Month: November 2021

21 Nov, 2021

NEW RQG member- Ian Mooney

Ian received the Diploma from Strathclyde in the summer of 2021 and is now completing their dissertation for the Masters. It is a study of females transported to Van Diemen’s Land from Limerick and Liverpool. Ian also has a degree in History. Currently based in Lancashire, Ian moved from the South a couple of years […]

17 Nov, 2021

RQG Student Prizes

Every year the Register of Qualified Genealogists (RQG) award prizes (£50 book tokens via Amazon) to students studying at Diploma or Master’s level at the three institutions which are affiliated to RQG: The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies The University of Dundee The University of Strathclyde. The Register of Qualified Genealogists is a professional […]

4 Nov, 2021

New RQG member – Mike Edwards

Mike has a Postgraduate Diploma in Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies, from the University of Strathclyde. Based in Monmouthshire, South Wales, Mike’s location on the Wales-England border is ideally placed to research in Wales and South West England.  (Gloucestershire, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall). Mike’s special interests are Migration to Wales from the Somerset Coalfields Early […]