ABERDEENSHIRE RESEARCH

ABERDEENSHIRE - SCOTLAND (ABD)

Ancestry Search	BRIEF DETAILS OF ABERDEENSHIRE Aberdeenshire is a county in North East Scotland. The major town, Aberdeen is about 140 miles from Glasgow and 130 miles from Edinburgh.
Locate First Online Electoral Roll Search	MAJOR TOWNS AND CITIES Aberdeen Click the link for a 1:500000 scale map of the area, which you can resize to scales varying from 1:10000 to 1:4000000	Frith Photo Archive Search for Old Photos
UK Record Collections	BORDERING COUNTIES Angus Banffshire Inverness-shire Kincardineshire Perthshire	Missing Links Birth Adoption Register
RootsMap Surname Distribution Maps	Amazon.co.uk has a selection of books on the history of Aberdeenshire Click here for a list.	Old-Maps.co.uk Digital Historical Maps
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ARCHIVES & LIBRARIES
We have listed details of some of the major archives and libraries in Aberdeenshire. If you are visiting one of them and need a map simply click the link on the postcode.
Aberdeen City Archives Town House Broad Street Aberdeen AB10 1AQ 01224 522513 FAX 01224 522491 E-Mail	Aberdeen Local Studies Library Central Library Rosemount Viaduct Aberdeen AB25 1GW 01224 652511 FAX 01224 624118 E-Mail	The UK Census has been taken every 10 years since 1841 and is made public after 100 years. Many societies publish booklets giving details of the census in towns and villages in their area. Some can be purchased from Amazon, for details click here , alternatively you can contact the society direct.
For more information on libraries and their holdings visit the FAMILIA site.

LOCAL SOCIETIES	SURNAME LISTS
Local Family History Societies provide a wide variety of publications and other material, for more details visit the sites below Aberdeen & NE Scotland FHS	Surname lists give details of individuals research interests. Have a look you may find a long lost cousin! Aberdeenshire Surnames List Aberdeenshire Families
MAILING LISTS	LOOK UP EXCHANGES
Rootsweb host mailing lists covering every county in the UK. Any member of the list can post a message, which will be received by all the other members in either list mode (every individual message separately) or digest mode (a number of messages in one e-mail). Aberdeenshire is covered by the following list(s). To join simply click the mode of your choice and send the message totally unaltered, disabling your signature. ABERDEEN List mode Digest mode If you want to know more about the lists scope or have difficulty subscribing Rootsweb will provide more details	Look up exchanges list reference works which volunteers are willing to search for specific entries. All Scotland Lookup Exchange. Please remember that people who provide this service are not professional researchers, and cannot usually help with general enquiries. Make your requests as specific as possible.