Hello List Members: I've run into a problem that my meager research abilities have been totally stonewalled by Bureaucratic limitations. Altho born and raised on the Eastside of St. Paul, I now am a resident of a historic Gold Rush community of Northern California and find on-site Researching in MN is limited to infrequent visits to MN. It concerns former students of the Wheelock Elementary School for the years of 1939 & 1940. The School was located at 1521 Edgerton Street, at the intersection of Edgerton St, and Wheelock Pkwy. ....... Parkway Drive was also an angular cross street. 1) I have a photo of 23 students of Mrs. Helen Henderson's 1939 Kindergarten class. I can definitely recognize 11 students .... I am unable to link a name to the other 12 familiar faces. 2) I have a photo of the 24 students of the 1940 1st grade class of Clara Meyer's. I can definately recognize 10 of these students, but again am unable to link a name to the remaining familiar faces. 3) Logical reasoning dictates that Student Attendee Records would have been made to support further educational requirements at some future date. 4) I have been able to obtain SOME documentation of the current location of these Records ...... the story of Bureaucratic shuffling !! 5) Wheelock School was in DISTRICT 625, whose offices are located at 2102 University Ave. West, St. Paul, MN 55114-1806, Phone (651) 632-3764. These offices have informed me (Sept. 18, 2006) that, "Earlier years we had a library for the school district where archives such as year books. pictures, etc. would be housed. With budget cuts it was disbanded approximately 1982 and it sat in boxes for a few more years. About 10 years ago it was donated to the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul. My suggestion for the wooden structure picture, teachers and students list contact (MHS) Minnesota Historical Society and (RCHS) Ramsey County Historical Society. Addresses as follows:". (list provided) I have searched to the best of my LIMITED abilities the MHS but not the RCHS. On the RCHS Web Site they offer in-house searching for a fee ...... while NOT adverse to paying for a viable search, I am reluctant to pay if (as with MHS who claimed NO Records). I was recommended to search OTHER sites !! I am HUMBLY requesting that someone having Research SKILLS, visit this (RCHS) organization to determine IF said Records are in their Archive ....... if so, I would THEN initiate (AND PAY => either the individual or the RCHS) for applicable Record recovery !! THANX to anyone accepting this challenge !! I can be contacted at < [email protected] > LJ (Bud) Swendner, Jr. It's TUFF to be modest when you're Swedish < [email protected] >

Dear Bud, Would that historic Gold Rush town in northern California by any chance be Nevada City from which I am also trying to conduct St. Paul research? Gae Seal in Nevada City, CA "L. J. Swendner, Jr." <[email protected]> wrote: Hello List Members: I've run into a problem that my meager research abilities have been totally stonewalled by Bureaucratic limitations. Altho born and raised on the Eastside of St. Paul, I now am a resident of a historic Gold Rush community of Northern California and find on-site Researching in MN is limited to infrequent visits to MN. It concerns former students of the Wheelock Elementary School for the years of 1939 & 1940. The School was located at 1521 Edgerton Street, at the intersection of Edgerton St, and Wheelock Pkwy. ....... Parkway Drive was also an angular cross street. 1) I have a photo of 23 students of Mrs. Helen Henderson's 1939 Kindergarten class. I can definitely recognize 11 students .... I am unable to link a name to the other 12 familiar faces. 2) I have a photo of the 24 students of the 1940 1st grade class of Clara Meyer's. I can definately recognize 10 of these students, but again am unable to link a name to the remaining familiar faces. 3) Logical reasoning dictates that Student Attendee Records would have been made to support further educational requirements at some future date. 4) I have been able to obtain SOME documentation of the current location of these Records ...... the story of Bureaucratic shuffling !! 5) Wheelock School was in DISTRICT 625, whose offices are located at 2102 University Ave. West, St. Paul, MN 55114-1806, Phone (651) 632-3764. These offices have informed me (Sept. 18, 2006) that, "Earlier years we had a library for the school district where archives such as year books. pictures, etc. would be housed. With budget cuts it was disbanded approximately 1982 and it sat in boxes for a few more years. About 10 years ago it was donated to the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul. My suggestion for the wooden structure picture, teachers and students list contact (MHS) Minnesota Historical Society and (RCHS) Ramsey County Historical Society. Addresses as follows:". (list provided) I have searched to the best of my LIMITED abilities the MHS but not the RCHS. On the RCHS Web Site they offer in-house searching for a fee ...... while NOT adverse to paying for a viable search, I am reluctant to pay if (as with MHS who claimed NO Records). I was recommended to search OTHER sites !! I am HUMBLY requesting that someone having Research SKILLS, visit this (RCHS) organization to determine IF said Records are in their Archive ....... if so, I would THEN initiate (AND PAY => either the individual or the RCHS) for applicable Record recovery !! THANX to anyone accepting this challenge !! I can be contacted at < [email protected] > LJ (Bud) Swendner, Jr. It's TUFF to be modest when you're Swedish < [email protected] > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message