Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society
Granite Roots Appeal
We have now started work on the Research Centre improvements which are being funded by your generous contributions to our Granite Roots Appeal.
Current Progress
As already reported, our Research Centre will close between 19th Oct - 4th Nov for refurbishment. In order to prepare for this work, we have to move into storage our bookshop, fiche and film readers, computers etc.
Packing up the contents of the Research Centre is ongoing and we are afraid that free space is disappearing as the crates get filled. The last items to get packed will be the OPR films for this area of Scotland as they are the most consulted here. The census are being packed as are various other films we have and would advise you to contact us if you are intending looking at anything in this line.
Computers will be available until we close on Thursday 18th October and the Library is mainly operating as usual. Volunteers will still be here to help you until we close.
It is amazing how dusty and grimy things can be!
2nd October 2018
Books for sale are packed but MI's will be available for a while yet. 1891 Census is in the process of being packed and will be finished this week as will some others. Please give us a call to check what is available if you intend visiting the centre. We apologise for any inconvenience caused during the renovation but we will be back soon with improved facilities. Thanks for your patience.
About Us
Welcome to the website of the Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society.
Genealogy's growing popularity is, in a large part, due to the efforts of Scotland's network of family history societies. Since its foundation in 1978, the Aberdeen & N.E. Scotland Family History Society has had more than 21,000 members with a core membership that has exceeded 5,000 per annum.
The Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society exists to assist and promote the study of genealogy and family history based on the North-East corner of Scotland. This area covers the old counties of Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire and Morayshire. We also hold records for the whole of Scotland and a considerable amount of data on the rest of the U.K. as well as many places around the world where Scots can be found, which I suppose includes the whole world.
Research Centre
Our Research Centre, opened in 1987 and the first of its kind in the country, is available for members use. The centre is also open to members of other Scottish Family History Societies. The Research Centre is the hub of the Society's activities, staffed by volunteer members who are delighted to assist you trace your family tree and tell you how to go about it.
DataBank
The DataBank is a collection of Indexes and Transcriptions of original source material produced by ANESFHS members, and generally not available elsewhere. Some of the datasets may previously have been available internally at the ANESFHS Centre, others may have been available online on other sites.
Membership
ANESFHS Fees
Membership of the Society is by annual subscription and you will receive four issues of our award-winning Journal during the year.
Annual subscriptions start from just £18.