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Question:I graduated in 1985 and I am looking for my old yearbook


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I graduated in 1985 and I am looking for my old yearbook

Ancestry.Com has a databank of scanned yearbooks, with more being contributed all the time. You can get a free 14-day trial before you have to buy a membership. It might be worth it to check there.

Check with the library where you graduated. I haven't found any online.

I just googled it and came up with this,
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%...
you could probably do the same with your school name, see what it throws up for you, hope this helps.

You cannot just go to some website and they have old yearbooks from every school out there. Your ONLY options are these:

1. Contact the school you went to. My old highschool purchases extra each year, so 20 years down the road, someone much like yourself can call them and get one if you never got one way back when. It may be some other schools do the same thing.

2. Check Ebay. On occassion, we find old yearbooks from my old highschool on ebay. The really neat ones are from the classes of the 1920's. My old highschool was established in 1907.

3. Put an ad in the local paper "wanted" section for the community where you went to school. Someone who may have access to one may see it, or someone who knows someone....

4. Check bookstores in the community where you went to school for old, used, or antique books. Sometimes they will acquire one through an estate sale or something.

I graduated highschool in 1987. In school, my parents bought me the 1985 and 1987 books. In the last 5 years, I acquired my 1984 yearbook by doing #1 that I listed here, and acquired my 1986 yearbook by a combination of #2 and #4 that I listed here (I found it on ebay, and picked it up from the seller who was a local dealer of old or antique books and had acquired it from an estate sale).

By the way, you posted this in the genealogy section. This is NOT a genealogy question. My husband, who runs an alumni website message board for our old highschool (he was class of 1973, I was class of 1987) gets frustrated when people on there post things in the wrong section, saying they are "messing up the sock drawer".

If you just want to look at it - and maybe copy selected pages, with a digital camera - the library at the high school should have a copy. 69Cherokee has the best answer, though.

There is a fee site for old college yearbooks of selected colleges. 0.01% of all volunteer-run high school alumni sites will have yearbook pictures. Unless your class has an exceptional person who maintains a web site for it, there is no incentive for anyone else to spend all that time scanning and uploading pictures.

There are several reputable Yearbook Sellers on http://www.ebay.com just put in your search on the homepage to see if they have it available. I have purchased from a couple of them for 1967-68 yearbooks. You can also go to your high school alumni page and contact the secretary. Often there are old yearbooks leftover and kept at the school.

Good Luck to you.