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COUNTY OF ABERDEEN

LOCATION OF RECORDS

Sheriffdoms
Aberdeen County was served by the sheriff courts of Aberdeen and Peterhead. Historical records of sheriff courts pass to the National Archives of Scotland. For further details go to the National Archives of Scotland website or see Cecil Sinclair, Tracing Scottish Local History (HMSO, 1994) or Cecil Sinclair, Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors (HMSO, 1990).

JP court records
Justice of the Peace records for Aberdeen County are held by the National Archives of Scotland (those for Aberdeen City are held by Aberdeen City Archives).

Register of sasines and sasine abridgements
Registers of sasines for Aberdeen County are held by the National Archives of Scotland (RS.4, RS.5, and RS.8). Sasine abridgements for the county of Aberdeen, 1781-1982, are held by the National Archives of Scotland and by Aberdeenshire Council Archives. Aberdeen City Library's Local Studies Department hold sasine abridgements for Aberdeen County from 1781-1947, but do not hold indexes of persons or places earlier than 1869.

Other records
Over the next two years the SCAN website through its Online Catalogues and Knowledge Base will become the definitive guide to the location of historical records relating to places in Scotland. At present the best online guide to the location of historical records is the National Register of Archives' ARCHON website.