From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Sep 29 20:36:07 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 k8U2a7Yn006525; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:36:07 -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 k8U2a6qt022292 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:36:06 -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 k8TNrlFI018703 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:53:47 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8TNrldB018702 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:53:47 -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 k8TNodFI018653 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:50:40 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8U2WnvV006473 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:32:49 -0600 X-Envelope-From: JBletch@aol.com Fri Sep 29 20:32:49 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 k8U2WnYn006462 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:32:49 -0600 Received: from imo-d05.mx.aol.com (imo-d05.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.37]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8U2W2XX019866 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:32:48 -0600 Received: from JBletch@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.6.) id e.3fb.7d9e2e0c (57317) for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:31:52 -0400 (EDT) From: JBletch@aol.com Message-ID: <3fb.7d9e2e0c.324f3118@aol.com> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:31:52 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5330 X-Spam-Flag: NO 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 Subject: [ROOTS-L] More on school records School records could prove invaluable if only to prove the family lived in the area between census records. I spent months trying to locate school records for Los Angeles, California for the period around 1890-1895. I knew what part of L.A. the family was likely to have lived in. I drove many miles to look at original city directories and listed all the schools contained for those years. The directories listed the addresses, so I was able to locate where the schools were on an old map. Dealing with the L.A. County Archives where the school records might have been placed was a headache. I was told in so many words, even if they had them, I couldn't look at them, because of privacy reasons. I only wanted to know if the girls were living in L.A. at the time and if the records confirmed the fathers name it would help a twenty year search. I think school records are an overlooked source but old ones are probably very rare.