As the school year comes to a close, I think about how exciting it was to find the school enrollment records for ancestors.  Knowing when each sibling attended school, if there was a discipline issue and what grade they received, provided for a better understanding of their earlier days.

The home addresses listed showed where the family moved to and which children grew up together.  In most cases the parents were listed and that helped clarify a few loose ends of multiple children with the same first and last names.

Hidden Sources by Laura Szucs Pfeiffer discusses school records and their value in finding other genealogical record groups.