From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Sep 29 15:04:29 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 k8TL4TYn022152; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:04:29 -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 k8TL4S0s023894 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:04:28 -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 k8TIM9FI017680 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:22:09 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8TIM98K017679 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:22:09 -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 k8THViFI017533 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:31:44 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8TKDquC013246 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:13:52 -0600 X-Envelope-From: mildredm@adelphia.net Fri Sep 29 14:13:52 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 k8TKDqYn013237 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:13:52 -0600 Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8TKCTsU019668 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:13:39 -0600 Received: from m8v9r9 ([67.20.100.111]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with SMTP id <20060929201225.NOAF28964.mta10.adelphia.net@m8v9r9>; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:12:25 -0400 Message-ID: <002001c6e3fb$a98fae20$6f641443@clvdoh.adelphia.net> From: "Mildred" To: "Lynn B" , References: Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] RE: School Records (they ARE valuable) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:15:44 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1478 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 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 I began to school in a rural 2 room school. Grades 1-5 and 6-8 plus a small library or study room. I would assume each student would be indexed in the same room. So I think they changed grades and not rooms. Only one teacher to two rooms and taught in groups. I had my hands smacked for whispering lots of times shen she was teaching another grade Mildred. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn B" To: Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:27 PM 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. > Schools were not how they are today though. I would suggest checking > ALL grades. Students changed grades as they qualified by passing tests. I > have seen 16 year olds in 2nd grade and 9 year olds in 8th grade. This > isn't anything to do with their intelligence necessarily, but with how much > schooling they had been able to receive up to that time. > 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. > Lynn >