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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Brian is based in Boise, Idaho, and is following through on a decade-long interest in genealogy by pursuing PG Certification through the University of Strathclyde. His particular research interests include Germans from Russia, German immigration to America, and the settlement of the American Midwest.