks and other school photos can be used to help track people.

If you are unsure where family members when to school, your search should take you into directing schools in the area in which you know they lived. Do not forget about colleges, because some families did have the ability to send their children to colleges, even though children may not have graduated from there.