52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 29: Challenge: What I Learned at GRIP to Help Me Solve My Samuel Johnston Challenge
This is my second year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. I have already written about my current challenge of trying to solve the origins and parents of Samuel Johnston (1816-1869) here and here . I just returned from attending the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh , abbreviated GRIP, where I attended the week-long class, “Tools and Strategies for Tackling Tough Research Problems,” coordinated by Kimberly Powell and included instructors, Angela Packer McGhie, Karen Stanbary, and Karen Mauer Jones. You can read about the course on the above link. I brought this problem to the course. Our pre-class instructions were to pick a tough problem and write it up to share with other classmates. I had attempted to do that—many times even—because I hav...