Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society

Graphic advertising our upcoming Southern Ontario Group meeting on Saturday, 20th September 2025 from 1 pm to 3 pm (EST) / 6 pm to 8 pm (BST). Presenter Jamie Lees will share the remarkable true story behind Left at The Wellgate: The Untold Story of Mary Petrie Smith. It begins in Dundee, Scotland in 1911, when a young woman left two small boys in a pram at the Wellgate before disappearing from their lives. Through historical records, photographs, and personal archives, Jamie traces the path of this woman across continents and generations, uncovering the hidden threads that connect past to present. This talk follows the acclaimed Left at The Wellgate exhibition in Dundee and precedes an upcoming book and theatrical production based on the story.

Presenter Jamie Lees will share the remarkable true story behind Left at The Wellgate: The Untold Story of Mary Petrie Smith at our Southern Ontario Group meeting on 20th September 2025.

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Image of the cover of Journal 175 featuring a sailing ship and the title "Drama on the High Seas"

Our August edition of our quarterly Journal is now available for members to read online through our website. It’s packed with fascinating articles, research tips, and Society news – perfect for an afternoon’s reading with a cup of tea! ☕📖
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Due to a combination of illness and summer holidays, we currently do not have enough volunteers to keep our Research Centre open on Friday afternoons.

As a result, the Centre will be closed on Fridays from 1pm onwards until further notice.

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Case studies will include the presenter's paternal ancestry from Aberdeenshire and his maternal ancestry from Ireland. GEPro should be installed on the participant’s personal device in advance if interested in trying its features during the workshop.

Participants will learn how to add informative placemarks and lines on a map, use polygons to highlight regions of interest, run automated tours of mapped points, include image overlays to give context to family history, and more!

This online workshop will demonstrate how family history details can be mapped using Google Earth Pro for desktop (GEPro). GEPro is a free downloadable application with many useful features for genealogy and digital mapping.

Graphic advertising ANESFHS' Southern Ontario Group Meeting about "Ancestral Mapping Using Google Earth Pro". This is an online meeting held on Saturday, 26th April 2025 from 1 pm to 3 pm (EDT). For those in the UK, it's 6 pm to 8 pm (BST). This is an open meeting - all are welcome. Pre-registration is required. Visit our website at www.anesfhs.org.uk and click on the Events tab to register.

Join us on Saturday, 26th April 2025 for our next Southern Ontario Group Meeting where we'll be discussing "Ancestral Mapping Using Google Earth Pro". Full details here: www.anesfhs.org.uk/meetings-eve... #Genealogy #Aberdeen #Scotland #Ontario #Canada

The Institute explores how traditions and cultures are created, adapted, reinterpreted and renewed, to meet new and challenging circumstances, whether here or abroad. Family History is certainly part of these processes and we are delighted to welcome Nicolas to speak to the Society

Nicolas is Programme Co-ordinator for the MLitt in Ethnology and Folklore and the Institute’s Archivist. He also leads many of the Institute's public engagement initiatives.

Established in 1995, it uses ethnographic methodologies to explore our exceptional heritage of traditional music, ballad and song, story, lore and language, and the dynamic creativity of those who live and work in the North-East today.

The Elphinstone Institute is a centre for the study of Ethnology, Folklore, and Ethnomusicology at the University of Aberdeen.

Advertisement for the upcoming ANESFHS Aberdeen meeting. This month's talk by Nicolas Le Bigre is entitled "An Introduction to the Work of the Elphinstone Institute". The meeting will be on Saturday, 12th April 2025 from 2 pm to 4 pm at the Fountainhall Church Centre, 1 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen AB15 4AB and online via Zoom. To register, visit our website: www.anesfhs.org.uk and click on the Events link.

Join us for our next meeting on Saturday, 12th April 2025 from 2 pm to 4 pm (BST) at the Fountainhall Church Centre, #Aberdeen and live via Zoom. For more details: www.anesfhs.org.uk/meetings-eve... #Genealogy #Scotland

Here's a blast from our past! A video that was taken 40 years ago of our old premises at 152 King Street in #Aberdeen. Enjoy this look back at the early days of the Society! #Genealogy #Scotland

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Family historians will be able to learn more about the health-related experiences of their ancestors who left the North-East for the Lothians. The site also contains useful resources about, for example, the history of nursing.

There is also a photographic collection (c. 40,000 items) as well as older printed books, memorabilia, medical instruments, artworks, silverware and other historically significant objects.

The Archive team preserves these records and promotes them to increase understanding of the history of health and for the benefit of all. The Archive includes a variety of NHS clinical and non-clinical records date from 1770 and 1594 respectively.

Louise Williams is Archivist at Lothian Health Services Archive, a resource which holds the historically important local records of NHS hospitals and other health-related material.

Graphic advertising our next Edinburgh Group Meeting on Saturday, 22nd March 2025 from 2 pm to 4 pm (GMT) at the Royal Scots Club, 29 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh EH3 6QE. This meeting will also be broadcast live over Zoom. Louise Williams will give a talk entitled "Family History Resources in Lothian Health Board."

Join us on Saturday, 22nd March 2025 from 2 pm to 4 pm (GMT) for our #Edinburgh Group Meeting. which will feature an insightful look at health records and their value in family history research. More information here: www.anesfhs.org.uk/meetings-eve... #Aberdeen #Scotland #Genealogy

This is a great chance for those of us who may want to trace collateral lines, great-aunts and uncles, who migrated to Canada but don’t know what resources may be available.

Our Canadian colleagues, Rod Coates, David Joiner and Susan Brouwer, are regular participants in our online meetings and they will join us in the Fountainhall Centre through the magic of Zoom.

Join us for this very special meeting where our Southern Ontario Group will lead us through some family histories and resources and get you started on your own voyage of discovery.

“Tracing the Maple Trail” will explore key Canadian genealogy resources, from passenger lists and census records to church records and military archives.

A graphic advertising the next Aberdeen meeting of the Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society on Saturday, 15th March 2025 from 2 pm to 4 pm (GMT) at the Fountainhall Church Centre, 1 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen AB15 4AB. The meeting will also be available online via Zoom. For more details: https://anesfhs.org.uk/meetings-events/events/event/454-abd2025mar

Does your family tree have members who set sail for Canada, leaving behind their roots in Scotland? If you’re looking to uncover their journey and find records across the Atlantic, our upcoming meeting is for you! Details here: anesfhs.org.uk/meetings-eve... #Aberdeen #Scotland #Canada #Genealogy

It's going to be a fun discussion on "My favourite Scottish research resource." We all know about ScotlandsPeople, but what about the other hidden gems of Scottish research? Come along and share your search tips and discoveries!

Graphic advertising our next Australia/New Zealand Group meeting on Saturday, 1st March 2025.

Our next Australia/New Zealand Group meeting is this Saturday, 1st March 2025, from 4 pm to 6 pm (AEDT). For those early risers in the UK, that will be 5 am to 7 am (GMT).
More details here: www.anesfhs.org.uk/meetings-eve... #Aberdeen #Genealogy #Scotland

Beyond birth, marriage, and death notices, newspapers reveal the everyday lives of our ancestors— court cases, obituaries, and even the occasional scandal. We’ll explore how newspapers can add rich detail to your research and uncover stories you never knew existed.

Graphic advertising our next Moray/Banff Group Meeting on Saturday, 1st March 2025 from 2 pm to 4 pm (GMT). More details: https://www.anesfhs.org.uk/meetings-events/events/event/474-mbf2025mar

Our next Moray/Banff Group online meeting is this Saturday, 1st March 2025 from 2 pm to 4 pm (GMT). In the first part of this series of "Finding out more", we'll be focusing on newspapers. More info here: www.anesfhs.org.uk/meetings-eve...

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As always, our meetings are free to attend, but we would be most grateful if you would kindly signify your likely attendance by e-mailing glasgow@anesfhs.org.uk so that we can organise the space (and tea and biscuits). Thank you in anticipation.

From the ground floor, turn right and go past the former Oasis Café to the back stairs. There is no lift access to this part of the building. Toilet facilities are nearby.