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2. Principal Libraries with Family History resources
The Dick Institute
Elmbank Avenue
KIlmarnock
KA1 3BU
Tel: (01563) 554310
Fax: (01563) 554311
Opening hours:
Other Libraries:
Baird Institute History Centre & Museum
3 Lugar Street
Cumnock
KA18 1AD
Telephone & Fax: (01290) 421701
Email: [email protected]
Contact: Anne Geddes, Heritage Services Librarian
Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 1000-1300, 1330-1630; Wednesday, Saturday: closed
3. Research Service
Service available?
Yes
Fee-based?
[to be confirmed]
Provided by local Record Office?
Not known
4. Births, Deaths and Marriages
Registrar General's Indexes from 1837 (microform), or Registrar General for Scotland's Computerised Index from 1855.
Locations
Not held
5. Census returns
Dick Institute: 1841-1891 for all of Ayrshire (excluding Auchinleck 1841)
Baird Institute:
Ayrshire census returns 1841-1891
6. Directories
6(a) County and Regional Directories
Dick Institute: Ayrshire 1851-2
Baird Institute: Ayrshire 1851-2, 1887
6(b) City and Town Directories
Ayr: Dick Institute: 1841
Ayr: Baird Institute: 1864-5, 1876-7, 1884-5, 1886-7, 1888-9, 1898-9, 1900-1, 1904-16, 1920-1, 1924-5, 1930-1, 1934-5, 1938-9, 1940-1
Cumnock Baird Institute: 1882-92, 1896, 1910
Kilmarnock Dick Institute: 1833, 1846-7, 1851, 1855-6, 1868, 1872, 1879, 1882-3, 1884-5, 1887-8, 1892-3, 1895-6, 1898-1900, 1901-3, 1904-6, 1907-9, 1910-12, 1913-15, 1923-5, 1928-9, 1933-5, 1939-42, 1951, 1957, 1976
6(c) Telephone Directories
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7. Electoral registers and polls books
7(a) Electoral Registers
Voters Rolls: Dick Institute: Kilmarnock 1833, 1837, 1841 and 1852
Voters rolls: Dick Institute: North Ayrshire 1879/80
Baird Institute:
Archives from Cumnock and Doon Valley District
7(b) Poll Books
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8. International Genealogical Index (IGI)
Dick Institute. 1992. Microfiche
Baird Institute. 1988. Microfiche
9. Unpublished Indexes
Dick Institute: Ayrshire Collection Index - an incomplete index to newspapers, books, etc.
Baird Institute: Local History Collection Index - modern material in automated catalogue
10. Parish Registers
Dick Institute: Ayrshire O.P.R. Microfilm
Baird Institute: Old parish records for Ayrshire
11. Periodicals (excl. newspapers)
None
12. Published Transcripts of Archival Material
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13. Other material
Gravestone inscription information held at both locations
14. Guides to Collections
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15. Local Record Offices
Regional Archives
County Buildings
Wellington Square
Ayr
KA7 1DR
Tel: 01292 266922
Other information
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