Else Churchill is the Genealogist at the Society of Genealogists in London with nearly 40 years of experience as genealogist and educator.
Else lectures regularly for the Society of Genealogists, The National Archives and for local groups around the United Kingdom. She has also lectured extensively in Canada, New Zealand and the USA and will shortly be speaking in workshops in Australia.
Along with teaching the Pharos course on sources for the long 18th century, her main research interests lie in the seventeenth century and sources for people who lived through the English Civil Wars.
Her own family history research is concentrated in SW Herefordshire in the 1670s but having exhausted most of the surviving local sources for this period and with little chance of taking her direct ancestry back further, she has recently been concentrating more on 20th century scandals in her immediate family.
Else campaigns and actively works on behalf of the genealogical community. She was on the Council of British Record Society, and on the Council of Friends of The National Archives and TNA Advisory User Panel and Convenor of the British Genealogical Record Users Committee. She served a nine year stint as a member of the Lord Chancellors Advisory Council on National Records and has presented evidence to Parliament on genealogical matters.
Courses tutored by Else:
- Website: www.sog.org.uk