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…
I am attending the Institute of Genealogy & Historical Research (IGHR) at Samford University for the first time this year. This is a week long institute that is held every year in June. There are several courses to choose from and this year I enrolled in Course 2: Intermediate Genealogy & Historical Studies. I decided…
When my mother was 3 years old, she was living at the above address. When you lived in a rural area, you did not have street names and house numbers. All I had was this address I pulled from her baby book. A rural mail route is not something you can enter directly into the…
Today I was going through some of my miscellaneous files and folders. One of them was a folder from a trip to DeSoto, MO in 2007. This is the birthplace of my grandmother, Margaret Helen Snyder. As I was going through this folder, which mostly contained itineraries, maps and cemetery listings, I noticed something that…