RQG takes particular pleasure in acknowledging the effort and commitment being made by students who are devoting two or even three years to advanced study in genealogy and family history. Our student members are entitled to many of the benefits enjoyed by Qualified Genealogists, and they are guaranteed to be accepted as full members once they have received their qualification. This page shows some of our 100+ student members. These are names for the future in genealogy and family history.
Brambill, Deborah deborahbrambill@student.regqualgenes.org Deborah has attained the IHGS Higher Certificate in Genealogy and is studying for the IHGS Advanced Diploma. She is an experienced genealogist based in Nottinghamshire with a particular interest in the Midlands. She has a deep interest in social history and loves exploring the records left by our ancestors.
Having decided to turn a lifelong interest in genealogy to the next level, Tom is currently pursuing a PG certification at the University of Strathclyde. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. His research interests include early New England, US Civil War, US westward migration, and the UK West Midlands.
Sarah is studying part time for the Higher Certificate in Genealogy on the IHGS Correspondence Course whilst working as a long-haul pilot based at Heathrow. She has 20 years of experience as an amateur genealogist tracing family in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire and Cumbria. She is based in Bingley, West Yorkshire.
Stacey is based in Coventry and is studying the PG Certificate in Genealogical, Palaeographic & Heraldic Studies at the University of Strathclyde. She is taking a career break from the education sector to focus on genealogy. Her interests include women’s/social history, military ancestors, convict transportation, domestic service, and genetic genealogy.
Lorna is studying part-time for the IHGS Higher Certificate after being interested in family history for over 20 years. Originating from Kent, she now lives in Shropshire after a spell in Gloucestershire. Research interests include South-East Kent, endogamy and genetic genealogy across borders, such as tracing her partner’s Ukrainian ancestry.
Paul is a Classics graduate of Durham University and now lives in France. Having started researching his family history forty years ago, he recently gained the PG Certificate at Strathclyde and will start the Diploma later this year. Research interests include the North of England, military, merchant marine and France.
Rachel is presently pursuing her Higher Certificate in Genealogy with IHGS. Coming from a background in trademark law, she is in the process of shifting her focus towards genealogical research. Hailing from New Zealand, with ancestral roots in Lancashire, and currently residing in Italy, she harbours a special fascination for migration patterns.
Based in Ottawa, Canada, Kelly is studying for the University of Strathclyde’s PG Diploma in Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies. She is currently focused on slavery-era research, including as a volunteer with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at UCL as it seeks to illuminate enslaved people’s lives through its Valuable Lives project.
Karen lives in Cheshire and was a Professor at the University of Manchester, and Dean of a School of Pharmacy in Los Angeles. Having been researching her family history for 30+ years, Karen is undertaking the PG Certificate in Genealogical, Palaeographic & Heraldic Studies at the University of Strathclyde. Her ancestral roots centre mostly around Liverpool and other places in Lancashire.
Warwickshire-based Kirsty is studying for the University of Strathclyde’s PG Certificate. She has over thirty years’ experience of genealogical research, house history and local history in England and Wales. Her particular area of expertise is the history and genealogy of Britain’s Anglo-Spanish (including Basque, Catalan, Galician and Filipino) communities during the long nineteenth century.
Rachel is a UK-based forensic and investigative genetic genealogy specialist and holds the PG Certificate in Genealogical, Palaeographic & Heraldic Studies from the University of Strathclyde. She has worked on, and appeared on screen for Who Do You Think You Are? and the forthcoming Born From the Same Stranger.
Peter is based in Greater Manchester and was a former Forensic Psychiatric Nurse and Senior Manager in Health, Housing and Social Care. Having been researching his family history for the past 15 years, Peter is currently undertaking the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (IHGS) Higher Certificate in Genealogy, and has a particular interest in researching Poor Law, Workhouses and Asylums.
Based in New Zealand Tina is currently studying towards the PG Certificate in Genealogical, Palaeographic & Heraldic Studies via Strathclyde University. She is an amateur genealogist with interests in family research, DNA analysis and researching the lives of British immigrants arriving in New Zealand during the period 1840-1880.
Jade has just started her MSc in Genealogy through Strathclyde University. Finding her own father at 21, she has worked on adoption cases here in the UK to as far as New Zealand using records and DNA. Jade recently wrote for Legacy Tree in September 2020 and is a lead researcher for Father Nicholas Schofield’s book ‘Victorian Crusaders: British and Irish Volunteers in the Papal Army, 1860-70.’ She also likes to research WW1 medals and silks and reunite them to the family.
John is currently studying for the MSc in Genealogical, Palaeographic & Heraldic Studies at the University of Strathclyde. His research interests include the lives of health practitioners, and of speakers of Esperanto. Australian born, but now residing in Powys, Wales.
Jananne completed the Higher Certificate in Genealogy with the IHGS in under two years while undertaking bespoke research. She has a particular interest in researching London ancestors. She combines skills as a researcher with experience in commercial strategy and theatre to create personalised journeys into the past through family history. She especially loves busting family myths while discovering new ones that are even more incredible.
Michelle is from New Zealand and based in Gloucestershire. Currently she is studying for the Higher Certificate in Genealogy with the IHGS. Her interests are emigration, local/social history and palaeography.
Rachel is currently studying for the IHGS Higher Certificate in Genealogy. Based in Liverpool, she has 30 years’ experience in Genealogy and Local History Research. Rachel has extensive knowledge of Merseyside and Lancashire archives, and is well versed in accessing records from across the UK and Ireland.
Kathie is based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and is currently studying the PG Diploma in Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies at the University of Strathclyde. She loves the puzzle of palaeography and her many years of researching her diverse family background has resulted in widespread interests, which include Canada, US, England, Scotland, Ireland, Norway and Sweden.
Sonja is a qualified solicitor (BSc & LLB) based in Surrey and is currently studying part-time through IHGS on their correspondence course. She is an alumni of Strathclyde University’s Genetic Genealogy Course and has a special interest in unknown parentage and adoptee cases, having successfully solved several NPE’s. Sonja is actively documenting and connecting her South African roots from 17th-20th centuries back to Kent, Cambridgeshire, Dumfries in Scotland and Norway.
Alison is based in Birmingham and is currently studying for the Higher Certificate in Genealogy with the IHGS. She has been researching family history for over 30 years and is now looking to turn her passion into a full time business, bringing other people’s past to life so they can deliver a legacy of their ancestry that will be cherished and handed down from generation to generation. Research areas she specialises in are the Midlands, South Wales and Worcestershire.
Hannah graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, United States in 2021 and is currently in the final master’s year of the Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies programme at the University of Strathclyde. Her genealogical research interests include various regions of the United States, Poland, palaeography, and genetic genealogy. Hannah is based in Salem, Oregon, United States.
Susan is a chartered librarian, studying for the Postgraduate Certificate on the MSc programme in Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies (University of Strathclyde). Her main interests are the West of Scotland and the Scottish Highlands, palaeography, and provenance research into donors and collections – on occasions, in the cause of repatriation.
Helen is currently a student on the PG Certificate in Genealogical, Palaeographic & Heraldic Studies (modular course). Her interest areas are British Isles genealogy (Scottish and English primarily), and the role of women in the textile history of the British Isles & Empire, medieval to present.
Stephanie has been an amateur genealogist since 2006 and is currently studying on the IHGS Correspondence Course in Genealogy, and aims to obtain the Diploma in Genealogy. Due to being based in Norfolk, her research interests include East Anglia. She is also interested in the history of disability and how disabled people were treated.
Kathy has the Advanced Diploma in Local History from Oxford University and is about to start the MSc in Genealogical, Palaeographic & Heraldic Studies at the University of Strathclyde. Alongside being a genealogist, she has worked extensively with adoption agencies helping to reunite birth and adoptive families, and she has a special interest in the history of asylums and the treatment of mental illness.
Tracey is currently studying for the PG Diploma in Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies with the University of Strathclyde. She has been researching for friends and family for over 20 years with experience of Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and East Midlands genealogy in particular. Research interests include social and local history, poor law and asylums.