Even though the last day of IGHR was only a half day, we did not slack on learning. Our topics of the day were Church records and Newspaper research. Lloyd Bockstuck led us with Church records and John Colletta presented Newspaper research. Both instructors gave valuable insight into each of these records and what can…
Day 4 of IGHR has now come to an end. This was another very full day. Today in my course, Intermediate Genealogy & Historical Studies, we spent the day on the following topics; Westward Expansion, Lineage Societies, and Guides to Manuscripts Collections. Lloyd de Witt Bockstruck, our course coordinator, presented the entire day. Again the…
I can’t believe it is the end of day 3 for the Institute of Genealogy & Historical Research (IGHR) at Samford University! I am enjoying myself very much and am a little sad to know that we are past the halfway mark of our week here. Today was a very busy day for course 2…
I woke up this morning ready to start the second full day of IGHR. Apparently I was moving a little slow and time got the best of me. Had to grab breakfast to go and I arrived on campus as the bells were ringing. I made it to my class a a few minutes late.…
Today was the first day of classes. I woke up very refreshed after a good night sleep. The hotel was very comfortable. I had breakfast at the hotel and drove to the Samford campus. If we had a car with us, we were given parking permits to use for the week. Parking was close to…