We often receive requests for historic information about the families who have lived, been baptised, married or buried in Oldmeldrum or at Bourtie.   We do not hold historical information here in the parish but pass all such documents to the Church of Scotland offices who transfer them to the National Archives for Scotland.

To help you search for family connections and your Scottish Ancestry here is a collection of on-line resources which we hope will be of assistance:

We are very lucky in Scotland to have a fairly good system of records for those wishing to trace their family histories. Compulsory registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages was introduced in 1855 and these records are accessible and held by the General Register Office for Scotland. The GRO(S) also hold parish registers before that (the earliest is Errol in Perthshire which goes back to 1553, but most are rather later than this).

Scotland's People is one of the largest online sources of original genealogical information -  with almost 50 million records to access,

Local libraries in Scotland may also hold copies, as will the family history societies, a number of which are listed below. The last major source of information is the GENUKI project which collects information and resources on British (including Scottish) and Irish genealogy.