You Paid a Fortune for Yearbooks in the '80s — Now They’re Just a Click Away on Classmates Classmates.com has made it possible to revisit those pages without digging through closets, and in doing so, it has given yearbooks a second life. That makes it possible for alumni to track down their own high school memories, and for younger generations to see what their parents and grandparents looked like in their teenage years. Genealogists use Classmates.com to fill in gaps in family trees, spotting a relative in a high school club photo. Writers and historians look at old yearbooks to capture cultural details from different decades. Parents often share their yearbook pages with their kids, creating cross-generational conversations that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.