Christine Cowley

Collector of Stories, Explorer of Perspectives

The Thomas and Mary Ann Percy Family in Canada

By Dean H. Percy (Edited by Christine Cowley)

The Thomas and Mary Ann Percy Family in Canada

Dean Percy traces his family tree and collects family history in this volume that goes back to Thomas and Mary Ann, the first Percys to come to Canada in 1842.

This book is a great example of how family data can be combined with story to create a document that serves as a reference and a sense of ancestry for modern times. It’s a lovely collector’s volume for several generations of the Percy family.

The book was written by Dean Percy, edited by me, with the extraordinary design expertise of Jozef VanVeenan, and published by my imprint, LifeGems Personal Histories, in 2011.


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