Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):
1) Have you found a unique document or record (e.g., not a vital record, military record, probate record, etc.) that provided new and/or unique information for one or more of your ancestors? How did it affect your research? Please share your find.
2) Write your own blog post, or leave a comment on this post, or write something on Facebook.
Here's mine:
* The 7th semester may be a summer school session where she took two classes - typing and shorthand.
* I never knew that she took two years Latin and of French!
* It looks like she didn't do well in Geometry.
* It looks like Gym didn't count toward the GPA, but she did well in it. Another surprise.
* She received 30 As, 10 Bs and 4 Cs. On a 4-3-2-1 scale for A-B-C-D, the grade point average is 3.59.
The source citation for this record is:
San Diego [Calif.] Senior High School, "Cumulative Record Card," Cum File Cabinet C-D, Betty Virginia Carringer card, 1932-1936; San Diego High School Alumni Association History Center, San Diego, California.
2) Here is my grandfather's report card - he entered SDHS in September 1909 (at age 17) and graduated in June 1914 (at age 22):