Photo: high school students listening to speeches at the Pan-American Union, February 1942. Credit: Marjory Collins; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Back to School: Dress Codes from the Past

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on August 28, 2018

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to learn more about high school dress codes from the past... (Read More)

Photo: a classroom at the De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. Credit: Malate269; Wikimedia Commons.

Genealogy 101: School Yearbooks

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on August 22, 2017

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about a family history source often overlooked by genealogists: school yearbooks... (Read More)

Finding My Relative’s Story: The Search for Madge E. Richmond

By Thomas Jay Kemp on June 18, 2013

The other day I asked myself: what can I realistically find about my relatives in GenealogyBank? How many details about my family can I discover? So I decided to find out by searching GenealogyBank’s historical newspaper archives for a family member we know little about: Madge E. Richmond (1866-1942). Her Career as a Teacher... (Read More)