In trying to determine where my aunt taught school in the 1930s and 1940s, I’m relying on digital versions of newspapers and yearbooks as I have no record of where she taught. Her name, Margaret Habben, is relatively uncommon which makes it easier. However, if the name had been more common, adding what she taught as a search term would have helped to narrow the results.
Yearbooks were an obvious item to search and newspapers were used as her employment by the local school board was often mentioned as was the occasional field trip with students.
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My grandmother had a perfect attendance record as well as two other siblings. However, two of them went to school in two other school districts. So, I cked out the district numbers and was able to find one school district bUT not the other. There were quite a few schools at that time. The certificates had the superintendents name & one other persons name. Good luck in ur endeavour.
I can’t speak for all states, but many have “Teacher’s Retirement” which is a fund set aside for retirement, They would have public school teacher’s records and they MIGHT help .:}
I had thought about that too. I’ll have to look into that.
Our local paper “always has” and still does print a list of the teachers employed for the year in the issue that concerns “school is starting for the year”. Another possibility is finding a student who was there … for our 50th reunion the committee was able to quickly compile a list of grade school teachers..because we all remembered. (Of course there was only one class per year and all in one building.) We also made a pretty good list of the kids who were with us each year, which ones left, etc. If you don’t know who to ask, it would work in our town to ask the librarian to tell you who would be just the sort to be remembering all that and delighted to share her/his knowledge.
The school board meeting records in each district record new hires and retirement/separation of services. Some of these might be printed in the newspapers as well.
I assume you have an obit?
The problem is that I don’t know all the districts she taught in, particularly before her marriage. The obituary doesn’t have much in the way of specifics about her teaching career.