I recently started wondering if it is important or not to have all of my family tree public or if I should password protect a certain sections for family only. If I have it public, and it’s only unorganized screenshots, vital records and new findings I’m currently investigating, it makes my blog everywhere and all over, so I made a seperate link for that section, and, so I decided to privatize them for those that are family, extended family, and distant cousins that are also working on the same family tree so we can compare.

I want to keep readily public what has been source indexed, and that which is already public, and being worked on, what I’m currently indexing, which is up to the first 14 to 15 generations at the moment. Some lines I continue to go up a little further and down to make sure all the information is correct. Always finding and adding new, tweaking if it needs it and making sure my grandpa isn’t really my uncle again and vice versa. And if he is, one or the other, work on fixing it. Of course I love to occasionally get lost in a rabbit hole 🕳 on my tree, but I also want to keep those holes separated until I organize them. I have to remember why I started this blog. The purpose of this blog, where I’m going with it and where it’s contents will be placed.

The sections that are password protected, Organizing My Family Tree, and My Family Tree if anyone thinks they may be related to me, or you know you are related to me and interested in what I’ve found via source indexing, and what lines I’m from and working on organizing currently, and so forth to compare to your tree, please feel free to message me privately and I will give you the family pass code. I’ve made a contact form at the bottom of the homepage.

If anyone is interested and just want to look, if you may be related, close or distant. The Family Tree page is my unorganized screenshot photo dump, old findings, new findings unindexed, some indexed, public documents via source indexing that I put all in one place so I can grab easily as I’m organizing, and more. Some of the screenshots are findings from when I got lost in my tree, to help find again via certain lines. Some I don’t know if it is correct, some of it is correct and just not organized yet. As to why it’s not in my organized section.

To keep my blog to its full potential, my hopes are to stay up to date with new genealogy practices, finds, classes, finding new family, and as I continue my studies, research, and work, I will share this information when I can so those new to this journey can learn, and even those that are not new to family history, and genealogy can benefit too. This way, I can pass this info all in one place onto the next generation in my family, and so forth… one day I plan on building my own family history study to keep all the physical copies to pass on too, because what happens if the digital world 🌎 collapsed?

Best Regards,

Dawn Piercy, PhD