{"id":6175,"date":"2017-02-12T08:32:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T14:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6175"},"modified":"2017-02-12T08:31:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T14:31:50","slug":"do-you-create-school-chronologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/12\/do-you-create-school-chronologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Create School Chronologies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chronology of school attendance can be good for you to develop for yourself or as something to ask someone you are interviewing. People who moved around a lot as children may remember names of schools they attended better than specific addresses.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted mine as an example. My residence never changed, but the school district moved us around a little bit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>kindergarten-second grade&#8211;Ferris Elementary School, Ferris, Illinois<\/strong> [where my parents both went to grade school for time]\n<p><div id=\"attachment_6176\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/carthage-illinois-high-school-1935.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6176\" class=\"wp-image-6176 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/carthage-illinois-high-school-1935-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"carthage-illinois-high-school-1935\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/carthage-illinois-high-school-1935-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/carthage-illinois-high-school-1935.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph of postcard showing former Carthage High School. Subsequently it was the junior high school.<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><strong>third grade&#8211;Lincoln Elementary School, Carthage, Illinois<\/strong> [where my mother taught elementary school for over thirty years]<\/li>\n<li><strong>fourth-fifth grade&#8211;Union-Douglas School, east of Basco, Illinois<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>sixth grade&#8211;Ferris Elementary School<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>seventh-eighth grade&#8211;Scofield Junior High, Carthage, Illinois<\/strong> [it was the high school when my maternal grandmother attended it]<\/li>\n<li><strong>ninth-twelfth grade&#8211;Carthage High School, Carthage, Illinois<\/strong> [where my parents went to high school]<\/li>\n<li><strong>freshmen year college&#8211;Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>remainder of college (BS and MS)&#8211;Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois<\/strong> [where my mother and several great-aunts and great-uncles attended]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s ok to have blanks, especially as you work back in time with earlier family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chronology of school attendance can be good for you to develop for yourself or as something to ask someone you are interviewing. People who moved around a lot as children may remember names of schools they attended better than specific addresses. I&#8217;ve posted mine as an example. My residence never changed, but the school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}