Clare O'Grady

As part of Explore Your Archives Launch week, RQG student member Dawn Jennifer has written a piece about Home: Social distancing? Not necessary with an online archive! Home “1. A village or town; a vill[age] with its cottages. 2. A dwelling-place, house, abode; the fixed residence of a family or household …” The Shorter Oxford […]

Every year the Register of Qualified Genealogists (RQG) award prizes to students studying at Diploma or Masters level at a number of institutions including the University of Strathclyde. The prizes are awarded in recognition of those students who achieved the top mark for their final project at Diploma level and the MSc dissertation. We are […]

Recently based in Derby after living in Lincoln for 15 years, Colin has an MSc in Genealogy, Palaeography  and Heraldry (Strathclyde) and a BA Honours in History (South Africa) His areas of interest are South Africa and Suffolk – as a consequence of his South African origins and his paternal ancestry. Colin is  in the […]

Sarah has an M.Litt from Dundee University in  Family and Local History. Her parents started researching their family tree 10 years before she was born, so she really have been involved in research her whole life! Some of her earliest memories are of graveyards and Lancashire Archives. Whilst doing her first degree (B.Ed from Sussex), […]