<p>Hi
Is there a specific place on the Yale websites where we can find out which residential colleges our family members stayed in while matriculating at Yale?</p>
<p>Do I have to check each residentail college separately?</p>
<p>If admitted, you can probably send a request to the registar, stating who you are and who your relative was, and why you want to know. They MIGHT tell you.</p>
<p>Why don’t you ask your family members directly?</p>
<p>There are several family members who attended Yale and are since deceased. Beyond the so and so graduated from Yale…don’t know much…</p>
<p>googling did bring up the yearbook pages so I know which class year, how many in the class etc…the one relative was there pre ww1</p>
<p>wondering about residence college etc</p>
<p>I hiiiiiiiiiiiighly doubt it would be online. Your best bet is, as other people have said above me, to call them and see if they can look it up for you in their database. Although… pre WWI… that’s pretty ancient 
I wouldn’t get my hopes up of them actually having consistent records. But who knows, right? :P</p>
<p>Residential college system at Yale started in 1933, which is post WW I by fifteen years…</p>
<p>Not only did the college system start later but most of the campus was built for that. I lived on the site of Osborne Hall, a lovely building with curved steps that faced the intersection of College & Chapel. Some of the Old Campus buildings remain, notably Lawrence and of course Connecticut Hall but not much else.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>by putting
“Name Class of Yale” in a google…</p>
<p>I found pics of every page of the yearbook etc…</p>
<p>and info on the class of 1919, 1921, </p>
<p>the web is great for research -
turns out more than one family member was at the school…</p>
<p>Really do you want a boost because a distant relative went to the university ages ago? I mean legacy admissions are meant to benefit people who are actively involved and donate to the university. I doubt your family is involved and I doubt even more if they have donated anything to the university. Stop trying to claim legacy status, it is sad.</p>
<p>If you can find someone with an alumni directory, that has the colleges in it. They do a new one every ten years or so. It only works for people who were alive when they put it together, though (or for people who died but they didn’t find out I guess).</p>
<p>One can merely want to research family history. Nothing in the first post says this is for admissions. The point made by some of us is that the residential college system didn’t exist then. It is possible you can find that some were in Sheffield, which started back around 1850 I remember - certainly pre-Civil War - and which was the engineering / science school. Degrees would say S on them. If I remember, it was all but gone in the 1950’s but I don’t remember the exact details. The OP may be referring to Sheffield - which had the full name of Sheffield Scientific School - not to “residential colleges.” Other than that, it was Yale College.</p>
<p>^^^ exactly</p>
<p>Grandfather says–“where is kiddo looking…yada yada…”</p>
<p>“oh x,y,z,and yale…”</p>
<p>“Yale, oh did you know that so and so went there?”</p>
<p>Really?</p>
<p>Googling found several so and sos of the family did indeed go to Yale back in the day…</p>
<p>Who knew? kinda fun ;o)</p>