About: Joanne Kenyon
RQG Director
Recent Posts by Joanne Kenyon
RQG Full Response to MOJ on the Storage and Retention of Original Will Records
Following consultation with our membership, the RQG Board of Directors have responded to the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) regarding the storage and retention of original will documents. RQG MOJ Consultation Response 19 February 2024 v2.0
Our membership has reached over 300
We are thrilled to announce that our membership has reached 300! Our 200th full member Aileen Wynne has recently achieved an MA in History of the Family with the University of Limerick. Our full members, combined with our students who are currently studying genealogy at a postgraduate level, takes our total membership to over 300, […]
Book Review: Blood Legacy, Alex Renton (2021)
Book Review by RQG Member Gary Lawrie ‘Blood Legacy – Reckoning with a Family’s Story of Slavery’ by Alex Renton (2021, Canongate – ISBN 978-1-78689-886-9). Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. Alex Renton is a direct descendant of the Fergussons of Kilkerran in Ayrshire who owned and ran plantations in the Caribbean in the […]
RQG response to Ministry of Justice proposal on original Will documents
RQG response to Ministry of Justice (MOJ) proposal on Original Will Documents There is still time for RQG members and student members to respond to the recent email that was sent about the proposed legislation changes to the digitisation, storage and retention of original Will documents. Please email comms@qualifiedgenealogists.org to let the Directors know your […]