{"id":578,"date":"2011-09-17T10:19:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T10:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/?page_id=578"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:17:10","slug":"montague-cottage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/researchers\/montague-cottage\/","title":{"rendered":"Montague Cottage Research – Jacqui Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"

An affordable, friendly and thorough service for all levels of family history researchers, I undertake projects from the 17th<\/sup> century onwards.\u00a0\u00a0 My speciality is helping to break down those \u201cbrick walls\u201d in your research.<\/p>\n

www.montaguecottageresearch.com<\/a><\/p>\n

I offer<\/p>\n

– Research<\/b> – archival, record office, museum or library research for local and family history<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Retrieval<\/b>\u00a0 – a document retrieval service – wills and other original documents located, photographed (where possible) and transcribed (if required)<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Photography<\/b> – gravestone, village or church photography<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Starter Family Tree<\/b>\u00a0 – a reasonably priced family tree Starter Package with any subsequent research tailored to the client\u2019s particular interests<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Talks<\/b> – local and family history talks<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Tuition<\/b> – family history tuition<\/p>\n

I specialise in breaking down \u201cbrick walls\u201d in your research<\/p>\n

I can help with a second opinion on your research, checking any doubtful areas<\/p>\n

I can help with writing up your research by researching those extra details to add life to your story<\/p>\n

I can provide talks and\/or tuition to family and local history groups in Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.<\/p>\n

I am based in Leamington Spa in Warwickshire and also on the Nottinghamshire\/Derbyshire border so I have access to Archives and Record Offices over a wide area of the Midlands as well as the main London museums, libraries and archives.\u00a0 My special interests are Military, Naval and Convict ancestors. I am currently a representative on the User Advisory Group of the National Archives at Kew.<\/p>\n

I am a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists,\u00a0 the Society of Genealogists, the British Association for Local History, and the Families in British India Society.\u00a0 I am also a member of various local and family history groups in Leamington and a \u201cFriend\u201d of the Warwickshire Record Office.<\/p>\n

Payment by Cheque or Paypal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based Leamington Spa SoG APG FIBIS member Friendly affordable thorough service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61,57,11,43,47,48,4,52,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4218,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/4218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}