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Huntly, Aberdeen, Scotland Cemetery Project
During the summer of 2008, the Gordon Branch Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints completed a community service project in the Huntly, Aberdeen, Scotland Muncipal Cemetery. An inventory of the 2500 epitaphs were transcribed, some with great difficulty because of the severe wear on many of the tombstones. Information was further verified by comparing records at the County Record Office in Inverurie, Aberdeen, Scotland. The County Record Office also provided details on who purchased the Lairs (plots) and the unmarked pauper graves. This project was a follow up from the previous year where church members transcribed the epitaphs from the newer extended section of the Huntly Cemetery. This 2008 project was spent on the older original section of the cemetery that had dates that went back as far as the late 1700s. The information compiled from the older and extended Huntly Cemetery gives valuable data for approximatley 10,000 people.

The Huntlly Cemetery was first used in the 1880's even though the Dunbennan Kirkyard continued to be used by families with burial plots there. (An inventory of the older Dunbennan Kirkyard, compiled by Patrick Scott is available as a book; a copy is found in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. The first (original) section of the Huntly Cemetery was filled and then an extension was added in the late 1930's.  A third section across the street from the original cemetery was placed in use in 1997.  The third section has not been transcribed.