Susie Douglas is an award-winning, qualified Professional Genealogist, Local Historian and Writer. She has an MLitt with distinction in Family and Local History from the University of Dundee.  Her dissertation, 'Food for Thought', challenged long-held beliefs surrounding the 1513 Battle of Flodden.  It achieved the highest mark possible and won the Paul Duller Prize.  

While research areas cover both Scotland and England, her passion and speciality is the fascinating and unique history of the former ‘Marches’ of the Scottish Borders and Northern England and its people and places.  With over 30 years of experience in historical research, Borders Ancestry knows that every case is unique.  For this reason, all research is bespoke and tailored to the requirements of each client.  Susie offers a comprehensive service which covers all aspects of historical research to ensure your family’s story is full of rich narrative, depth and colour:

Family History - From simple record ‘lookups’, to extended family trees and books with full-colour family history narratives

Ancestral Travel – Helping you to plan and prepare to maximise the purpose and enjoyment of your trip.  Borders Ancestry is on hand to help you achieve your research goals and make your ancestral visit an amazing experience. 

Local History – Covering communities in both the urban and rural landscape, historical events, land, property, social, political and economic change

Palaeography – The transcription and interpretation of old handwriting including Latin helping you get to grips with the contents of Wills and other old documents.

DNA - The introduction of DNA has opened up the world of family history to a far greater audience than ever before – it is even inspiring ancestral travel!  Borders Ancestry can help with simple queries, advice regarding testing options, getting to grips with your results, help with cousin matching and more

Mentoring – Delivered on a one-to-one basis online to get you started and keep your research going

Writing – From articles for publication on a wide range of historical topics to turning research into a book to be enjoyed by your family in the generations to come

Whatever your requirements, large or small please do contact us – Susie Douglas at Borders Ancestry is here to help!

As a qualified genealogist, Susie Douglas is also a full member of the Register of Qualified Genealogists (RQG).  https://www.qualifiedgenealogists.org/profiles/douglas-hsidzknhj-genealogist-local-historian-and-writer-coldstream-scottish-borders

Susie is also the founder of  #AncestryHour, a community family history network that ran for over ten years on Twitter. http://www.ancestryhour.co.uk/

Telephone: 01890883883

Email: susie@bordersancestry.co.uk

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