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Aberdeenshire / Re: aberdeen cemeteries online
« on: Wednesday 02 February 11 15:29 GMT (UK)  »
We're pleased to announce Deceased Online (www.deceasedonline.com) have just made available the records for the Spital and St Peter's Cemetery in Aberdeen.  Around 70% of the records for that cemetery are now searchable, which is just over 105,000 entries!  There's still some work to be done on the remainder (and frankly, if you've ever seen the originals you'd understand why - duplication and confusion abound!) but hopefully these will be available soon.

Any burial records which can't be searched online can still be looked at in our Town House searchroom - just contact us and we can either do research for you (though we do charge for this - at the moment it's £7.50 per 15 minutes of staff time, up to £30.00 an hour) or you can come in and look at the records yourself for free.

Take a look at our website at www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/archives and our online catalogue at www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/archivecatalogue and see what we've got!

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Aberdeenshire / Double Post!
« on: Wednesday 27 October 10 10:42 BST (UK)  »
Double post somehow!  Sorry... :-[

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Scotland Resources / Re: Church Court Records to be Available Online
« on: Wednesday 27 October 10 10:35 BST (UK)  »
There's been a slight change in programme for this event, in that the display will be in Union Square on Thursday 28 October only, and not now the Friday.  We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Scotland Resources / Church Court Records to be Available Online
« on: Wednesday 06 October 10 15:56 BST (UK)  »
Online access to about 10,000 volumes representing some of Scotland’s most important church records will be available at Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives at the end of October.

In May 2003, the National Archives of Scotland, under an agreement with the Church of Scotland and Family Search, began the digital capture of the records of kirk sessions, presbyteries, synods and the General Assembly (from the sixteenth century to 1901) deposited in the NAS and other Scottish archives.

The digitisation project encompasses a wide range of records created by the four levels of the church courts, including minute books, act books, proclamation registers, communion rolls, seat rent books, poor relief accounts etc. It also includes the records of secession churches which later rejoined the Church of Scotland. These records constitute a major body of historical information and are used by a wide variety of professional and amateur historians.     

Archive staff will be demonstrating this online resource at Union Square in Aberdeen on Thursday 28th so make sure you come along!

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The Common Room / Re: National Archives under threat?
« on: Tuesday 05 October 10 09:52 BST (UK)  »
Deleted - posted in the wrong place!

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Kincardineshire / Re: Findlays of Fetteresso
« on: Monday 04 October 10 11:56 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: dod m on Thursday 02 September 10 14:38 BST (UK)
I believe you already had access to the records when you copied them from the originals held by a local farmer who found them when he was converting the school into a grain drier.

I copied these records about 20 years ago, and have no idea if the originals still survive.

If you have the complete set of admission records, I'm very pleased to hear that, and I look forward to accessing them on line.Thank You for letting me know.

When Kincardineshire was amalgamated with Aberdeenshire there was very strong rumors that school registry records among others were being destroyed!!.

Thank You for your help.
Dod
It seems we do indeed hold a photocopy of the admission registers - our list shows them as being for 1867 to 1899 and 1897 to 1921.  The ones we hold from 1921 to 1968 are the original registers kept by the school.  It would be interesting to find out if the other ones do survive somewhere - though given that they were found behind a wall, they might have been in some state and photocopying was the only option!

How odd that there was a rumour that Kincardine records were to be destroyed!  I know that there was a lot of people who didn't want (and still don't) to be part of Aberdeenshire, and that Kincardine should retain its status, so it might have been to do with that.  The Kincardine records were already held by the Grampian Regional Archives, before they became part of what is now Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives.

The link given about the records online is a link to our catalogue.  It does not have images of the records, nor can you search on information held within the records.  It's a list of items we hold (like a library catalogue) so you can see what school records we have and then get in touch about how to access them!

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Kincardineshire / Re: Findlays of Fetteresso
« on: Thursday 02 September 10 13:27 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: dod m on Wednesday 01 September 10 21:32 BST (UK)
Hello, A couple of Cookney School Registers, one dated 1874-1889 the other 1897-1921 were recovered. these records had fallen down behind wall panels. As far as I'm aware the rest of the records were destroyed by the Council.
They are in Excel XLR format, so can be sorted by name date etc.
If anyone requires a copy?.Let me know.
Regards Dod
Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives hold records relating to Cookney School, including admission registers from 1921 and log books from 1874, so they certainly weren't destroyed by the Council!  The Archives hold school records for around 500 schools across the North East of Scotland and you can see what school records we have on their online catalogue at www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/archivecatalogue

Do you know if the original registers you have which are in an Excel format survive?  It explains why the Archives only have ones from 1921 if these were found at a later date, behind a wall panel.  It's amazing the places things like this turn up in!  We recently received an admission register which was believed to have been destroyed in a fire, but had actually been taken home by one of the teachers.  The register was then found in the loft many years later!

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Aberdeenshire / Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives Online Catalogue
« on: Monday 31 May 10 12:53 BST (UK)  »
Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives are pleased to announce the launch of their online catalogue.  It is now available at www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/archivecatalogue

Containing over 23,000 entries (and counting!) the catalogue contains descriptions of items held, along with their reference numbers.  It does not contain images of the records, nor have the records been indexed on the catalogue.

Series which are available to search to see what is available for the area you are interested in include school records, poor relief records, burgh records, and many more.  The catalogue is regularly updated so keep checking back. 

Contact details for Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives are available on the website.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: aberdeen cemeteries online
« on: Monday 31 May 10 12:45 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

Yes, Deceased Online have made available the following records held by Aberdeen City Archives:

Nellfield Cemetery, Aberdeen - Added 27 May 2010
7,813 burials, dated 22 December 1856 to 18 August 1892, are available as Burial register scans in various formats with up to 23 entries per scanned page.

The following are in the process:

Old Machar Churchyard, Aberdeen - *** UPLOADING ***
9,181 burials, dated 5 October 1863 to 30 March 1907, are available as Burial register scans with up to 38 entries per scanned page.

St Clement's Churchyard, Aberdeen - *** UPLOADING ***
6,731 burials, dated 1 January 1855 to 1 February 1928, are available as Burial register scans with up to 34 entries per scanned page.

Grove Cemetery, Aberdeen - Added 28 May 2010
149 burials, dated 9 March 1905 to 21 November 1983, are available as Lair register scans.

And there will be more to come, including the records of St Peter's Cemetery, St Nicholas, and John Knox. 

You can search for free, then it's a small fee to view the actual record.  Enjoy!

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