From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Sep 28 14:28:17 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 k8SKSHYn026174; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:28:17 -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 k8SKSG6b006188 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:28:16 -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 k8SHk2FI011131 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:46:02 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8SHk2sw011130 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:46:02 -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 k8SHdfFI011068 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:39:41 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8SKLkDV025798 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:21:46 -0600 X-Envelope-From: drybones@netreach.net Thu Sep 28 14:21:46 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 k8SKLkYn025789 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:21:46 -0600 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8SKLM3W001275 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:21:41 -0600 Received: from [192.168.1.47] ([141.152.240.101]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0J6B00D3HHNCNNL1@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:18:51 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:18:49 -0400 From: Elizabeth Cunningham Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] SCHOOL RECORDS In-reply-to: To: "Prytula, Karen" Cc: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Message-id: <451C2019.7000005@netreach.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com School records are very handy when you don't have a birth certificate and need to provide proof of age, for Social Security, for instance. All the records for one woman were burned in a courthouse fire, and another relative simply had none. His mother had moved so often he did not know where he was born (unfortunately he did not know the school either, which caused problems.) Elizabeth C Prytula, Karen wrote: >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 > > > > > >