Q. I want to find school pictures and other pictures of my Jackalow family, who came over to Ellis Island in 1914. How can I track them down?

A. If you're looking for school pictures of your relatives, you first need to establish where and when they attended school. According to Kathleen Hinckley's book Your Guide to the Federal Census (Better-way Books, $21.99), US census schedules began reporting school attendance in 1840. The census will provide you with proof your ancestors attended school and will tell you where they lived at the time. Some localities also took separate school censuses.