It is estimated that globally there are between 25 and 100
million people who make up the Scottish Diaspora. The developing interest in
discovering your roots is being met by a growing range of resources and
facilities and we are proud to have created a further such resource at the
Salmon Bothy.Our team of volunteers has been given training in helping
visitors to explore their roots and the facility includes PCs where
online
investigation can be carried out.
Additionally the museum will house a
steadily increasing library of information and photographs about the history
of the area, providing that all important extra dimension by which our
visitors can discover what life was actually like for their
antecedents.
Catalogue of ancestor charts
As we build up our resources library, the focus will be on collecting
material with specific relevance to the local area, i.e. Portsoy and the
parish of Fordyce.
One of the tools we intend to create for genealogical
research will be a catalogue of ancestor charts. Anyone with an ancestral
link to Portsoy is invited to complete a family tree, so that other
researchers sharing the same ancestors can make contact and exchange
information of mutual interest
