Month: January 2018

26 Jan, 2018

Meet an RQG Director- Andy Douglas

Blame Bruce Durie and Ali Macdonald! Having already decided to take a break from my career as an accountant and head of UK corporate finance for a US film company, I met Bruce and Ali on the Strathclyde stand at WDYTYA in 2008. Their enthusiasm inspired me to take the PG Certificate in Genealogical Studies […]

22 Jan, 2018

Meet the RQG Director- Sylvia Valentine

I started researching my mother in law’s family history when my eldest daughter was a toddler, she is now the mother of my grandchild! I returned to work in the 1980s and retired from employment in 2012. Not having been to university when I was younger, I decided I wanted to obtain an academic qualification […]

17 Jan, 2018

New Student member – Margaret Parsons

Qualification achieved or studying for: I am currently studying on the one year Postgraduate Certificate on Genealogical Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies at the University of Strathclyde. Where in the world you are based: I am based in Newcastle upon Tyne and cover the whole of the North East of England in my research. Any special […]