Links

 

Birse Community Trust   http://www.birsecommunitytrust.org.uk/   

Keeps you updated on happenings in Birse.

 

Statistical Accounts   http://edina.ac.uk/statacc/

The “Old” Statistical Account (1791-1799) and the “New” Statistical Account (1834-1845) are available online.  Read descriptions of Birse and other parishes in Scotland for the above timeframes.

 

Scotland's People   http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/index.aspx

Looking for your folk?  Scotland’s People now has online all census from 1841 to 1901.  Also available are the Statutory Registers for Births, Deaths and Marriages and the Old Parochial Registers. 

You can also search for Wills and Inventories from 1513 – 1901 at no charge. 

 

Aberdeen and North East Scotland FHS  http://www.anesfhs.org.uk/

A valuable resource when researching in the NE of Scotland. 

 

Monumental Inscriptions for Aberdeenshire    http://www.abdnet.co.uk/mi-index/

A searchable database of all published and unpublished monumental inscriptions held by the ANESFHS.

 

GENUKI  (Parish of Birse)  http://www.urie.demon.co.uk/genuki/ABD/Birse/index.html

Information on Birse and what is available for Birse.  Also information on other parishes. 

 

Family Search    http://www.familysearch.org/

A free site where you can search for your ancestors. 

 

Looking for Census?  FreeCEN    http://freecen.rootsweb.com/

Hundreds of volunteers are gradually adding census information for all of the UK.  1841 census for Aberdeenshire is complete and 1851 is well on the way to being complete. 

 

NE Scotland Genealogy:   http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/nescotland/index.html

Colin Milne is to be congratulated on the fantastic work he is doing compiling bits and bobs – not to mention lots of photographs of Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire kirkyards.  His pages are well worth a visit. 

 

Life in the North East?  Visit the North East Folklore Archive  http://www.nefa.net/index2.htm

 

Looking for a particular family name:

Kinminity Through the Ages, written by Hugh Cochran BA (Oxon), LLB (Edin), BA (Abdn), FSA Scot.

 

Views of Birse:  Type "Birse" into the search facility on this website http://www.geograph.org.uk/  and come up with some magic photographs of the Parish and the surrounding area!

 

Various projects are under way in Scotland to survey  long forgotten fermtouns:

 

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