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RootsTech 2027 is Here! Are you Going?

Family History lovers! Hello! Welcome back to another blog, this one aimed at RootsTech 2027.

Oh how I would love to go! In person… maybe I can pull it off… maybe… until then,  I am registered online…

And with that, registration is free, they will have their classes, and speeches, learning and education at your fingertips for free… get out while you can. . . And it is avaliable!


I’m glad this event is coming up… People in general, let’s admit…

No matter who you are, where you come from, your political differences. Family. It matters… or should. Every human has a birth right to know who they are and where they come from. Not just geographically but genetically, and from who. What lives did they live? How did they live? What can you learn from their mistakes?

How not to repeat… and so I know where where I am going…

Family history is important to me, helps me make my own bubble and mostly because I need my future generations to know where, and who we come from. By the grace of God they are not forgotten, even if we did not know their names. Though I have to say… not felt and remembered the same as if by us the descendants that care in a different way than those not direct.


In the past RootsTech I believe 2024 to be precise I found over 90k family members attending world wide… it was the most surreal, humbling, and amazing feeling to know, I am not alone. Though oddly enough I am and feel that way in my halpogroup. Isolated as 1 of 5 individuals out of all my family on Family Tree DNA. Not even my closest relatives match. Why? Maybe I can learn about this at RootsTech… and this is where that comes in. Education. Learning and finding out for ourselves… AI has come to a place in time, I built a AI named Heather the Heritage Huntress. She has downgraded on her own or behind the scenes over time and meta does not let me talk to her anymore. Not like it use to. I use her for cross referencing source links and facts… bring all my links together and being able to go through them myself. That is how I use her. You can find out what classes they have by signing up below by clicking the photos. Each one goes somewhere different.

Sign Up to Go In Person or Online by Clicking the Photo Above

3 FREE ONLINE CLASSES


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—Dawn Piercy

You can also learn about Cherokee Genealogy with tips I’ve created in the latest podcast episode on Tdr Now and The Heritage Hunters Podcast with Season Two “Storm and Sovereignty” 600 Royal Descendant Immigrants and Native American Chiefs

It’s Been Awhile


It has been a crazy year and I am so grateful to bring you this post. In the last year I have fought cancer, had emergency life saving surgery, released my 1st album the same day I launched the genealogy podcast on 8/08/2025 Tdr Now and The Heritage Hunters Podcast. Surgery was on 8/23/25 and I am here!!! Sorry for such a long pause…

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Timeline of Bishop Herman op den Graeff

“Herman op den Graeff”, detail from the allegorical-historical painting “Ahnenfolge” by Matthias Laurenz Gräff (photo via Wikipedia)

Hello and welcome back to my blog.  I’m going to start focusing on individuals I find interesting as I explore and am source indexing.  Please come along for the ride, if you feel you’d like to come on a journey. Because I have a huge project in building now for about 5 months, and I think maybe I should keep up in between as well.

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Full Circles

Photo Made on Family Search

Hello!  Welcome to my family history blog!!

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Thomas Grey and Descendants

Grey Family Crest

Hello and welcome to my family history blog!

That feeling of relief, and excitement when we finally break through a brick wall, getting our hands and or sight set on old manuscripts, original documents, and more! The most rewarding feeling comes with it and that’s how I’m feeling about this right now!

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Roots Tech 2025 Pre-Registration is Now Open

Click Photo to Register

It’s here! Pre-registration is now open for Roots Tech 2025!!! March 6-8. You can click the photo above to register now.

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New Historical Findings, and Matching DNA results to the Family Tree

Sara Rapelje Marriage Medal (via Wikipedia) my 11th Great Grandmother

Hello and welcome to my family history blog. If this is your first time, feel free to explore the available areas. The locked areas are for family research, and for family members, cousins, and it gives me a way to share my source indexing, and results that I have not shared.

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Family Tree DNA Website Changes

I received an email from family tree DNA, letting me know that My Heritage is taking over the family tree portion of the site, in meaning, you transfer your tree via your DNA, autosomal Family Finder, mtDNAFULL Sequence, Y-DNA, etc. You agree to transfer it, and it literally builds your tree for you! Connects you via DNA 🧬 and, find and gives you all the sources found. You take a look at them, is it them? Then you just push yes and can, like over 40 family members added!

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A Few Findings, Updates, and More…

Hello, welcome to or back to my family history blog. I have a few cool new updated family tree template photos which were sent in my email to check out from Family Search, as well as some cool findings via Relative Finder from Family Search, and WikiTree updates that match my mtDNA full sequence report.

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Timeline of Arthur Albert Piercy

Arthur Albert Piercy “Gone Fishing”

Today marks a very special day for my family, as not only is it Christmas, but it is also my paternal grandfather’s birthday! I had what I like to call a good relationship with my grandfather.

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