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Catalogue Information

Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives hold a vast amount of records relating to both Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.  For further information please visit our Online Catalogue, however, since it is a work in progress we do have a number of guides and lists available for download.  You may need to  download the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these documents.  The items listed below are held at either our Town House office or our Old Aberdeen House branch, where they can be viewed.  Please contact us to make an appointment or to find out further information on how to access the archives.  The guides and lists available are:

1. Burial Records 14.  Alexander MacDonald of Keppleston
2.  Poor Relief Records 15.  Menzies of Pitfodels
3.  School Records 16.  Deposited Records
4.  Valuation Rolls 17.  General Band of Relief, 1639

5.  Church of Scotland Records

 18.  New Street Trustees
6.  Congregational Church Records 19.  Shipping Records
7.  Methodist Church Records 20.  Assessed Taxes
8.  Hall Russell Records 21.  Aberdeen County Militia Records
9.  NORCO Records 22.  Vehicle Registrations
10.  AAPCA Records 23.  Loyal Volunteers of Macduff
11.  Photographs Collection 24.  Indexes to the Aberdeen Burgh Registers of Apprentices

12.  Town's Clerks' Scrapbooks

 25.  Prisoner of War Bureau Indexes
13.  Garden of Troup Records 26.  Electoral Rolls

Descriptions of the George Bennett Mitchell and Duncan & Munro Architectural Collections can be accessed through the website of RCAHMS, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.

Indexes to the Aberdeen Stent Roll from 1669, burials in St Nicholas Kirkyard from 1666 to 1793 and St Nicholas Kirk Session Accounts from 1602 to 1705 can be found through the ANESFHS Databank.  This resource was compiled by a member of the Aberdeen & North East Scotland Family History Society from some records held in our Town House office.

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