High School Yearbooks
Do you still have your High School Yearbooks for the years 1988 or prior?. Memory Lane (i.e., Classmates.com) wants to include your yearbook in their massive collection.
Other sites (Ancestry.com and e-yearbooks.com) have some yearbooks on their sites, but they don't have anywhere near the number of yearbooks in their collection that Memory Lane has.
Having access to the Memory Lane collection has been quite useful in researching UID and MP cases. In several instances, I have found high school portraits for missing persons for whom no photo was previously available. I also believe (though it still hasn't been verified) that I found a portrait of one of the mystery persons in the Rodney Alcala photo collection in a 1970 book for a school in NYC.
In recent months, I have been performing the very tedious task of browsing through 1960's, 1970's and 1980's yearbooks from around the country looking for some of the teens and 20's UID's for whom a clear photo is available. I am currently looking for Buckskin Girl and the 1984 Davie FL Jane Doe w/Curly Blonde hair. I have found some pretty close possibles for both, but were able to rule them out.
Memory Lane has thousands of yearbooks, but their collection is by no means complete. We need a more complete library to assist us in our research. If you are willing to loan your yearbook to Memory Lane to include it in their online library, you can do so by clicking the following link and completing the requested information.
http://www.classmates.com/yearbooks...hitwiseSegment=paid&checkCookie=1329501854682
Memory Lane will pay all the costs of shipping your yearbook to and from their location. Upon completion of the online form linked above, if they don't already have your edition, you will receive in the mail the Fed-Ex shipping boxes, the shipping authorization form, and the necessary paperwork for you to sign. You can then package up the books and drop them off at your local Kinko's. The books will be returned to you in 4-6 weeks.
I have loaned two of my High School yearbooks (1978 and 1981 El Segundo High School), and I am currently loaning them three of my mother's yearbooks (Grand Ledge (MI) High School 1937, 1938, and 1939).
These books are only available to paid subscribers. If you would like to include your yearbook, but are unable to access the collection to verify whether they already have a copy of your year(s), drop me a PM, and I will check for you.