From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Sep 28 09:00:53 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8SF0rYn007487; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:00:53 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8SF0oSj027402 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:00:50 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k8SCIaFI009929 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:18:36 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8SCIaf2009928 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:18:36 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k8S9psFI009577 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:51:54 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8SCXvtJ012041 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:33:57 -0600 X-Envelope-From: karenprytula@hydroottawa.com Thu Sep 28 06:33:57 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8SCXvYn012032 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:33:57 -0600 Received: from smtp.hydroottawa.com (HydroOttawa-gw.telecomottawa.net [142.46.196.98]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8SCXV5n009541 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:33:56 -0600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] SCHOOL RECORDS Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:30:44 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [ROOTS-L] SCHOOL RECORDS thread-index: AcbifynIgwdSR2NdS9K65hv8wkgB4gAdyy6Q From: "Prytula, Karen" To: "Laurie D" Cc: X-Spam-Score: 1.975 (*) BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lists5.rootsweb.com id k8SCXvYn012032 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com I don't know why anyone would absolutely need a school record, (unless of course it's yours or your child's) but if one did have to have one then I have to imagine that one would have begun the process by writing or visiting the school board....and that one knows for sure that there was a school in the area, and the name of it. I have 1700 people in my family tree, and have never obtained a school record. I've never really looked for one but it's not the type of record that is readily available, or the type you will stumble across when looking for something else. Where I live 3 major fires destroyed the area between 1870 and 1930. Destroyed. No records to be had. Records get moved away to other cities and towns and fires occur there. Or they merely get thrown out by accident, or lost. School boards amalgamate, records are misplaced, or mis-filed. Heck, I don't even have copies of Census for these people...If my great aunt tells me that her great grandfather used to live in 'that' house, and he went to the school that used to stand where the water treatment plant is today, that's good enough for me. I don't need his school records because I know that is where he went to school. There are not too many people out there working on the same family tree I am, and I expect it is the same in your case. If there is no info to be gotten, how can you expect to get it. Have you subscribed to all the surname lists, that pertain to the surnames you are researching? I literally have two file folders of just links to go to when searching for something...I saved all the links that people send out on this list. Sometimes you have to be satisfied that you have gone as far as you can. You might have to wait a year or so before some more information is found. There are trunks of important papers jammed in attics, basements, etc, and until someone donates them to an archive, or museum, you will never know what is there. Myself, I have done most of the work. That is, I have written to the archives and other authorities, just this morning before I came to work I received copies of baptismal certificates from the Archives of Quebec. Nobody offered them to me, and I don't believe anyone had them to offer to me anyway. If you have done all the work all by yourself, then I think you should be proud of your work. Be satisfied that you have done everything you can. But in reality, I do hope you really find what you're looking for, but don't stress out over it. KarenP Ontario, Canada currently searching Pedneault, Dufour, Snow, and Allen -----Original Message----- From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Laurie D Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 5:26 PM To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] SCHOOL RECORDS Hi All, I was wondering if by chance that there is a place that I could get school records if one has no other means if getting information. I find it hard to believe that noone has any info. On the Families that I have asked for,I'm more than willing to share and I have given and given and I have yet to get any help from anyone that has any info on my Family tree. Dolores (Clark) Desrochers ldd2@cox.net