MY grandfather Samuel Davidson Fowler was born in Culsalmond, Aberdeenshire in 1861, one of fourteen. He became a solicitor, travelled a bit – gold mining in Arizona, with two of his brothers.

I AM looking for information on a Annie Mckay, born 1881 in Macduff.

I AM seeking information on my husband's family; Charles Connon, died 1932 and his wife Jane (nee Stuart), died 1930.

I AM looking for information on John Adam, died in Banff July 17, 1832. I think he came from Aberdeen.

MY family has a 'legend' that an emigrant, surname Robertson, returned from New Zealand to recruit a brother to come and work with him on his sheep station, but he allegedly died on arrival at Mintlaw Station and it needed press coverage to identify his family.

DOES anyone know anything about a few of the Watson family that drowned in Whitehills in 1843?

I AM trying to trace any family history of William Wilson and Meg Bremner who lived at Nether Tullochs, Cairnie.

I AM seeking connections to descendents of Thomas Grant and Jane Edwards.

I AM trying to find some information on my great-grandad's sea life.

I AM trying to find any distant cousins of John and Isabella Green.

I AM seeking any information on William Lawrence, a Master Mason, and his family who lived in Boyndie Street, Banff up to 1901.

I AM looking for my cousin Cathie Wiseman nee Watson. When she was single she stayed in Whitehills at 29 Wilson Crescent.

I AM currently doing my family tree and would appreciate information anyone may have on Jane Watson, nee Smith.

I AM currently planning a trip this coming July 09 from Melbourne, Australia to Banff hoping to meet a relative/s of Robert Smith Shearer.

I AM seeking any information regarding my family history. Anyone with any information on William Gavin who married Elsie Baxter in 1880, please contact me. They had a son John Gavin, born sept 1888.

I AM trying to find information about my father, Henry Gardiner. He was born in 1925 in Macduff and was the youngest (I believe) of a large family.

I AM seeking information on Francis (Frank) McRobie, born in Fordyce about 1872.

I AM seeking any relatives or anyone who may have known about Francis Campbell. She was born in 1898 in Perthshire, and was a headteacher at a school in Grange, near Keith.

I AM looking for the father of Tyree and Taliska Yeardley. We were separated due to a family issue. It has been seven years, he has now moved on now and has a family of his own.

I AM trying to find information on my great grandmother, who was called Ann Jamieson.

I HAVE been trying to locate information on the name "Brander" who resided in the Banffshire area.

I WOULD like any information on Bathia Robertson who was born in Craigieford, Fordyce in 1808. She died in 1878.

I AM searching for descendants of my grandmother's sister, Agnes McKenzie.

I HAVE managed to get a copy of my grandfather's marriage certificate. He was James Gordon and was 19 years of age working/living at Home Farm, Aberlour, as a farm servant.

I AM interested in tracking down an old farming diary dating back to the 18th century.

I AM the grandson of John Forbes, stonemason of Buckie.

I WOULD like to find the parents of Isobel Mcpherson who married John Meldrum in Tomintoul about 1800.

ANDREW and Bertha (nee Stevenson) were married in 1912 in Banff. Andrew was a doctor/surgeon and died in 1946.

I AM trying to find information about my husband's great grandparents, Francis Forbes and Susan Ironside.

I AM trying to find the birthplace of my great great grandfather William Richard Patterson, born 1799.

I AM looking for information on James Massie b. 1819. He was an innkeeper, baker, grocer in Gamrie and married Jean Killah, or Killach.

I AM seeking relatives of the late John Stobie Smith, Flying Officer, who died aged 22 in an aircraft accident in France on 2nd January 1945.

I AM looking for information about my grandfather John Chalmers Taylor, of Boharm.

I AM a descendant of William Jack (born in Keith, 1768) and his wife Anne Watson (born in Fordyce, 1767).

I AM seeking assistance with tracking down the ancestors of my 3xg grandparents John Brown and Jean Cruickshank.

I WAS wondering if anyone could possibly help me in my research in regards to a disassembled group of miniature medals that I purchased on ebay about a year ago.

MY late mother was a Kindness that lived in a farm with a big family near Gamrie.

I AM looking for any information on my 2x great grandmother Ann Bruce (born Banff 1804), daughter of George Bruce and May Fraser.

IS there anyone who has information about Robert Innes, Margaret Gilchrist or their children?

I HAVE traced my father-in-law's tree (William Fetch Chalmers) as far back as I can to James Chalmers (b Alvah 1717) who married Christian Cheyne (b 1720) in Alvah on 27th May, 1744.

I AM searching for my family roots. My great-grandfather, Gordon Stuart Riddoch, worked for the railroad in Aberdeen but may have had family in this area.

MY grandmother, Jane, was born in 1865 at Cuminestown, (illegitimate) daughter of Jane Murray.

I AM trying to trace some family. The only information I have is her name I believe was Elizabeth Canavan.

I AM looking for information on any descendents of Hewson Thompson and Elsie Jacobs who operated Tommy's Cabins in Banff.

I HAVE traced my family back to my great great grandfather John McBain, a master shoemaker in Aberchirder.

I AM seeking information on my great great grandfather, William Wilson. I have traced him back to 1855 with the birth entry of his first child - also a William.

I AM seeking information regarding George Thomson who appears on the 1861 census as 'nephew' living with William Lawson in Drumblade.

HAS anyone got any information about my great grandfather William Smith who was a police constable in Macduff around 1909 or my grandfather, also named William.

I AM trying to find information on my grandmother, Helen Jane Henderson, who was probably born in Deskford in 1880. Her mother was Jane Henderson and her father was John Jamieson.

I WAS wondering if anyone had any information on a Meal mill in Nethermill, Grange.

I AM looking for anyone who may have information regarding Andrew Barclay, born circa 1550 in Banff.

I AM looking for ancestors in the Banff area of my great grandmother, Elizabeth McBeth Findlay.

I AM an amateur genealogist from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Since undertaking my family history research eight years ago I have located my kin and ancestors across Canada, in parts of Ireland, in Australia and New Zealand.

I AM trying to track down information or descendants of Alexander Barclay, born 1844 in Alvah, Banffshire and died September 1921.

I AM seeking information on the family of my great great great grandparents, James Sim (1770-1853), married to Elspeth Mitchell nee Elder.

I AM seeking any information on Alexander Ironside, probably born 1796 approximately at Bedlam, New Deer, Aberdeenshire? This is open to question. He married Ann Harrold at St. Nicholas, Aberdeen 4 July 1818.

CANADIAN Elricks (Norman Garth and; Richard Keith) will be visiting Aberdeenshire, Inverness, and Buckie in Spring 2008 seeking relatives of Dad.

I AM trying to find out more information about my ancestor Andrew Mitchell who lived in Ramsburn in Rothiemay and died in 1864.

I AM looking for ancestors of Jane Anderson, born 1770 at Headstoun on Cullen, and married to James Shand of Cornhill Farms.

I AM looking for descendents of John and Ada Gray nee Plouman b.1879. She was my great grandmother’s youngest sister.

I AM researching my family tree and looking for information on James Urquhart (Hairdresser) b: about 1864 Potetown, Aberdeenshire.

I AM looking for information on Eliza Maggie Sim Lemmon b: 1876 Banff, Banffshire.

JUST came across your interesting website, while seeking information on Tarlair because a relative told me that my great grandfather, William Bell, ran a confectionery business there during the 1920s.

I AM looking for the family of George Craigen who was born in Keith about 1855, but lived his life in the Gardenstown area.

I AM in search of any living relatives or anyone able to help in finding any relatives in the Banff area.

I AM hoping to find the descendents of Daniel Smith and Anne Grant (b 1791).

DOES anyone have information about the Thomsons who lived at Ramsburn, Rothiemay?

I AM putting together a list of people who worked at the Television Service at Aberdeen University during the 1970s, and I wish to make contact with one of the secretaries there then who came from Banff, named Lesley Sutherland.

MY grandad was born in Fife Street, Banff. All of the family I have traced so far were born in the same Street.

THIS location features for many years as the property on which a branch of my ancestors lived and worked.

CAN any reader identify the two gentlemen on the right of this old photograph, taken in Macduff, probably between 1916 and 1920?

AFTER visiting Scotland two years ago I've hit a dead end with my family tree.

I AM looking for descendents of Isabella Gerrie. I think she marred a Robertson in 1920 in Banff .

I AM researching my Scottish roots, in particular my grandfather's family the Burnetts.

GEORGINA Corbet went to South Africa in 1939 with her husband Alexander Craib Corbet and daughter Mima.

I AM looking for family of William Innes & Ann Watt from the Banffshire area.

I AM trying to find the parents of Charles McLEAN b. 1807/8 in Whitehills, Banffshire, my great-great-great-grand father, family details as below:

I AM looking for descendants of Alexander Chalmers and Jean Allan, who married in Forglen in 1835.

SO far, research has shown all REIDFORDs within the UK, Canada, Australia and NZ are related in some way, with the earliest documented originating in the Marnoch area (Corskie Farm). Descendants scattered over NE Scotland, with several ending up in the Glasgow area by 1881, although the majority were between Banffshire and Fife.

MY great grandmother was born Ann Ingram 11th March 1851 to Alexander Ingram and Elspet Gerrie/Garioch. They lived at Mains of Glassaugh Fordyce.

I AM looking for any great, great grandchildren to Alexander INNES who married Ann Paterson 2 Dec 1819 in Grange.

I AM searching for family of James Gardiner Milne b. 1880 Fordyce d.1965 Fordyce.

DOES any Banffie reader have WWI etc information on our Watt family grandfather?

I AM looking for help in tracing some ancestors as part of a study of my family. My great great great grandfather was Andrew Donaldson of Ferniestrype Farm.

I am looking for any relatives of Sarah Thomson (parents John Thomson, baker and Jean Thomson nee McIntyre). I know they lived in Gellyburn Street for many years.

I AM anxious to contact descendants of my great great grandparents John Forbes and Catherine May who were married in 1850 in the parish of Cromdale and Inverallan and Advie, Inverness.

I AM researching the death of my husband's father, William Nicol Lindsay, who died when the steam trawler Sansonnet, from Aberdeen, was lost with all hands on April 3, 1940, when a bomb went down the boat's funnel, 18 miles east of Muckle Flugga.

I AM interested in contacting any descendants of my family Robert A West.

I AM anxious to contact descendants of members of my family, James Milne and Mary Mitchell.