Hello!

Glad you made it, I’ve been looking to put my family tree and all my findings together all in one place for quite some time now, and finally, I just don’t have any more room in my cloud or my gallery! I’ve gotten raw data, and documents as well, hundreds of them and, well now, I have a special place, for memories and my tree.

A little about me and my adventures before I get into sharing my tree and organizing this new blog.

My name is Dawn Piercy. I am one of the many Family Historians in my family, both maternal, and paternal. My grandmother Bernice (pictured above) got me into family history as a child, not telling me many details, as she was a humble woman, but rather told me of a few special ancestors that she adored and a cousin, but not much more than that, except her line comes from a couple well known famous ancestors, which you will see as I add my tree.

When I was 18 years old, she passed me a stack of papers, a little information on our family tree that she had hand written down, but only the first 3 to 5 generations. I didn’t really know anything more than that. PERIOD. I was so lost.

My grandmother was a proud LDS woman and told me to go to the LDS churches family history center. I thought why not and gave it a shot!!! It was free! I stayed there for hours, got to know some people, ended up getting baptized and signed up for some family history classes. From there I made a tree on family search. (It’s free)

Click on family to start your own!

After of being stuck for more than 2 decades it seemed, I took more classes, learned how to make Gedcom files and complete source indexing, for my own tree and to help others that were stuck when I couldn’t get anywhere on mine. At one point I took on too much with helping everyone else and not my own, and really got burned out for awhile. So now I can only share and if anyone needs guidance, I’ll help if I can, and lead you in the right direction, but I won’t build a tree and do all of someone else’s work anymore.

There is an awesome genealogy group on Twitter with a ton of resources as well. If you’re looking to build, and source indexing yourself (gathering birth certificates, death certificates, military records, etc.)

My goal is to have a studio just for genealogy and be able to have one area that is s few stories tall to place family portraits and the tree 🌳 on the wall. I am still learning myself and growing as a family historian. I am human, that is why I source index to correct and make sure everyone is where they go. I did also get a DNA test done on ftdna (Family Tree DNA) , I got the family finder so far. I’d also like to get my DNA tested on other sites to compare.

What I really like about the family finder, is it is both maternal and paternal, you get your Ethnicity report and Ancient DNA, with migration routes of my ancestors along with their DNA dig sites.

Happy journey everyone. I wish you the best in your family history findings!!!

~Dawn Piercy, PhD