Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians.
In this welcome updated 2nd addition Chris Paton has managed to guide the reader through the wealth of Irish records that are available online. Chris begins the journey with what he calls ‘The Genealogical Landscape’ which is an overview of all the available resources, details of what can be found there and the website address. […]
Researching Criminal Ancestors
In recent years, the expansion in digitisation of historical records used by genealogists and family historians has led to the wider availability of material relating to crime, policing and punishment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Materials such as criminal registers, institutional prison records and photographs or ‘mugshots’ are often used by archives and museums […]
RQG at RootsTech, London
RQG are proud to announce that the following members will be taking part at RootsTech, London in October. David Annal – ‘My Ancestors Were Liars’. Nick Barratt – ‘Legal sources for genealogy’ AND ‘The smuggler king of Cullercoats’. Jenifer Burden – ‘A sense of place: Land records and maps’. John Cleary – ‘Tools for tree-building […]
Save the Thomas Cook Archive!
RQG are proud to support saving the Thomas Cook Archive – please get involved and express your support via the contact details on the following link from the Association of Business Historians: Save the Thomas Cook Archive!