{"id":5348,"date":"2017-09-08T13:01:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2017-09-08T13:25:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:25:09","slug":"geography-lessons-in-ancestry-coms-yearbook-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5348","title":{"rendered":"Geography &#8220;Lessons&#8221; in Ancestry.com&#8217;s Yearbook Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>announced an update of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10470501-1449535196000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D1265%26path%3D\">\u00a0their yearbook collection<\/a>. A quick search of the database indicated two things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>my high school yearbook is not yet included&#8211;good.<\/li>\n<li>they do not read this blog&#8211;bad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>is also have geographic issues with this collection.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a while back that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10470501-1449535196000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D1265%26path%3D\">\u00a0their yearbook collection\u00a0<\/a>has incorrectly placed the yearbook from <a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1672\">Bowen High School in the Chicago, Illinois, area as being in Bowen, Hancock County, Illinois<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1672\">That error<\/a> is still there.<\/p>\n<p>A quick search indicated two additional geographical errors that perhaps were always there but unnoticed until today. The 1955 Western Illinois State College (now Western Illinois University)\u00a0<em>Sequel<\/em> is indicated as being from Peoria, Illinois&#8211;it&#8217;s actually in Macomb. The 1959 University of Illinois\u00a0<em>Illio<\/em> is indicated as being from Chicago. It&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s in Champaign-Urbana. There is a reference to &#8220;Chicago administration&#8221; in the table of contents, but images are from the Champaign-Urbana campus. I could not easily tell why the\u00a0<em>Sequel<\/em> was shown as being in Macomb.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson: Be careful using narrow geographic searches on the yearbooks.<\/p>\n<p>Advice: When searching these materials be as specific as the state and no more. Seems like\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>has a little trouble with locations in the yearbook collection.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5349 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/yearbooks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/yearbooks.jpg 1016w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/yearbooks-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/yearbooks-768x395.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a neat collection of records. Like any database, be aware of it&#8217;s limitations when using it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancestry.com\u00a0announced an update of\u00a0their yearbook collection. A quick search of the database indicated two things: my high school yearbook is not yet included&#8211;good. they do not read this blog&#8211;bad. Ancestry.com\u00a0is also have geographic issues with this collection. I wrote a while back that\u00a0\u00a0their yearbook collection\u00a0has incorrectly placed the yearbook from Bowen High School in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}