For a limited time, Ancestry is offering free access to more than 450,000 yearbooks in the United States, Canada, and England, and MyHeritage has opened up access to its US yearbook collection.
Until Sunday, April 26, you can view Ancestry’s yearbook collection by visiting Ancestry.com/Yearbooks. Ancestry’s collection is called U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1999, but there is a significant number of books from most Canadian provinces, and I also found some from England. Given the name of the collection, it is safe to assume the majority of yearbooks are American.
MyHeritage has gone a step further by opening up access to its United States yearbook collection, from 1890 to 1979, until May 23.
In addition, following the successful release of MyHeritage In Color™ (10 million photos were colorized in the first three months), one of the ideas raised by the MyHeritage team was to apply this technology to records, in cases where black and white photos are abundant and colours could enhance the records. They focused their attention on the US yearbook collection, so you can now view the entire collection of US yearbooks in colour.
Anyone can access the yearbooks on MyHeritage for free, without even having to sign up.
Anyone who shares a MyHeritage yearbook page on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram with the hashtags #LookingGood and #FreeYearbooks and tags @MyHeritage will enter a draw. Each week we’ll select one lucky winner who will receive a free MyHeritage Complete subscription.
