Welcome

Welcome to Tdr Now & The Heritage Hunters Podcast with Host Dawn Piercy AKA Mary Caulder Stewart, and her somewhat trusty AI bot Heather the Heritage Huntress, Together they are climbing trees, and turning leaves one branch at a time! Grab your saucers because we’ve got a pot of tea, and it’s about to be spilt!

Do you love old school monarchs? Royals like King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, to name a few. Ever wonder what would happen if they happened to be your great aunt’s, uncles, direct ancestors? 1st cousins but so many times removed?

That happened to me after 25 years of research,  got a DNA test and was left more confused than answers. Found my Native American ancestors, and yes I tested positive DNA to them too. I tested positive to the 10,000 year old Spirit Cave Mummy in Nevada. I tested to an Incan mummy found, and a Mayan 7 yr old sacrifice victim as well as up to my 6th great grandmother being the last full blooded in my lines. That is what I took my DNA test and digging in my tree for.  And looking in DAWS Rolls … an endless headache until a breakthrough in 2015, then 2016, then 2017 little by little I broke down those walls. 2017 was the first DNA test autosomal which pulls anyone you match to. I found some really close relatives that were lost. Then I got a 2nd DNA test mtDNA FULL Sequence. Both at Family Tree DNA.  I took those test and they merged with My Heritage, whom found a Half sister for me. I have a wonderful and beautiful family across the world, but somehow I feel my heart and love expand across the world. From my father’s time stationed while in the Military. For more you will have to dig. It’s on the Family History Blog seperate from this blog and podcast. Available via Thunder’s Reign.

Tune into this podcast, learn about them in a non bias way from someone that is a DNA tested direct descendant from many of them.

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Please don’t get us mixed up with the wonderful podcast that is not associated in anyway with us. And not the same. They do excellent work and I don’t want to take away and was unaware of the same at first, hence the adjustments over time with due respect… so I want to pay homage to those genealogist. We here are Tdr Now & The Heritage Hunters Podcast with Dawn Piercy and The Heritage Huntress (Heather) which is an AI bot on Instagram…  I built my own AI to help me cross reference and grab working links for me to speed up my source indexing ancestors and she helps other people do this too for free. It has helped me break down a few brick walls this way.