Comments on: U.S. Yearbooks Collection Gets Major Upgrade/New Photo Sweepstakes on Facebook

By: swayam

swayam — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:04:02 +0000

Enter the Find the Famous Yearbook Photo Sweepstakes on Facebook to locate additional photos of high-profile people and a winner will be chosen randomly.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:39:28 +0000

Is this sweepstakes even legal?

Per the rules “NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.”

You have to be a paying member of Ancestry.com to enter. I would call that a purchase.

Dialing my attorney general…

By: swayaminfotech

swayaminfotech — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:17:59 +0000

Interesting, but I won’t turn on Facebook apps and give access to my profile just to enter.

By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:05:38 +0000

I was researching, George Allen “Pat” Summerall, b 1030. Columbia High School, University of Arkansas, who later became a famous football player and a broadcaster. Not to be found in index. I FOUND HIM ON GOOGLE WITH NO PROBLEMS, mmm…

At Columbia High School in Lake City, Florida, Summerall played football, tennis, baseball, and basketball.[1][2][dead link] Although basketball was his favorite sport, he was recognized as an All-State selection in basketball and football.[3] He was inducted into the FHSAA hall of fame and was later named to the FHSAA’s All-Century Team.

[edit] CollegeSummerall played college football from 1949 to 1951 at the University of Arkansas, where he played defensive end, tight end, and placekicker positions. He graduated from UA in 1953.

[edit] ProfessionalSummerall spent ten years as a professional football player in the National Football League, primarily as a placekicker. The Detroit Lions drafted Summerall as a fourth-round draft choice in the 1952 NFL Draft.[4] Summerall played the pre-season with the Lions before breaking his arm, which ended the year for him.[5] After that season, he was traded and went on to play for the Chicago Cardinals from 1953 to 1957 and the New York Giants from 1958 to 1961, during which he was a part of The Greatest Game Ever Played. His best professional year statistically was 1959, when Summerall scored 90 points on 30-for-30 (100%) extra-point kicking and 20-for-29 (69%) field goal kicking.

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:11:58 +0000

Does Ancestry accept donations of old yearbooks? If so, please post information on where they can be sent.

By: PJCopp

PJCopp — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:57:56 +0000

Well, this is limited in scope, but the real problem is that general (global searches) do not bring results for this database. So, you need to go there and do searching, and I found the best results using only a last name, as the first name is often omitted or abbreviated, and the inferred date of birth can be very far off, especially in cases of graduate programs and degrees. Some normalization of school names would make this more useful.

By: Matt Hall

Matt Hall — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:03:05 +0000

There is no chance that I will find anyone in this collection. I did some more hunting around and I nearly every school I checked only has 1 year available. I also looked and the cities for my father and wife aren’t even listed.

By: Matt Hall

Matt Hall — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:57:00 +0000

I just searched for myself and when none of the results were relevant, I decided to browse the individual records only to find that the 2 high schools I attended aren’t available, but the town rival schools are. Go figure.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:59:24 +0000

The OCR indexing has improved? If what I have seen just in my first few searches is anything to go by, it must have been truly appalling before.

Take the yearbook page which refers to “Dorothy Alischer – Library Club” and which goes on to say “Quiet and Studious is our Dot …” She has been indexed three times – first as “Dorothy Alisherlibrary”, second as “Quiet”, and thirdly as “Dot”! Other ‘names’ indexed on the same page include President Chester Andersonclass, Lovely, Smiling, and Dorothy Ballishswimming.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:21:55 +0000

Interesting, but I won’t turn on Facebook apps and give access to my profile just to enter.