Family History In Angus - A Great Place To Start!
Angus Archives is a great place to start and build on your family history. It is a treasure chest of rich and varied sources to help the family historian. The Angus Archives team have a wealth of experience to help you make the most of our unique documents, photographs and indexes. There is no charge to use Angus Archives when you visit in person. It is free. Standard charges apply for photocopies, photographic images and the research service.
For those unable to visit in person, Angus Archives offers an established research service.
To find out where we are, what to bring and what we have visit our home page.
Full details of our holdings can be found on our resources pages.
In brief, Angus Archives holds:
Sources to get you started:
- the IGI and access to its free online index on www.familysearch.org
- Old Parish Registers for Angus on microfilm
- Census 1841-1901 on microfilm
- collection of gravestone photographs and monumental inscriptions
- Angus Burial records are available online at www.deceasedonline.com
If you need advice on how to get started and what information to gather first, Scotland’s People has an excellent starter page.
During your early researches you will inevitably need to visit the Registrar in one of their 3 Angus offices in Arbroath, Forfar and Montrose, or use www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk. Both are fee paying services.
Arbroath Registrar
69 High Street, DD11 1AN
Telephone: 01241 873752
Email: regarbroath@angus.gov.uk
Forfar Registrar
9 West High Street, DD8 1BD
Telephone: 01307 464973
Email: regforfar@angus.gov.uk
Montrose Registrar
51 John Street, DD10 8LZ
Telephone: 01674 672351
Email: regmontrose@angus.gov.uk
Angus Archives sources to take your family story further:
- private records
- Trades records for weavers, shoemakers, tailors etc
- Burgh records
- Angus County Council
- School log books
- Poor relief registers
- an Angus wide collection of photographs
- Indexes to Buildings and People in the photographic collections
- unique indexes to varied sources, both archival and printed
- Valuation rolls for the county of Forfarshire/Angus
- Brechin Cathedral and Arbroath Abbey burials
- sasine indexes
- Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae - Church of Scotland minister biographies
- a large collection of local history books
- Kirk Session records for Montrose, Glamis and Kirriemuir and detailed extracts for Aberlemno, Arbirlot, Carmyllie, and Forfar
- Large collection of Angus family histories
Full details of our holdings can be found on our resources pages.
Angus libraries also hold resources that are of use to the family historian including local newspapers held on microfilm. Forfar and Arbroath newspapers are indexed up to 1985.
www.tayroots.com is full of useful information and sources covering the wider Angus and Dundee area, formerly Forfarshire.
For further details or questions concerning your research contact us at angus.archives@angus.gov.uk
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