My Trails into the Past

The earliest yearbook photo we have in our family is of my paternal grandmother Anna Marie Sullivan, who attended the Montana State Normal College (now University of Montana Western) and who graduated in 1914. This was a school to train teachers and that is what she did after graduating until she married in 1922. Her yearbook is full of other photos of her and I have written about the activities and included the photos in previous blog posts, here and here . The second generation includes Anna’s four children. Lorene graduated from Chaffey Union High School in Ontario in 1940. Virginia graduated from Napa High School in Napa in 1942 June graduated from Napa High School in 1944. I am not sure if this is her yearbook photo, but it is all I have. Bill graduated from Mt. Diablo High School in Concord, California in 1950. Lastly, the third generation: my senior photo from Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, California in 1972. #52Ancestors-Week 21: Yearbook—Three Generations of Yearbo...

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has a new assignment for us: Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1)   Ancestry.com updated their School Yearbook collection and it is FREE to access until 2 September.  Use https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/yearbooksindex/. 2)  Show us your school yearbook photos from the Ancestry collection, or from your personal photo collection.  Tell us the school and year.  Add your spouse or best friend or children if you wish! 3)  Tell us about it in a blog post of your own, in a comment on this blog, or in a Facebook post . Here are mine. I attended Las Lomas High School and graduated in 1972. My grades were just a little above average, only once did I make the CSF, in my first semester of Junior year. I had just a small group of frie...