Family Tree Search

03/07/2022

Looking forward to doing a talk about "Self Publishing and Oral History" at Gatton this morning.
It has been a while since I have done a talk to a group due to COVID lockdowns but life goes on and NOW is always the right time to get your family history research project completed. 🙂👍

18/12/2021

Merry Christmas and a happy and safe New Year to all my clients and followers.

15/08/2020

Father’s Day gift for just $25 – a step by step guide to write memories which your family will treasure forever. This book is suitable for fathers of all ages. All fathers have a whole life time of memories to share and new fathers can record their memories about the birth of their children and other special moments for their family over time.
Contact Bruce today for express shipping or free local delivery to Toowomba.
Bruce@FamilyTreeSearch.com.au or order onlineand pay via Paypal https://familytreesearch.com.au/your-life-memories-journal/

07/08/2020

More stock has just arrived from the Publisher so let me know if you want to order and I will ensure you get the books delivered before Father's Day.

I also have more stock of Ancestry DNA Kits which I always sell for $125 including return shipping to Ancestry (Ancestry normal price is $129 + $29.99 shipping $158.99) and I can deliver for free to local Toowoomba area. I also include some helpful information about DNA and Cousin Charts with the DNA Kits.

18/06/2020

NEW PRODUCT RELEASE
This step by step guide to 'Write your Life Memory Journal' makes it easy and fun to write your life story. This process allows anyone to spend some time each day and the result will be a wonderful book of treasured memories.
This can be a therapeutic and highly enjoyable process to help with conversations (in person or over the phone) when talking to elderly parents.
The grandchildren will love reading about their Nana or Pop now and also long after Nana and Pop are no longer with them.
Contact Bruce at Family Tree Search and get your copy of this book sent to you.

09/06/2020

Be sure to watch this episode of 'Who Do You Think You Are" tonight as my friend did a lot of hard work 'behind the scenes' researching for this episode and some of the filming was done in the Lockyer Valley. Congrats Jacqui :D

When swimmer Lisa Curry delves into her maternal family past, she finds hard-working German immigrants who risked everything to become the masters of their own destiny

12/05/2020

I recently completed a writing course and it was brilliant. There are so many reasons for us to write our Life Memories but the most important reason is that we need to do it now before it is too late.
The media can use superlatives such as 'unprecedented' on a daily basis and this does nothing but to undermine the value of the words. The COVID19 virus is certainly the "worst thing" to happen to our community since the Spanish Flu in 1919. I hope some positives might come from this terrible situation. Maybe we will all improve handwashing and reduce the amount of influenza. Maybe we will reduce travel due to an increase in the use of teleconferencing.
I also hope there may be an increase in the number of people writing their Life Memories so future generations know more about what has happened due to the COVID19 virus. We can no longer trust the media to record important information for us so we need to take control and write our own personal stories. This is continuing the traditions of our ancestors who passed traditions and knowledge down through the generations with the use of stories and oral history.

16/03/2020

Please phone your elderly family members for a chat 👥 📞☎️📱💞❤️ This may be a good time to ask some questions about your family history?
The elderly are considered 'most at risk' so the advice at the moment is to NOT visit your elderly family members, but please add extra phone calls to them to help them understand during this confusing time for them. A quick (or long) phone call can break the boredom and continually reinforce that they are loved during a time when nobody is visiting them.
Aged Care Facilities have enacted a higher level of control, which may include the restriction of visiting hours so staff can be at the door to take the temperature of all visitors. They may then provide a sticker to indicate that the visitor does not have a high temperature and has completed the form to confirm some medical details relevant to Coronavirus.
Thanks

14/03/2020

I presented a talk at the TDDFHS (Toowoomba and Darling Downs Family History Society) today. I feel sure everyone got some tips and tricks to make their event run much better following the talk.
If you are planning a Family Reunion or would like to know if someone is planning a Family Reunion for your Surname, click the link and Join this FB Group.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PromoteYourFamilyReunion/

08/03/2020

OH, yeah :D

29/02/2020

There is no end to the learning curve for a family historian.

I have recently watched this awesome seminar by a world leader in DNA research in regards to Law Enforcement. I am often asked about this when talking to clients about taking a DNA test. I have a short intro video below FYI. If you are worried, please watch this hour-long webinar as I have because it is very good.
The short answer is ... there is nothing to worry about.
A longer answer is ....
In the USA, Law Enforcement uses STRs (Short Tandem Repeats) of DNA to store in a database that they call CODIS (COmbined Dna Index System). If they arrest someone, they take fingerprints and DNA for STR testing. These results are stored in a massive database (CODIS).

If they get DNA from a crime scene, they do STR testing and look for a 100% match in CODIS. That is traditional Law Enforcement DNA testing in the USA.

Now, ancestry DNA testing uses SNPs, or Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, frequently called SNPs (pronounced “snips”), which are the most common type of genetic variation among people. Each SNP represents a difference in a single DNA building block, called a nucleotide. For example, an SNP may replace the nucleotide cytosine (C) with the nucleotide thymine (T) in a certain stretch of DNA.

Ancestry Autosomal DNA looks for a percentage match to see, firstly, if the 2 samples are related and, secondly, how closely they are related.

So, traditional Law Enforcement DNA was searching for a 100% match, but ancestry DNA is a completely different test procedure and it is looking for a percentage match.

I am unsure what (or if) DNA testing has been used by Australian Law Enforcement.

Please ask if you have any questions about DNA tests.

https://www.rootstech.org/video/dna-genealogy-and-law-enforcement-all-the-facts?fbclid=IwAR3jPOyxX5rMuLU2eF93ZZN5Wm6hVrtimdWorY5IIHQSNtkBchzH7Q_gefM