York, 1934 Tips for Getting the Most from Yearbooks on Ancestry Yearbooks offer a peek into your ancestors’ lives, in a way that no other resource does, with candid glimpses of personality traits, interests, and education, during a time in their lives that we rarely see. There are currently more than 142,000 yearbooks in this unique collection and you can search them all directly here. Here are some search tips to get you started. Take a peek under the hood first. Use the browse on the right to explore what yearbooks are available for the places your ancestor lived. Try a search by last name only, specifying the place he or she lived and his or her estimated year of birth. Your ancestor may have used a nickname or other moniker that you’re not familiar with while in school, and yearbooks frequently used initials for first and middle names, so a last-name-only search will help you capture more references to your ancestor. If you’re not having luck, focus on a state rather than the town: a bigcity school may have actually been located in a suburb, and the school in a rural area might be in an adjacent municipality. See tips for determining what school your ancestor attended here. Visit the Ancestry.com Support Center at help.ancestry.com. For account questions or technical help, call 1-800-262-3787. Using U.S., School Yearbooks on Ancestry
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