Bloodlines - Touch Not The Cat - Traces - A Scottish - American Genealogy Mystery Novel Series by Thomas McKerley and Ingrid Schippers

Bloodlines Big Time Bloopers… Take 27

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3 minutes 9 seconds
A home made recording by Tom and Ingrid during their book 3 (untitled [...]

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Ready for some self-reflection after the abundant Christmas Holiday?

Download our FREE Bloodlines Family History Guide and explore your past guided by your very own ancestors

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Memories from the 1945 school bench

As my mother’s school friend pointed out to me, my mother and she shared all big events of a life time. Not only did they sit next to each other at school; they also attended their weddings; witnessed the birth of their children and supported each other after the death of their husbands.

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Family History Guide Free Download

Download the Bloodlines Series’ Family History Guide for free and follow the characters of Bloodlines-Touch Not the Cat & Bloodlines-Traces in their quest to find out more about the lives and times of their ancestors

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November 2018 Library talks by Tom McKerley in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire

Tom McKerley will be doing 3 library talks in November 2018, all to do with the ins and outs of researching family history and the [...]

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Family History Writing, Events & Bookreadings

Dear Bloodlines Readers,
It has been a while since you last heard from McKerley & Schippers and what goes on in the sometimes surprising world [...]

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The Learning Curves of Writing: The Birth of a Book

We had never before done much creative writing, or published a novel. Our combined experience depended on Tom’s love for reporting sports (I will not mention his club for fear of diversion from the subject) and my personal development-related manuals, texts and columns

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Tell us about your family history

Do you know what happened in your family generations ago?
Do you have your very own genealogy tale to tell?
We would love to hear [...]

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A perfect mix of warmth, wit and a little eccentricity.

Lovely review from a Macpherson no less…
The August Winner of the ‘Share a Post or Send in a Review’ contest is a Macpherson!
Thank [...]

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And The Winner Is…

Will you be our August 2016 winner of  your very own copy of Bloodlines – Touch Not the Cat or Bloodlines – Traces, to [...]

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Share a Post or Send in a Review and win a Bloodlines Mystery Novel.

We select a winner by drawing an e-mail address from the submissions sent in to info@touchnotthecat.com.

The winner receives a paperback copy of Bloodlines [...]

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June 21st 2016: Bloodlines -Traces paperback available NOW!

New beginnings for Bloodlines-Traces on the day of Summer Stolstice, June 21st 2016
You can order your paperback copy of Bloodlines Traces here

While our [...]

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Bloodlines-Traces: only a few more days to go

I caught myself right in the middle of it this week.
Me, in one of my other lives an energy counsellor, telling people how [...]

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Dentist Waiting Room Quotes & Family Archives

It’s always interesting to observe how information travels from one person to the other and what happens next…….
My dentist seems to be a good [...]

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An introduction to genealogy: Workshops and Skype calls

“ Scotland is rubbish at football, but if Genealogy had a World Cup; Scotland would be in the final”.
Iain Ferguson, Director of The National [...]

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The First Steps Toward Family Tree Research

Sometimes the answers are right on your doorstep! Talk to parents, grandparents, uncles, aunties, (old) neighbors.
ŸRead about the years or era during which [...]

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Fifty Shades of Bloodlines, the genealogy of success

Where does success come from? Who fathered it? Who gave it the unconditional maternal love to make it grow? Which is the gene responsible for [...]

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