John T. Humphrey, CG, Memorial Lecture

Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP)

Saturday, 10 May 2014, 8:00 a.m., S406

Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) is sponsoring the John T. Humphrey, CG, Memorial Lecture in memory of one of the course coordinators of the first GRIP institute in 2012, who died shortly after presenting his week-long course on German Genealogy. John will be remembered for many things including his German expertise and his Pennsylvania baptismal extract books. Although John lived in Washington, D.C., he was born and raised, and is now buried, in southeastern Pennsylvania. GRIP honors his memory through the lecture, “What’s a Prothonotary? Pennsylvania’s Courthouse Records” presented by his seventh cousin, Elissa Scalise Powell, CG, CGL. Audiences of all levels are welcome who are interested in the types of records found in Pennsylvania courthouse offices, including Prothonotary, Register of Wills and Records of Deeds, with a tutorial on the Russell index system.

Registration is now open for GRIP’s one-week long courses in Pittsburgh July 20-25. Many of which have just a couple of seats left.

For this year only, GRIP is going “on the road” to Orchard Lake, Michigan, August 3-8 where four courses have seats including “Advancing Your Polish Genealogy: 300 Years of Records” with Ceil Wendt Jensen, CG and Dr. Hal Learman; “Determining Kinship Reliably with the Genealogical Proof Standard” with Thomas W. Jones, Ph. D., CG, CGL, FASG, FNGS, FUGA; “Bridging the 1780-1840 Gap: New England to the Midwest” with D. Joshua Taylor, MA; and “Intermediate Genealogy: Tools for Digging Deeper” with Paula Stuart-Warren, CG.

Please visit http://www.GRIPitt.org for more information and to register.

John T. Humphrey, CG, Memorial Lecture