Birth, Death and Marriage Records
Birth, Death & Marriage Records for Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire
The Birth, Death and Marriage records for Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire are available in the Search Room , grouped together by parish/registration district and arranged in alphabetical order.
Registers date from 1855, to circa 1899 for births and to 1939 for marriages and deaths. After those dates, births, deaths and marriages for Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire can be viewed on microfiche, up to and including 1967. Also available are the records of birth, death and marriages for the whole of Scotland on computer, as well as census records from 1841.
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