Aberdeen Sheriff Court Paternity Cases Now Online

[ScottishAncestry]

Just a quick note to let you all know that our volunteer has finished indexing what remains of the extracted paternity decrees in the Aberdeen Sheriff Court and they are available to search on www.scottishindexes.com. We have now completed indexing the extracted decrees held by the National Records of Scotland (NRS) for Aberdeen Sheriff Court. The years covered are 1834-1837, 1875 (2 cases only) and 1903-1916. Sadly the volumes in the intervening years are not held by the NRS and do not seem to have survived.

If you are looking for a paternity case (or other Sheriff Court case) before 1860 there are of course the processes. These are the paperwork of the court and are very interesting but are laborious to search. To learn more about Sheriff Court records and how to use them to find out more about the lives of your ancestors take a look at our Learning Zone: http://www.scottishindexes.com/learningcourt.aspx

As with all our records the index is free to access and we give the NRS reference, you can take that reference and look at the full entry for free in the NRS.

I know our volunteer is delighted when the index helps someone trace their family tree so I hope these records help someone too!

Emma

[ScottishAncestry]

We were looking for a paternity case in the boxes of Aberdeen processes last Monday and noted all paternity cases we found as we went along. We have added 134 more 'paternity' cases to our online index. We now have entries for Aberdeen for the following years:

1752, 1761-62, 1802, 1811, 1817, 1820-1822, 1830, 1834-1837, 1857, 1875, 1900-1917

Please be aware though that because the cases are muddled up in the boxes there may be more cases (before 1860) which we have simply not found yet. In time we hope to add more cases to the index.

Emma