If you are having a problem getting started I would encourage you to make a list or time line. Think about the different periods of your life. Start by listing important events that have occurred during your lifetime.
Birth
Kindergarten
Grade School
High School
Graduation
First Job
Military Service
First Date
Marriage
Birth of children
Make a list of other events that happened during your lifetime.
Your first pet
The first time you went camping or on a family trip
Places you have traveled to
Places you have lived
Your favorite book or comic book
First movie that you saw
First TV program that you saw
Your first car
Shirley G. Hodges
Use family albums to jog your memory. With age our memories can get a little fuzzy. When we look at old photos it helps us to remember events as they were. You might find one of yourself with your favorite outfit. I was pleased to find one of me carrying a purse that my parents had given me. I find it interesting to see how I delighted in things that made me feel grown up. Some things marked a real passage for us. I remember the first time I was able to wear nylon stockings. It was for my brother's wedding. I felt absolutely grown up at the advanced age of eleven.
THE NATIONAL YEARBOOK PROJECT
RootsWeb is host to the National Yearbook Project:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usyrbook/.
National coordinator Judy White has organized the project by location.
Most submissions are from America, but foreign contributions are
welcome; Judy is especially trying to build items from Canada and the
British Isles.
Contributions can be individual photographs, indexes, and
transcriptions. A single page or an entire book can be submitted, as
well as links to external sites. Graduation and commencement programs
are also welcome items.
One of the highlights of the project is the classified ads. There are
people looking for yearbooks and others selling. Maybe you'll get
lucky and find a match.
U.S. SCHOOL YEARBOOK DATABASE
Ancestry.com has digitized yearbooks into the U.S. School Yearbook
database. If you don't have a subscription, try your local library for
access. To date, there are more than 1 million names indexed. The
collection includes books from middle school, junior high, and high
school.
Ancestry.com encourages submissions, so if you are inclined, send a CD
with images scanned at no less than 300 dpi. It should include the
front and back covers, as well as all interior images. If you are
unable to send a CD, contact them for other arrangements.
MyFamily Yearbook Submissions
4800 North 360 West
Provo, UT 84604
yearbooks@ancestry.com.