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According to Frances Duncan, current Provost of Angus,
Angus is an area of incredible natural beauty
capturing the essence of Scotland.
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Barbara Lavin
Commercial use of any information from these pages is prohibited.
Hi, my name is Barbara Lavin, and I am your county
coordinator/hostess. Please bookmark this site, as things could change regularly.
Hopefully you'll see new and exciting things. I hope you enjoy your visit,
and come again soon.
Useful Angus Information
At one time Angus was called Forfarshire. This was because the county seat is Forfar. However,
the county has been renamed. If you are having problems locating your Angus/Forfar ancestor this may
be why.
The county's ancient name was Angus, but was renamed
Forfarshire to link with Forfar being the county town. More recently,
the preference came to be for the ancient name, and it has so remained since.
The Victorian censuses you will find labelled Forfarshire, as that was
the official name during that period.
Angus is an area of 2,200 square kilometers.
Within this area one finds mountains, rugged cliffs, glens, rivers and seaside.
Visitors find turreted castles and ancient relics.
For people interested in shopping or town life, market and seaside towns
are available.
Angus is bordered by:
Kincardineshire
Aberdeenshire,
Perthshire,
and across a little stretch of water,
Fife
The Angus Archives contains about 800 years of Angus' written heritage.
The Angus Archives houses: royal charters, plans, school logs, letters,
diaries, etc. Also found therein are records from the Angus Burghs (all seven),
the Angus Council and various societies.
Useful Angus address:
If you are interested in what each library has you can either e-mail me or you can call or write
to the libraries themselves and they will send out brochures detailing what is in their library
Arbroath Library
Hil Terrace
Arbroath DD111AH
Opening Hours vary
However they open at 9:30a and close between 5-8 depending on the day.
If you are going feel free to contact me for the times and days.
Brechin Public Library
St. Ninian's Square
Brechin DD97AA
Amanda Price - Librarian
Tel. (01356) 622687
Hours vary so please call ahead
Dundee
Dundee City Archives,
Support Services,
21 City Square,
Dundee DD1 3BY.
Callers use:
One Shore Terrace by appointment.
Iain Flett, Dundee City Archives.
Tel. (01382) 434494
fax. (01382) 434666
Forfar Public Library
50 West High Street
Forfar DD81BA
Ian K. Neil- Librarian
Tel. (01307) 466071
hours vary please call ahead
Kirriemuir Library
Town Hall
28-30 Reform Strret
Kirriemuir DD84BS
John MacRitchie- Librarian
Tel. (01575) 572357
Hours vary so please call ahead
Monifieth Library
Tel. (01382) 533819
hours vary so call ahead
Montrose Library
214 High Street
Montrose DD108HE
Tel. (01674) 671415
Fax. (01674) 671810
send an S.A.E. or I.R.C's as appropraite
to obtain other addresses, please visit Angus Council's Library
and Museum's pages
Looking for your seaman?
For those wishing to trace the career of a British merchant seaman, crew or any other Mariner The following information may be useful.
Official Logs of British Merchants
Seaman's Career
Death of a British merchant seaman at sea.
Tracing a seaman in any one of the census years
Tracing the career of a Customs or Excise Officer
Trawlers
20th Century career of a British Merchant Seaman
Researching the career of a British Master Mariner
Master Mariner
First Steam Ship to cross the Atlantic
The White Star Line
Crew lists and related documents
Contributed by Debbie Beavis
To find out more join The Mariner's Mailing list
Need a picture of a ship - type of?
List of contact addresses for various archives, maritime
organisations or institutions whose collections include the primary
documents required in tracing British Merchant and Royal Navy ships and
seamen.
The Public Record Office,
Ruskin Avenue,
Kew,
Surrey, TW9 4DU
0181-876-3444
The Family Record Centre,
Myddleton Place,
London EC1 1UW
0181-392-5300
The National Maritime Museum
Romney Road,
Greenwich,
London SE10 9NF
0181-858-4422
The Guildhall Library
Aldermanbury,
London EC2P 2EJ
0171-606-3030
The Registry of Shipping and Seamen,
Anchor House,
Cheviot Close,
Parc-Ty-Glas,
Llanishen,
Cardiff CF4 5JA
Lloyds Register of Shipping
100 Leadenhall Street,
London,
EC3A 3BP
Maritime History Archive
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St John's,
Newfoundland,
Canada A1C 5S7
Ministry of Defence
CS(R)2E,
Bourne Avenue,
Hayes,
Middlesex
Looking for that Vital Stat
It was not until 1855 that births, deaths and marriages were
registered and certified in Scotland. Until then the only
recorded details of a marriage would be the entry in the
Parish Register. Whilst occasionally this might contain
substantial information, more usually it was nothing more
than a note of the names of those married together with the
date. If you want a copy of this you should be able to find
it on Scots Orgins
in the Web
Lookup Volunteers:
You are cordially invited to sign up to be an Angus Volunteer. We could
not possibly have enough wonderful people who are willing to help others to
find Angus ancestors. We would love to have your help.
Willing to help? What do you do?
You may have an old history book with an index and be willing to check to
see if someone's ancestor is listed. You might have Tax Lists, Census
Records, Courthouse Records, Death Records. Someone needs your information.
Please e-mail me if you are interested
Barbara Lavin
An alternative to lookups...Indices:
Would you be interested in typing an index from any one of the old Angus history
books? This would be a once and done, permanent help to all of us doing
research
New ANGUS Queries:
We have a new query board - it is now an all encompasing board at ancestry.com.
I hope you enjoy the new looka nd feel. Barb L.
The instructions are below:
1...Place ALL SURNAMES (within your query) in CAPS.
2...Enter your information exactly as you want it to appear.
3...Please, ANGUS QUERIES ONLY..
4...Please TURN OFF THE CAPS. It's hard to see the surnames if your whole
queryis in caps
5...No more then 3 surnames per query please. It makes it to hard to follow
Visit our query Board
If you have any additions or corrections to this list, please let me
know. Send email to
Barb Lavin
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Angus/Forfar Links
 Angus Genealogy Links
Pre-1855 gravestone inscriptions in Angus
At Amazon.com
Angus & Dundee Tourist Board
Glenday mailing list
hosted by:Susan Chambless
Tay Valley Family History Society
Libraries in Scotland to 1850
Look under Forfar
FORFAR and DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
University of Dundee Archives
ANGUS SCOTLAND Surnames List
Maintained by
Jim Robertson
Angus Homepages
Kerr Family History and Genealogy
Goodale
Surname: Goodale, Chisholm, Manson
The Young Family Website
Homeport
Surname: Dalgity, Scott
Thow Clan Family Tree
Surname: Thow, Kippen, Geekie
The Clan Rattray Society
Descendants of James Kay of Monifieth
Surname: Heron, Herron, Kean, Kay, Hunter
Looking 4 Clarks in Forfar Scotland
Stirlings of Angus
The Imrie-Wampach Genealogy Site
Drew's Scottish Genealogy & Ancestor Search
Kimbles of Ohio and Petrie of Angus SCT
maintained by
Karen Hutten
My Robertson Connection
maintained by
Suzanne Robertson
Robinson Family Homepage
maintained by
Cheryl Dorothy Robinson
Forfar/Angus names:
Anderson, Norrie, Tosh
My Angus ancestors
maintained by Doug Butchart
Angus names Butchart, Kinnear, Robertson
Scots Missed
maintained by
Neil Pheasant
The Payne's
maintained by Camille
Pearsons of Angus, Scotland
maintained by
David Pearson
The Home Page of Jim Robertson
maintained by
Jim Robertson
Blairs of Scotland
maintained by
John and Ann Blair
Angus Castles
The Chatelaine's Scottish Castles - Angus
Guthrie Castle
More on the castle
Angus Lookups
Heather
Has 2% extract of the 1851 census
Other Angus Links
Biographical Sketches
Robertson's in the 1891 census
district of Kirrimuir, Angus
PicturesHenderson Photo
contributed by Eva Maxwell
Government
Discovering Angus
Our Royality
Glamis Castle
The Castles of Kincardine and Angus
Angus Tourist Information
Tourist Information Centres
Towns
Arbroath
Montrose
Brechin
Kirriemu
Forfar
Carnoust
Monifieth
Dundee
Mailing list
All mail
Digest Mode
Resources
Genealogy Resources on the Internet
pages maintained by John and Chris Gaunt
Scottish Genealogy - GenUKI
BIGenWeb/Rootsweb Resources
BIGenWeb Page
Search the Archives of RootsWeb mailing lists
Except those withdrawn by the listowner
Surname Helper
Scottish Resources
Genealogy Resources on the Internet - Scotland
Scotland Genealogy Forum
Cyndi's List-- Scotland
Scotland GenWeb
The Scottish Genealogy Society
Gateway to Scotland
the definitive source of information about Scotland on the internet.
Scot Kin
Scottish Genealogy
Scots Orgins
General Register Office for Scotland
Central Scotland Family History Society
Scottish Genealogical Links
genealogical leads and links to a number of Scottish names
The Virtual Museum of Scotland
National Museums of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
The Tartan Pages
are a useful place to search for Scottish sites.
The Clans and Tartans of Scotland
Tartans of Scotland
Artwork
an independent bimonthly Scottish listings newspaper for art and cultural events.
Scotland.org
covers a wide range of places of to find out about Scotland.
House of Scotland
United Kingdom and Ireland
Free Lookups/Britain
The Ulster Foundation
The Tide of Emigration to the United States and to the British Colonies
1845 - 1852 YEARS OF INFAMY
The Irish Times
The National Library of Ireland
List of seamen, captain, crew,firemen, pursers, etc
Public Record Office - National Archives
Royal Naval Reserves
UK and Ireland
The UK Street Map Page
Mapquest
both offer online contemporary maps of the UK and the world respectively. As far as the UK goes, UK Streetmap provides more detail.
Irish Emigrants
Wonderful site!!!! Has some lists of ships - BUT it has the entire list of the passengers where they came from and
where they landed
International Resources
 Feb 14, 2000
Librarians Serving Genealogists:
Genealogy Libraries on the WWW
Catholic Community/Knights of Malta
You can also use this site to search information on the Catholic Church
Historical Map Web Sites
has a great deal of old maps
Internet Genealogy
Surname Guide
Search for your Surname
The LDS puts the 1881 census on line
The Church has announced "a searchable database of the 1881 British
Census, listing more than 30 million names, birth dates, addresses and
occupations that has been compiled on 25 compact discs." The collection,
available for only $33 through the Church, was produced in connection with
the Federation of Family History Societies in the United Kingdom. The
project took "11 years and more than 2.5 million man hours of volunteer
labor" to complete.
The Mariner's Mailing list
Index of Ships World Wide 1851-1900
Across referencer for towns and states
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
ExpediaMaps
You can locate anything pretty much here
Library Sources
It is identified as:
WWW Interface to Manuscript files in RLIN/Eureka:
The Library of Congress has made available this web site of
approximately 400,000 records from archival collections in
libraries, museums, state archives and historical societies
throughout North America.
Accessing Telephone Records
International People finder
International Phone Book
IIGS
International Internet Genealogical Society
Genealogy Resources on the Internet
Has Adoption and other great information
WorldGenWeb Project
Misc. Resources
Feb 14,2000
Genealogical Web Site Watchdog
Closson Press
The place to go for genealogy books
Newspaper Research
Helpful hints on how to do newspaper online research
Time Capsule
Calendarhome.com
Census Microfilm Expeditors
You can now purchase your census
ALL Genealogy Mail lists
CD look ups on the internet
World Family Tree
CD list
CD list
MyFamily.com
Want to have your family tree on the web but don't know HTML or how to get a page. MyFamily.com is one of the many places you could start. You could also research your family tree here as well
GenForum.Com
A Surname link
Higgins Book Company
Specializing in Genealogy and History
GenSource
This site provides the online genealogist with three databases to assist them with their research online
Browse Categories - Family Search
Has land records
Librarian's Index to the Internet
Old maps
lists old maps, prints and articles of interest to genealogists and historians, pertaining to the states of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey, California and Pennsylvania. There is a cost
Zip find
find that elusive zip code
Census Links
Lost Classmates
Surname Search
Locality Search
KJ's Genealogy Links
The Gold Bug
have a large selection of reproductions of early maps of the U.S., Europe and the world, going
back to the 16th century.
Lutherans On line
A Genealogy Exchange Message Board
Foreign Names
This site will allow you to cross-reference Czechoslovakian, German, Hungarian, Polish or Slovakian given first names to their English equivalent
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