Ghostly Genealogy!
This Halloween, we asked our members for any eerie discoveries in their research. Here’s what they told us: I once had someone ask me if I could help her find out about a ghost in her unused spare room that she was painting. It was a little girl but the family who owned the house […]
RQG Prize Winners 2022
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 […]
How successful is commercial DNA testing in resolving British & Irish cases of unknown parentage?
This new RQG journal article by Maurice Gleeson, Donna Rutherford, John Cleary [QG] and Michelle Leonard characterise the type of people trying to resolve unknown parentage cases in the UK and Ireland, and how successful their efforts are, using commercial DTC (direct-to-consumer) DNA tests. To find out more and to read the article for free: […]