** RESOURCES for Moray **

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Some links to Morayshire resources to aid research:

To help find things more quickly, resources have been grouped in categories.  The links here have been compiled from topics submitted by RootsChatters. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed   

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Archives 
Moray Local Heritage Site - Libindx
http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/mainmenu.asp
Libindx is the Local Heritage Service's index to sources of information about people, places and subjects relating to Moray. All indexed references to specific individuals, properties and subjects are included under their own unique reference number. Sources indexed include local government archives from the 13th century to 1975, local newspapers, gravestone inscriptions, non-established church records to 1855, architectural plans, books, family histories etc.

Moray Heritage Centre
http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_1537.html
The Local Heritage Centre for Moray offers a fascinating insight to Moray's history and to ancestry searches.
The Centre is based within the old East End School, Institution Road, Elgin, IV30 1RP.

Moray Council website
http://www.moray.gov.uk/
The Moray Council website has useful information for the genealogist and links to the library service.

Oral History of Moray -Tober an Dualchais
http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/

 


Births, Marriages, Deaths, Burials
Some guides here on RootsChat to help you:
Where to start with Scottish Research? - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,24468.0.html
Getting the best out of Scotlands People  - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,562668.0.html
The Scottish Way of Birth and Death...(1855-1939)  www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,578172.0.html

Official website(Paysite, free to search) - http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

Burial Grounds in Northeast Scotland - http://www.abdnet.co.uk/burialgrounds/


For some more resources enter moray genealogy and moray  family history in your favourite search-engines.

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Census Records
Original Census images(1841-1911)(Paysite) - http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
Transcriptions - https://www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
1841 Census
1851 Census
1861 Census
1871 Census


Directories
http://www.nls.uk/family-history/directories/post-office/


Family History Groups
http://www.morayandnairnfhs.co.uk/


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Land Records and Maps
National Library of Scotland maps - http://maps.nls.uk/
Four maps of Elgin and Morayshire from 1662 to 1874
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_Pages/SCO_pages/mor.htm


Miscellaneous
Moray GENUKI pages
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/MOR/

Moray familysearch.wiki pages
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Moray_or_Elginshire,_Scotland
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Category:Moray

Moray Wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Moray

Morayshire family history sharing - http://www.wakefieldfhs.org.uk/morayweb/


Newspapers
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (Paysite, free to search)
Some UK libraries give access to this site - http://gale.cengage.co.uk/


Occupations
http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/


Pictures, Images and Photos
http://www.wakefieldfhs.org.uk/morayweb/moray%20gallery/frames.htm


Schools, Workhouses and other Institutions 
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Morayshire


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Since the regrettable upheavals of 1974-5 there is no longer a 'Moray County Council'. There is a Moray Council, which has a web site, but there isn't a 'Moray County Council web site'.

The Moray Local Heritage site is part of the Moray Council site, and LIBINDX is part of the Moray Local Heritage site.

Re MIs. Among other things, LIBINDX contains every name recorded on every legible gravestone in Moray (present-day boundaries, i.e. not including the parish of Cromdale Inverallan and Advie which is mostly in the historic County of Moray) in 1978/9. It's not perfect, and it's not without errors, but it is still by far the best source for people mentioned on MIs in the county of Moray.

The ANESFHS MI web site http://www.anesfhs.org.uk/databank/miindex/miindex.php indexes MIs in many Moray burial grounds, but not all. It's an ongoing project, but has some way to go before it matches the coverage in LIBINDX.

The Buckie Fishing Heritage Centre has genealogical information about many of the fisher families in Buckie and nearby villages.

Newspapers: a substantial proportion of the references in local newspapers have been indexed in LIBINDX, and it is intended that eventually all the local papers will be indexed.

Most main libraries in Moray have microfilm copies of the available census and OPRs for their immediate areas. Elgin doesn't because these films are available in the Moray Local Heritage Centre a few minutes' walk away.