New Full RQG Member – Phillip Manley
Phillip has recently moved from student member to full member and has achieved his MSc (Full-time dissertation) Genealogical Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies from the University of Strathclyde. Based in the Scottish Borders, Phillip is especially interested in military history, especially PoWs in Japan in WW2. After researching his mother in laws documentary father, whom she […]
New Full RQG Member – Jenni Phillips
Jenni has now progressed to be a full member of RQG after being a student member. She has achieved a Postgraduate Diploma in Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies (University of Strathclyde) with a PG Dip project focused on late sixteenth century Chancery cases relating to Somerset. She will be starting the MSc dissertation year at […]
New RQG member Pauline Jarvis
Graduating this June with an MSc Genealogy, Palaeography and Heraldic Studies from the University of Strathclyde, Pauline is based in Edinburgh, Scotland although has Glasgow roots. Pauline’s specialty is Scottish research and her Scottish location gives her good access to the National Records of Scotland. Her MSc dissertation was based on medical records, which is […]
Coronation Tales
Following on from yesterday’s spectacular coronation, read about RQG member Jessica Feinstein’s family connection to the coronation of 1937: While researching my great-grandfather, Meyer Loshak (1884–1937), I discovered that his firm had provided the Russian ermine skins for the robe worn by King George VI at his coronation in 1937.