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Beth Farrar

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Beth Farrar has been writing stories since her parents handed her a library card with which she always took out the allowed five books per week. From that moment on, her imagination was sparked. Encouragement from English teachers set her on a serious path of learning the craft.

From TV scripts to full length movies (none of which came to screen but were for pleasure and practice), she developed her writing skills by exploring various mediums. Filling notebooks with ideas, sketching characters and locations, and inventing sticky situations for the heroes and heroines to survive, is Beth's happy place (besides walking in cemeteries, but that's another story).

For fifteen years Beth wrote a monthly column, Living Country, in her local English l ...more

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	Family Secrets: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 1 4.14 avg rating — 771 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family Mistakes: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 2 4.34 avg rating — 630 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family Promises: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 3 4.41 avg rating — 493 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family Crimes: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 4 4.35 avg rating — 423 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family Christmas: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 5 4.40 avg rating — 371 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family Links: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 6 4.45 avg rating — 299 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family Ties: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 7 4.41 avg rating — 297 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family Vows: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 8 4.52 avg rating — 219 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family Loss: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery Series - Book 9 4.50 avg rating — 195 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family Past: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery Book 10 4.49 avg rating — 178 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Beth Farrar liked Susan H's review of Family Mistakes: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 2: "My Favorite Combination I love reading, especially books that contain, romance, mystery, and genealogy. And I so enjoyed these first two books of this series and can’t wait to read the next one. 😊"
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Beth Farrar liked Sarah Nelson's review of Family Mistakes: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 2: "I am glad I went ahead and read Book 2. The wrinkles I complained about in Book 1 seem to be ironed out. What remains is a sweet book with lovable, interesting characters. The mysteries are simple and easily solved. I don’t say that to complain! Some" Read more of this review »
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Beth Farrar made a comment on Jeanette Horn’s review of Family Lies: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery Series " I understand your comments, Jeanette, but this gang is elderly and I can't give any of them heart attacks. I think Ruth finding Jeremy was the closest ...more "
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Beth Farrar liked Nikolina's review of Family Lies: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery Series: "Great Stories Mysteries Intreque As always the research ideas for ancestors demonstrated are very helpful in my own research. I am amazed at how many plots Beth introduces to weave her desired plot line through this book. She weaves them in as other " Read more of this review »
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Beth Farrar made a comment on Lisa Shower’s review of Family Secrets: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 1 " Glad you continued, Lisa! Thank you! "
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Beth Farrar made a comment on SpookySoto’s review of Family Secrets: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 1 " Would like to hear what you thought of the second book, it's definitely more genealogy! ...more "
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Beth Farrar made a comment on Tami’s review of Family Secrets: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 1 " Hi Tami! I hope you gave the second book, Family Mistakes, a try. The rest of the series is definitely more genealogy, but this first book had to set ...more "
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“What happened, happened. I can’t change it. But I can deal with the now.”
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“I’m using a site called Automated Genealogy for the 1901 Canadian census. And here,” she pointed to the page on the screen, “it’s separated into the provinces first. So, we’ll pick Quebec, and the next screen shows all the districts. Which one should I choose?”
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