Yearbooks from high school or college are one of the most fun set of records for a genealogist to search. It provides you with a ton of story-like information about your ancestor's life. What their interests were, what sports and clubs they participated in, and often some goofy snapshots of them before they settled into being an adult. And of course, you get to see what they looked like.
Here are a few articles that may convince you to research these gems:
- Using Yearbooks For Genealogical Research
- A Genealogy Education is in School Yearbooks
- Genealogy 101: School Yearbooks
And here is an article providing information on where else you can find online yearbooks; some need a subscription and some do not:
Below is a list of links to free online yearbooks from the state:
Please note that some of the yearbooks are not searchable but are an image of each page in the yearbook.
Please note that there may seem to be duplicates. If there are, that means that there are multiple sites where the same schools yearbooks are available online.
(Updated September, 2020)
- Aberdeen - Matawa Regional High School
- Annandale - North Hunterdon Regional High School
- Annandale - North Hunterdon Regional High School
- Asbury Park - Asbury Park High School
- Bayonne - United States Navy Supply Corps School
- Bloomfield - Bloomfield High School
- Bloomfield - Bloomfield High School
- Caldwell - Caldwell University
- Caldwell - Grover Cleveland High School
- Cherry Hill - Cherry Hill High School
- Cherry Hill - Cherry Hill High School East
- Cherry Hill - Cherry Hill High School West
- Cherry Hill - Delaware Township High School
- Clark - A. L. Johnson Regional High School
- Cranford - Cranford High School
- Dover - Dover High School
- East Orange - Clifford J. Scott High School
- East Orange - East Orange High School
- East Orange - Panzer College
- East Orange - Panzer Normal School
- Elizabeth - Thomas Jefferson High School
- Florham-Madison - Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Franklin Lakes - Ramapo High School
- Glassboro - Glassboro State College
- Glassboro - New Jersey State Teachers College
- Glassboro - New Jersey State Teacher's College at Glassboro
- Glassboro - Normal School at Glassboro
- Glassboro - Rowan University
- Glen Ridge - Glen Ridge High School
- Glen Rock - Glen Rock High School
- Grantwood - Cliffside Park High School
- Hoboken - Stevens Institute of Technology
- Irvington - Irvington High School
- Jersey City - John Marshall College
- Jersey City - Saint Peter's Preparatory School
- Keyport - Keyport High School
- Lawrenceville - Lawrenceville School
- Linden - Linden High School
- Little Falls - Passaic Valley Regional High School
- Little Silver - Red Bank Regional High School
- Madison - Brothers College Drew University
- Madison - Madison High School
- Maplewood - Columbia High School
- Maplewood - Columbia High School
- Matawan - Matawan High School
- Metuchen - Metuchen High School
- Metuchen - Metuchen High School
- Montclair - Montclair Normal School
- Montclair - Montclair State College
- Montclair - Montclair State College
- Montclair - Montclair State University
- Montclair - New Jersey State Teachers College
- Morristown - Morristown High School
- New Brunswick - Douglass College
- New Brunswick - Douglass College
- New Brunswick - Livingston College
- New Brunswick - New jersey State College of Agriculture
- New Brunswick - Newark College of Arts and Sciences
- New Brunswick - Rutgers College
- New Brunswick - Rutgers College of Pharmacy
- New Brunswick - Rutgers Preparatory School
- New Brunswick - Rutgers University
- New Brunswick - Rutgers University
- New Brunswick - Rutgers University
- New Brunswick - Rutgers-Camden
- New Brunswick - St. Peter's High School
- New Brunswick - St. Peter's High School
- Newark - Arts High School
- Newark - Barringer High School
- Newark - East Side High School
- Newark - Kean College
- Newark - Kean University
- Newark - Malcolm X. Shabazz High School
- Newark - New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Newark - New Jersey State Normal School
- Newark - New Jersey State Teachers College
- Newark - Newark State College
- Newark - Newark State College
- Newark - Science High School
- Newark - South Side High School
- Newark - Technology High School
- Newark - The New Jersey State Normal School at Newark
- Newark - University High School
- Newark - Vailsburg High School
- Newark - Weequahic High School
- Newark - West Side High School
- North Arlington - North Arlington High School
- North Bergen - North Bergen Junior High School
- Nutley - Nutley High School
- Parlin - Sayreville War Memorial High School
- Passaic - Passaic High School
- Paterson - John F. Kennedy High School
- Phillipsburg - Phillipsburg High School
- Phillipsburg - St. Philip and St. James' High School
- Piscataway - Livingston College
- Plainfield - Plainfield High School
- Princeton - College of New Jersey
- Princeton - Princeton University
- Princeton - Princeton University
- Princeton - Westminster Choir College
- Ramsey - Ramsey High School
- Randolph - Randolph High School
- Red Bank - Red Bank Catholic High School
- Red Bank - Red Bank Regional High School
- Ridgefield - Ridgefield Memorial High School
- Ridgewood - Ridgewood High School
- Roselle Park - Roselle Park High School
- Sayreville - Sayreville Middle School
- Sayreville - Sayreville War Memorial High School
- Scotch Plains - Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School
- South Amboy - South Amboy High School
- South Amboy - St. Mary's High School
- South Orange - Seton Hall University
- Springfield - Jonathan Dayton High School
- Springfield - Jonathan Dayton High School
- Stratford - New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine
- Teaneck - Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Teaneck - Teaneck High School
- Trenton - New Jersey State Teachers College at Trenton
- Trenton - Saint Anthony High School
- Union City - Emerson High School
- Union City - Union Hill High School
- Union City - Washington School
- Upper Montclair - College High School
- Warren - Paterson State College
- Warren - Watchung Hills Regional High School
- Warren - William Paterson College
- Warren - William Paterson University
- West New York - Saint Joseph of the Palisades High School
- West Orange - Mountain High School
- West Orange - West Orange High School
- Westfield - Westfield High School
- Woodbury - Woodbury High School
To see free online yearbooks from other states. please visit the Yearbooks page.
I am continually updating this list, so you may want to revisit later.