Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives will be vacating its building at Dunbar Street in early 2025.
We are now closed until Spring 2025 to facilitate this move.
View online
A limited number of our records are available online as digitised images or transcriptions. Go to our Online Records & Other Sources of Information page to find out more.
Data Protection and Subject Access Requests
Access to records containing information about living individuals is restricted under the Data Protection Act. These include school records, poor relief records, and public assistance records.
- For guidance on accessing City records covered by Data Protection, please contact Aberdeen City Council's Access to Information team via: AccesstoInformation@aberdeencity.gov.uk.
- For guidance on accessing Aberdeenshire records covered by Data Protection, please contact Aberdeenshire Council's FOI team via foi@aberdeenshire.gov.uk. More information about submitting a Subject Access Request to Aberdeenshire can be found on the Aberdeenshire Council website.
Research and copying services
Our research and copying services have also been temporarily suspended during our move out of Old Aberdeen House and we are currently unable to respond to telephone or email enquriries.