This has become a literal dream come true for me! Never did I ever dream of learning about my ancestors on TikTok, nor did I ever imagine coming across a page with all of my ancestors and family history stories being brought to life, and even with LIVE tours to go along with it, and story time too for the Castle Crew Members!
Continue reading How I Started Learning About Certain Ancestors and New Discoveries in My Family History Via a LIVE Castle Crew
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.
Continue reading Privatization of Records in Organization, Is It Necessary?
I recently discovered that Family Search has Advanced Strategies for Searching Historical Records, even though I’ve been using Family Search for years I’m still learning. What they did was add a huge database to expand the search and amount of content that can be added for source indexing, which is great.
Continue reading Finding Advanced Strategies for Searching Historical Records
Welcome to my family history blog! If your new here, feel free to explore. Please take note that, even though I have over 30 yrs experience as a family historian, I am not a professional genealogist with years of experience, but now a newby genealogist with years of experience being a family historian.
Continue reading My Immediate Family
As we all know, when we first start our family tree, it can seem very confusing, intimidating, and you may feel lost, and not know where to start!
Continue reading A Journey to Finding Your Roots
My last name comes from the House of Percy, we are an English noble family. With roots to France, and back even further. My ancestors were one of the most powerful noble families in Northern England and for much of the Middle Ages, known for their long rivalry with another powerful northern English family, the House of Neville, which I am also descendant of.
Continue reading My Piercy Roots
I thought about getting a DNA test done for years, but always held off because I didn’t want to spend so much money when there are so many places to get one, but something just wouldn’t let me rest until I got one done! After doing more research, and asking all of my friends where they got theirs done, I still wasn’t sure. So i settled with FTDNA.
Continue reading My Journey to Getting a DNA Test
Have you ever lost family photos and somehow find them on the internet?
Continue reading Finding Old Family PhotosI still have a ton of work to do on my tree, but here are some of my recent findings.
Continue reading Recent findings
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.
DP Family Tree 