Photoessay #2858 - Going Back and Back

Last week at my Geneaology group, Jill mentioned something that she has experienced that resonated with me.  Sometimes you have to go back and back to the same record or document.  Because you see different things every time.  The information you may seek might be right there in front of you but you can't see it.  You look at it again and, bang, there it is.

The Zunder family scrapbooks are like that.  I've seen them several times and, every time, I see them differently.  So many aspects.  So many things you look past thinking it's not important and then you wonder why you didn't notice this very important thing?

I remember puzzling about requesting the "Board of Education Report fo the Majority and Minority" etc from 1878.  Did I really need that?  Need I take the trouble and order it through Interlibrary Loan.  Turns out to be completely crucial.  Of course, I needed it.  Or the writeup in the Oct and November 1878 papers about the devotional exercise controversy.  The answer to the Hamilton Street School questions were right there in those articles but I just couldn't see it for the longest time.

So it will be this trip.  Assuming weather in Connecticut can hold for the next two weeks.  We will concentrate on the scrapbooks. Again.  But I'm wondering where else to go.  There's just gotta be something at Yale.  It's the elephant in the living room.  I've tried to work with a Yale student.  I've sent email, I've made phone calls.  There's something useful and helpful there but I don't see it yet.

The next work centers around the scrapbooks.  With them Maier's views of himself and his community.  There's more to know, always more to know.

This time, the surgical strike.

Even going forward, to my parents, what about them?

Picture of Marvin, the archivist at the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven.  Look at all of these boxes and the infamous step ladder (Mary Ann and I are sure he's going to fall off that ladder).  More information indeed might be there other than the great and glorious Yale University