The Family History Society of Buchan

Registered Scottish Charity SC035593

7 Oct 09 - FHSB Busy week

October is going to be a very busy time for the FHSB. As well as our first open meeting in Fraserburgh, there is another graveyard day at St Fergus and an appearance at the heritage day. Please pop along and see us.

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13 Jul -09 - FHSB Database Index Update

 Due to the release of the Constitution Street MI’s CD-rom a further 9500 records have been added to the FHSB database bringing the total to over 16000 records. The index for the database is located in the Members’ Area of this Website and access is free to all FHSB members. The full database is held in the FHC in Peterhead and members may access it themselves or contact the FHC and ask for the details of a record to be forwarded to them. The major contributions are the indexes of St Peter’s and Constitution St MIs and the Ancestral Charts submitted by our Members

12 Jul 09 - Aa the Claik - Summer 09

The best yet, this newsletter contains fantastic articles about Tom Townsley - Peterhead’s own David Beckham who played for Peterhead FC before achieving fame in the English leagues. Also, great family articles about Mary Forbes of Invernettie and Anna Smith of The Broch plus lots, lots more. (There’s even a photograph of a grey-haired man impersonating me). Past issues are available to members via the members’ area as normal

10 Jul 09 - FHSB first Book - Peterhead Street Names

The FHSB is about to release it’s first book - Peterhead Street Names by David M Bertie. A definitive history of the streets and places within this Buchan town. This book is available for order on our on-line shop and will be available from the 18th July at all our locations in Scottish Week 2009 as well as the FHC. click here to access out online shop and view more details about the book

3 Jul 09 - Constitution Street Memorial Inscriptions CD-rom

 At last this long awaited CD is available - the FHSB Members who ordered this CD and indicated that they would collect it from the FHC is now available for collection. All the pre-orders have been parceled up and are about to to be shipped. Anybody else wishing to order this fine CD, please click here for our online shop and view the details about the CD

1 Jul 09 - Scottish Week 2009

The FHSB is pleased to announce that we are hosting a number of events during Scottish Week in Peterhead. See us at Arbuthnut House, Churchyard walk and at the Peterhead Port Authority Auction Hall. Click here for details. All FHSB members should note that the Scottish Week programme has an error. The Graveyard walk on the 26th July will be at CONSTITUTION Street Cemetery and not St Peter’s as advertised

25 Jun 09 - Open Meeting: Finding your Police Ancestors - Family History & Grampian Police Archives
 

Fiona Jane Brown of the Aberdeen & Region Oral History Association will be the guest speaker at the Next Open Meeting to be held on the 25 Jun 09 at 19:00hrs at Arbuthnot House, Broad Street, Peterhead. All members and prospective members are most welcome. This highly anticipated presentation will be followed by refreshments and a mingle. The normal pictures, books and CD’s will be available.

1 Jun 09 - Peterhead Cemetery, Constitution St. MI’s

FHSB Members can pre-order this exciting new CD. Over 9400 names appear in this fully indexed CD containing the MI’s within Constitution St. Cemetery. FHSB Members can pre-order the CD for £10 (plus P/P) instead of the normal members’ price of £12.(plus P/P) The CD will be available to Non-members from 1 Jul 09, price £15.(plus P/P) click here to go to our new online shop

13 May 09 - Press Releases

 Read all about our fantastic lottery grant to purchase microfilms and the next St Fergus graveyard working day - It’s all in two recent press releases issued by the FHSB into the local press. Click here for details

12 May 09 - Open Meeting - Aberdeen Around the world

An excellent presentation by Fred Bull about all the towns around the world named Aberdeen. Fred enlightened the membership on how each of the 35 towns named Aberdeen were named and their links back to the original Aberdeen. Prior to the presentation Cllr Stuart Pratt of Aberdeenshire Council presented the Awards For All award to the FHSB.

6 May 09 - Awards for All Grant

The Family History Society of Buchan has been boosted with the news that the “Awards for All”, part of the Big Lottery Fund has awarded the FHSB an award of over £9000 to purchase new microfilms - more details to follow soon.

4 May 09 - Open Meeting (11 May 09) - Aberdeens

An illustrated talk on the number of towns and cities around the world named Aberdeen will be given at our next Open Meeting. Guest speaker Fred Bull, who has written a book on the subject, will make the presentation at 7pm on Monday, May 11 at Arbuthnot House, Broad Street, Peterhead - All members and non-members are welcome.

1 May 09 - Latest News to Resume

Due to circumstances beyond our control the Latest News page has not been updated. Normal Service will resume from today. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

3 March 09 - Jacobite Muster Document.

The FHSB has obtained a copy the complete Muster roll of the Jacobites that fought at Culloden. This document listed every ‘soldier’ by name, what happened to them, and the regiment they fought with. It often contains the hometown and occupation of each Jacobite. Additionally the FHSB has the Tilbury Prison Roll that lists the punishment each captured ‘rebel’ received while imprisoned in Tilbury. A must for all Scottish family historians. Until copyright ownership can be verified the document is only available to view at the FHC. Non local members - please contact the FHC by email with any queries about this document

28 Feb 09 - AGM Venue confirmation

 The venue for this year FHSB AGM will be held in the Arbuthnot House, Broad St, Peterhead on the 12th March at 19:00 hrs. Note: Arbuthnot House not Arbuthnot Museum.All Members and prospective members are most welcome. Following the AGM will be a members clinic where members can seek advice on their research

25 Feb 09 - Your Family History Recognises FHSB

 The April 09 edition of the the highly respected “Your Family Tree” Magazine remarks on the establishment of Scotland’s newest family history society. Only a short paragraph but other magazines have taken an interest in the recent Official opening conducted by the Rt Hon Alex Salmond MP MSP. so watch out for futher news

23 Jan 09 Annual General Meeting 2009

The Society’s AGM will be held on Thursday 12 March 2009 at a venue to be decided. All details appear on the new AGM page which can be found under the “Articles” page or by clicking here. Committee Nomination forms can also be found there but these have to be returned by the 26 February 2009.

18 Jan 09 Open Meeting - Change of Speaker

Fiona Watson from the Hospital Records has kindly agreed to replace Peter Mennie as the guest speaker for the 19th. This will be a very informative talk with Fiona outlining the available records from the Hospital.

19 Dec 08 Volunteers Required

The FHSB is about to start an exciting project, it hopes to release the Constitution St Cemetery, Peterhead MI’s in the New Year. Volunteers are needed to index, proof read and format the MI ready for production. Volunteers are urgently needed to assist in this exciting project. All you need is a PC with MS Word, spare hours and determination. You do not even need to be local, if you can help please contact Alan on the administrator’s email address....

17 Dec 08 Open Meeting

The next FHSB Open Meeting will be on the 19 January 2009 Our speaker is now confirmed as Peter Mennie from the Gordon Highlanders Museum. His talk will be on the Boer War (1899 - 1902) and the Records of the Gordon Highlander’s Museum. The Meeting will start at 19:00 in the Arbuthnot House, Broad Street, Peterhead.

16 Dec 08 Official Opening

The Family History Society of Buchan is pleased to announce that the Society’s Official Opening will be conducted by Rt Hon Alex Salmond MP, MSP, the First Minister of Scotland. The opening will take place on the 17 January 2009 at 14:30 in the Arbuthnot Museum. Details to follow...........

10 Dec 08 - Winter Newsletter No 4

The best newsletter yet, with articles about Peterhead Shipmasters, Capt. James Winter, The Robbie family, Peterhead a Century Ago and much, much more - Well done to Sheila and her team - This newsletter is about to be forwarded to all members...

7 Dec 08 - 1841 Census

The FHSB has acquired the 1841 Census, on microfilm for Aberdeenshire and St Fergus, Banff. This resource is available free of charge to all members in the FHC. We now have the 1801 (Peterhead), 1841 (Aberdeenshire & St Fergus), 1851 (Aberdeenshire) and the 1881 (UK) Census available within the FHC

5 Dec 08 - Database Update

Another 800 new records have just been added to the database. These new records result from members submitting Ancestor Charts to the FHC. The database has now nearly 5300 records. The FHSB database is held in the FHC and members may access it themselves or contact the FHC and ask for the details of a record to be forwarded to them. An index of this database is located within the Member’s Area. Could all members, who have not done so already, please submit their charts soonest

1 Dec 08 - Christmas and New Year Arrangements

The FHSB wishes all it’s members and their families a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. The Family History Centre will close on 22 Dec 08 and re-open on the 05 Jan 09. Visitors traveling to the Buchan Area, wishing to use the Centre should contact the FHC Manager and arrange an appointment. Details are on the Contacts Page. Appointments can only be made when the Arbuthnot Museum is open.

4 Nov 08 - FHSB reaches it Century

The FHSB has reached a new milestone with our 100th Member. An outstanding achievement in only a few months. If you have not signed up please complete the membership form and forward it to us. Remember we accept payment in five currencies.

8 Oct 08 - Open Evening

The FHSB hosted an Open Evening in Arbuthnot House in Peterhead where the guest speakers were Shirley Dickie our local Registrar and Rita Gordon our Family History Centre Manager. The talks were highly informative and interesting. The FHSB would like to extend a special welcome to the 5 new members that joined on the evening. Our thanks go to Shirley and Rita for all their efforts.

8 Oct 08 - Aberdeenshire 1837 Trade Directory

Today the FHSB obtained the above publication. It lists all the tradesmen within the towns and villages within Aberdeenshire including a brief description of the said towns and villages. All members can utilise this resource within the FHC.

3 Oct 08 - Open Meeting 9th October

The Family History Society of Buchan will be holding its next open meeting on Thursday 9^th October at Arbuthnot House in Peterhead at 7pm. This time we will have two speakers; Shirley Dickie, our local Registrar, will be giving us an insight into the records she has available for the family researcher in the registrars office in Peterhead, and Rita Gordon will be talking about other records available for the local area, such as the Poor Law registers . Click here for more details

22 Sep 08 - Aa the Claik No3

Our latest newsletter is published today - Its bigger and better than ever... Click on the Aa the Claik” logo(upper right). Edited by Sheila Allan and the DTP carried out by Elizabeth Robertson

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Aug/Sep 08 - St Fergus MI’s

Over a weekend in August the Society started to record the MI’s in St Fergus Churchyard. The weather was very kind to us and over a quarter of the graveyard was recorded. Next trip to St Fergus will be the 27th Sep 08. St Fergus Kirkyard is locally known as the ‘Pirate’s Gravies’ and is renown for the skull and crossbones appearing on many of the gravestones. Any volunteers please contact Anne.

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