From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Sep 29 12:40:26 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 k8TIeQYn026258; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:40:26 -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 k8TIePdA014537 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:40:25 -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 k8TFw7FI017145 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:58:07 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8TFw7v0017144 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:58:07 -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 k8TEfXFI016967 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:41:33 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8THNfJg016658 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:23:41 -0600 X-Envelope-From: karenprytula@hydroottawa.com Fri Sep 29 11:23:40 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 k8THNeYn016649 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:23:40 -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 k8THNWHp023417 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:23:40 -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] RE: School Records (they ARE valuable) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:23:24 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [ROOTS-L] RE: School Records (they ARE valuable) thread-index: Acbj6ql/nvfSNPduQHuJqQwUqbM4KwAAJy4Q From: "Prytula, Karen" To: "Lynn B" Cc: X-Spam-Score: 1.31 (*) BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO 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 k8THNeYn016649 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Hello Lynn Your genealogical society just finished indexing about 30 boxes of school records....Could you please tells us from District? Now if someone wanted to view the index is it going to be available on-line? And once they find the name of the person in the index are they going to be allowed to see the school record...and how? ...in person...on microfiche...via a school board employee...??? Where will you be storing these 30 boxes of school records? KarenP Canada -----Original Message----- From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Lynn B Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:28 PM To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] RE: School Records (they ARE valuable) Our gen. society has just finished indexing about 30 boxes of school records from a local district. Having done a few of these boxes, I can say that there is valuable information to be had from SOME of the records. Sometimes a teacher noted where they moved to or from during the school year, if they died during the year, birth dates or ages, who parents were, and other miscellaneous items (notes like "very slow", "weak eyes", "delinquent") that nonetheless may be interesting or valuable to a genealogist. After indexing these records, we transferred them to the State Archivist who was very happy to get them. Quite often these records are in School District archives (read: basements), State Archives, or other repositories. I would check with the school district in question and see what they do with their old records. If they are unsure what has happened in the past, see if the State Archives might have them, or check with your state office of education. \