Central Library, Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, AB25 1GW
(01224) 652543
localstudies@aberdeencity.gov.uk
Local Studies Website
Monday 9.00am – 8.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am – 5.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am – 8.00pm
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 9.00am – 5.00pm
The Local Studies Department aims to provide both current and historical information on all aspects of Aberdeen. The sources also cover a larger area including the historic counties of Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Kincardineshire. Family history sources include:
- Old Parish Registers of baptisms, marriages and deaths up to 1854
- Census Returns from 1841 to 1901
- Maps of Aberdeen from 1661
- Electoral registers from 1909
- Valuation rolls from 1859
- Local newspapers dating from 1747 to the present day
- Free access to the Ancestry Library Edition website
- Access to Find My Past
- Free access to the British Library’s 19th Century Newspaper Database (which includes full electronic versions of the Aberdeen Journal from January 1800 to June 1900)
- Aberdeen Post Office Directories from 1824 to 1982
- International Genealogical Index of births, christenings and marriages for Scotland
- Monumental Inscriptions and Burial Records for various churchyards
- Transcripts of a number of Episcopal Church records
- Parish and local histories, biographies and family histories
- Historical photographs including buildings, streets and harbour scenes
- Discount vouchers for the Scotlandspeople website