This is the first prompt in a series of weekly prompts entitled ” The Book of Me, Written By You” by Julie Goucher of AnglersRest. Who are you?:Ask yourself 20 times “Who are you?” Each time you should give yourself a different answer, and if you can easily go beyond 20 then that is fine too.…
Time for a confession. I see that my last post was when I returned from IGHR in 2012! It is now September of 2013. That simple math means I have not written a post in over a year. Well that is about to change! Does that also mean that I have not done anything with my…
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…