King Street Family History Centre - Open Again

Our Family History Research Centre has now reopened but is operating under strict Covid-19 rules, For full details, see our Safety Policy

About Us

Welcome to the website of the Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society.

Genealogy's growing popularity is, in a large part, due to the efforts of Scotland's network of family history societies. Since its foundation in 1978, the Aberdeen & N.E. Scotland Family History Society has had more than 21,000 members with a core membership that has exceeded 5,000 per annum.

The Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society exists to assist and promote the study of genealogy and family history based on the North-East corner of Scotland. This area covers the old counties of Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire and Morayshire.  We also hold records for the whole of Scotland and a considerable amount of data on the rest of the U.K. as well as many places around the world where Scots can be found, which I suppose includes the whole world.

Research Centre

kingstreetreopeningOur Research Centre, opened in 1987 and the first of its kind in the country, is available for members use. The centre is also open to members of other Scottish Family History Societies. The Research Centre is the hub of the Society's activities, staffed by volunteer members who are delighted to assist you trace your family tree and tell you how to go about it.

DataBank

The DataBank is a collection of Indexes and Transcriptions of original source material produced by ANESFHS members, and generally not available elsewhere. Some of the datasets may previously have been available internally at the ANESFHS Centre, others may have been available online on other sites.

Membership

ANESFHS Fees

Membership of the Society is by annual subscription and you will receive four issues of our Journal during the year as well as full access to our website and our research centre in Aberdeen.

Annual subscriptions start from just £18.