St Vigeans Church DD11 4RD
Genealogy
Unfortunately, the church no longer holds documents available for research. These have all been lodged with Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh. For a small fee, it is possible to book a day there to do your own research, and you may be provided with some assistance.
However, deaths, births, marriages, census records and some other Scottish records are now online and can be researched on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Searches are free, but to open most documents you pay-as-you-go. (You buy a sum of 'credits' and use them if you want to open a document you have found.)
Angus Council holds information about all burials in Angus. They can be contacted by email at burialgrounds@angus.gov.uk
but their records have been computerised by www.deceasedonline.com where they can be accessed on a pay-as-you-go basis whereby you buy 'vouchers' and use them when you want to open a document that you have found.
Some other Angus records that are held by the local council can be accessed by visiting their archives at Restenneth, outside Forfar. Contact angus.archives@angus.gov.uk to make an appointment.
Other websites are also available. Some are free to use and others require a subscription. You may like to search The Scottish Genealogy Society website for information pre 1855. www.scotsgenealogy.com
A website which may be of particular help to those researching their family tree, especially in the local area is
http://www.ancestor.abel.co.uk
This site is full of information and tips, and gives an index of where to find documents.
However, deaths, births, marriages, census records and some other Scottish records are now online and can be researched on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Searches are free, but to open most documents you pay-as-you-go. (You buy a sum of 'credits' and use them if you want to open a document you have found.)
Angus Council holds information about all burials in Angus. They can be contacted by email at burialgrounds@angus.gov.uk
but their records have been computerised by www.deceasedonline.com where they can be accessed on a pay-as-you-go basis whereby you buy 'vouchers' and use them when you want to open a document that you have found.
Some other Angus records that are held by the local council can be accessed by visiting their archives at Restenneth, outside Forfar. Contact angus.archives@angus.gov.uk to make an appointment.
Other websites are also available. Some are free to use and others require a subscription. You may like to search The Scottish Genealogy Society website for information pre 1855. www.scotsgenealogy.com
A website which may be of particular help to those researching their family tree, especially in the local area is
http://www.ancestor.abel.co.uk
This site is full of information and tips, and gives an index of where to find documents.
The only help we at St Vigeans may give enquirers is in the form of an alphabetical list of the tombstones at St Vigeans. Although this list, within the book Monumental Inscriptions, researched and produced by Tay Valley Family History Society, 1998, may not be borrowed, we do our best to help. However, if there is no tombstone or record of a person on a tombstone, we are unable to help further.
Below are maps of the Kirkyard with lettering to correspond to the references in the index of the book Monumental Inscriptions.
There is also a plan in the church showing the location of all the graves whether or not they have headstones. The reference numbers shown on it are those in accordance with those given on Deceased Online.
St Vigeans Church
