Rosemary Kopittke

Rosemary Kopittke currently works as an editor of the Unlock the Past series of guidebooks. She is a Life Member of the Queensland Family History Society and has been active is a variety of roles since joining the Management Committee in 1986.

Her mother’s ancestry reaches back to Inverness and Culloden, meaning Rosemary has interests in both Lowland and Highland research. Rosemary’s grandmother was born in Glasgow in 1901 and was able to provide many insights into her family in Glasgow and Perth.

Rosemary presents widely on various aspects of Scottish research and has recently published a second edition of ScotlandsPeople: a place to launch your Scottish research (Unlock the Past).

Rosemary completed a Diploma of Family History, University of Tasmania in 2017, a course of study with the ProGen Study Group 38 in 2019, and has completed two FutureLearn courses with the University of Strathclyde: Genealogy--Researching Your Family Tree and Early Modern Scottish Palaeography: Reading Scotland’s Records in 2016 and 2018.

With the University of Strathclyde, Rosemary completed the Postgraduate Diploma in 2020 and is currently enrolled in the MSc year of the part-time version of the course. This final year involves only research, preparation and writing of a dissertation.

The National Institute of Genealogical Studies offers a number of country based certificates as well as a range of other courses. The certificates consist of 40 courses with most lasting 6-8 weeks though some last up to one year. She has completed country based certificates for Australia (2017), England (2012), Germany (2018), Ireland (2019), and Canada (2020) as well as the Professional Development certificate (2018). She has also done courses for Scotland and America at the basic level.