Who do they look like?

Have you played the 'who do they look like' game with babies? You gather family photos and look at the photo and look at the baby and everyone says 'oh, he has their nose' or 'oh she has their eyes'....it's a fun game. I love to play. But what if you don't have any pictures of ancestors? Folks who've lived through floods may no longer have their collection of family memorabilia.

I attended a webinar for Ancestry.com Library Edition yesterday. I learned about the photos section.

I have used the census section a lot. I had not checked out the photos though. Ancestry Library Edition has US Yearbooks!

About U.S. School Yearbooks
This database is a collection of middle school, junior high, and high school yearbooks from across the United States.While yearbooks may not provide information about the vital events that are usually associated with genealogical research, they do provide other information about individuals' lives. This information helps place people in historical context as well as provides detail that helps turn individuals, sometimes only known by names and dates, into actual people.

They provide the approximate birth year, the school name, the school location, and the year the yearbook was published. School pictures are school pictures - even those from 1915. They do capture the era. These pictures can provide a link with your family!

Ancestry.com Library Edition is only available at the library.

-kls