Sue Adams, QG
ProGen Member Overview
Sue Adams undertakes bespoke family history and genealogy research, provides one-to-one research advice, and gives talks on family history topics.
Sue specialises in English manorial records, land records and maps. A typical client has encountered a reference to copyhold property and wants to understand how that can help trace their genealogy and family history. Records of copyhold property tenure are rich genealogical sources that prevailed in England up to the 1920s.
Education
Sue completed an undergraduate Open University course in Family and Community History in 2001 and went on to be awarded an MSc in Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies from the University of Strathclyde in 2012.
Sue is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Lincoln, working on the Manor of Moulton Harrington, Lincolnshire.
Experience
Sue started researching her own family from Suffolk, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire in 1997. She has been working as a professional genealogist since 2012.
Publications & BLOGs
Sue writes a blog, Family Folklore Blog https://familyfolklore.wordpress.com/