Highland Archive Service Contact or visit us
The Highland Archive Service consists of four Highland Archive Centre, Bught Road, offices covering the entire Highland Region. Inverness, IV3 5SS For enquiries concerning the areas of Skye Highland Archive Centre and Lochalsh, Caithness or Lochaber, the local archives can be contacted.
Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre Elgin Hostel, Dunvegan Road, Portree, Isle of Skye IV51 9EE Telephone: 01478 614078 E-mail: skyeandlochalsh.archives @highlifehighland.com Are you interested in Highland or Family Nucleus: The Nuclear and Highland Archive Centre Contact History? Come and see how the Highland Caithness Archive Archive Centre can help your research! Airport Industrial Estate, Wick Telephone: 01463 256444 Airport, Wick, KW1 4QS E-mail: [email protected] Opening Times Telephone: 01955 606432 [email protected] E-mail: north.highlandarchive@ Family History Archives highlifehighland.com Website: www.highlifehighland.com/ archives-service Mon 10am - 5pm 10am - 5pm Lochaber Archive Centre West Highland College, An Aird, Fort Tues 10am - 5pm 10am - 5pm William, Inverness-shire PH33 6FF Wed 10am - 7.30pm 10am - 7.30pm Telephone: 01397 701942/700946 We are a charity and rely on your donations. E-mail: lochaber.archives@ There is no charge to access the archive collections Thurs 10am - 5pm 10am - 5pm but it costs us a minimum of £10 per visitor to run highlifehighland.com Fri 10am - 5pm Closed the Archive Centre. Please give generously to help us preserve Highland history. Sat Closed Closed
High Life Highland is a company limited by guarantee registered in Scotland No. SC407011 and is a registered Scottish charity No. SC042593. Sun Closed Closed Archives Family History As well as... What are archives? Family History Resources Remote Research Archives are the records of official bodies, At the Centre, we hold various records that will We also undertake archive or family history businesses, societies and individuals which have assist in your Family History research, including research on your behalf for an hourly charge if been identified as worthy of permanent Highland Census records from 1841 - 1901 held on you are not able to visit one of our centres in preservation. Since they are a unique record of our microfilm, Highland Old Parish Registers held on person. For more information please contact us. past, archives need to be preserved in secure, microfilm, the International Genealogical Index, environmentally controlled conditions where they some Memorial Inscriptions from Highland burial Education and Outreach can be made available for research. grounds and an extensive reference library. Group visits can be arranged for school, academic For more information on any of the above or community groups and staff are available for categories of records such as areas or dates, please visits and talks daytime or evening as required. contact us. We provide resource packs for schools on various subjects such as Jacobites and the Highland connection to slavery. We run a variety of Archive and Family History classes throughout the year, both in our Archive Centres as well as with partner organisations throughout the Highlands. For information on any About our holdings of the above or any questions relating to At the Highland Archive Centre we have over six Education and Outreach, please contact us. miles of shelving to store records of hundreds of years of Highland history. This includes the records What do I need to know? of the counties of Inverness-shire, Ross and Before your visit to the Family History Centre, it Cromarty, Sutherland and Nairnshire. Records can be helpful to gather any information you relating to Caithness, Skye and Lochalsh and already have such as names, places, dates, any Lochaber are held at local repositories. certificates of births, marriages or deaths and any What records do we hold? information which may have been passed through The main series of official records we hold are those the generations. of the Highland Council and its predecessors. This Family History Consultations includes record series’ such as education records, We offer one-to-one consultations with our property records, poor relief records, Council Family Historian for an hourly charge, which are Scotland’s People minutes and much more. We also hold many booked for 1 or 2 hour slots at a time and can The Highland Archive Centre provides direct access hundreds of collections from individuals, societies result in the creation of a bespoke family tree. to the Scotland’s People network with 4 bookable and businesses, including Highland Health Board As part of the consultation we can access the spaces available. These can be booked for a day’s archives, Police archives, estate and family papers Scotland’s People website and other genealogical research via the Registration Service at a rate of £15 and Church records. sites as well as provide access to English and per day. For more information or to book a Some records are subject to viewing and copying Welsh Registration records. Gift vouchers are also computer phone 01463 256400. restrictions. For more information visit or contact us. available to purchase for this service.