My Trails into the Past

We are fortunate to have miscellaneous ephemera saved for various people in our family. My husband’s aunt was the receiver of these items, as everyone knew she would save them. She had filing cabinets organized by family with multiple file folders for each person. When I was working on the Kinship Determination Project (KDP) for my certification portfolio, I visited the archive and made images of many of these “one of a kind” documents. I used the documents to help fill in some personal information about David Lundquist, the person of interest in the third generation. One such document is a report card from his 8th grade. His teacher was Gladys Greeley and his school was in District 9 in Montgomery County, Iowa. No year is filled out, either on the front or inside. He was fourteen, which would put it about 1912. Inside the card, only the fourth, fifth, and sixth months were filled in. He scored high marks (in the nineties) in spelling, arithmetic, grammar, history, civics, and phys...