Links with other Web Sites
Aberdeen and North of Scotland Family History Society is an excellent society to join.
Andrew McHardy's website, for anyone who has not found it yet, provides invaluable information on Strathdon generally, Corgarf in particular and especially the McHardy Family of Corriehoul. It includes a transcription of the 1841 census for Strathdon, links to other relevant web pages and lots more. With Andrew' encouragement, others have focussed on neighbouring glens:
Latest on the scene is Cressida Potter's Glenkindie website, especially about her Reid ancestors.
In addition:
Suzanne Walker's web
site now provides invaluable and well-arranged transcripts of the Old Parish
Register and post-1855 death records for Strathdon.
Stuart Petrie has
compiled an invaluable index of census data for Strathdon and neighbouring
parishes including some in Banffshire
Sandra DeMartino (ms
McHardy) has a website for McHardys
in Ordachoy and other very useful OPR transcripts.
Deb O'Reilly's web site shows descendants of Archibald
Grassick in Wardhead, 1861 census data and lots more useful stuff.
Ian Downie in Aberdeen has helpfully included Downies
in Strathdon on his Downie website.
Don Thomson's web site
includes his ancestors Andersons
of Candacraig and also William Anderson in Invernettie.
Julie-Anne McHardy's web site includes letters between the descendants of Norman
McHardy, Corgarf
Jeanette Dall's
web site includes more about the Kellas descendants
Some Glen Nochty families inter-married with Doug Hay's ancestors - see his Glenbucket
web site.
Click here for the Gordons' Map of Strathdon prior to 1652
Edina Homepage provides access to the Statistical Accounts for Strathdon, written in 1790 and 1839, by going from the Homepage to Edina Services, then Statistical Accounts (within Arts, Humanities etc).
ScotlandsPeople (formerly ScotsOrigins) provides access to the index of Scottish births, marriages and deaths (and several census years) and the ability, for a reasonable fee, to obtain copies of the actual entries.
The Parish of Upper Donside is about the present day parish of Strathdon and neighbouring communities.
Discover Donside is another present day site published by the Upper Donside Community Trust.
Aberdeen University Library on its home page provides access to the index of its Historic Collections.
National Archives of Scotland is another site which a gateway to more detail - if you can visit Edinburgh.
The address for a Scots Dictionary is http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/index.html and a Google search throws up some more. Aberdeen University have the Elphinstone Kist http://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/kist/ and if you can't find your word, email them with some background and they'd be quite interested in it and will study it, especially if it's a teachers expression. There's also the Scots Language Society http://www.lallans.co.uk/.