SNGF -- What Are Your Major Genealogy Research Challenges?

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Our assignment tonight from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to: 

1)  What are your major genealogy challenges - the family mysteries that you haven't been able to crack to date? 

2)  Tell us about five of your real genealogy challenges with a short paragraph, and link to blog posts if you have written about them.

Here's mine:
1. I would like to know the origins of Samuel Johnston and his wife Elizabeth McCormack, both of South Carolina. I have them firmly in Yalobusha County, Mississippi, and many of their children were born in the 1840s somewhere in Alabama. The issues are I have no idea where in South Carolina they came from, Johnston is a common name, and South Carolina didn’t require marriage registrations until the 20th Century. I have written about them here and here.

2. I would like to know the origins and parents of David Rodgers and Rebecca Waddel, who were also born in South Carolina, and later lived in Chattooga County, Georgia. See number one for reasons this is a problem. I have written about this problem here.

3. I would like to know the parents of Jeremiah Sullivan and his wife, Mary Sheehan, both of County Cork, Ireland. Irish records, especially this particular parish, are sparse. I have written about it here and here.

Of course I have more end-of-the-line ancestors, but the above three have stumped me the most.

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