My Trails into the Past

It's  Saturday Night  -  time for more  Genealogy Fun!  Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is to: 1) Determine which event in your ancestral history that you would love to be a witness to via a Time Machine.  Assume that you could observe the event, but not participate in it. 2) Tell us all about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post . Like Randy, I have many brick walls and I have written before about one of my biggest I’d like to solve. You can see here , along with more links to previous posts about my trials and tribulations. I would love to discover the birth parents of my 3X-great-grandfather, Samuel Johnston, who was born about 1816 in South Carolina. I am hoping that in the process, I would learn which county this happened in, so I can hope to continue the line further back. I have been stuck in Yalobusha County, Mississippi where the family appeared ...