This 54-minute digital download is a collection of mini features, which captures a diverse picture of a past North-East of Scotland society around Aberdeenshire from the early 1900s. This clip was produced as a resource to help genealogists, ancestral tourists, family historians and academics to better understand aspects of their ancestral past, and features the following;
• Clydesdale horses and the crofters cow working together as draft animals
• the operation of the hand threshing flail
• the Packman country retailer
• aspects of self-sufficiency which each local area had
• the feeing (hiring) of the kitchie quine (kitchen maid)
• the process of sourcing peat fuel from the moss for heating and cooking
• first-hand stories told in the Doric dialect which was used in your ancestral past and still used today
• enabling you to walk in the footprints of your family members who came before you
• the massive contribution they made to and in a past society how they like you used cutting edge technology and state of the art inventions to help them exist
• how they had a hard-labour intensive life, but all felt part of their society
• the contribution and positive impact they made to their society its development and evolution
• the legacy our ancestors left for our heritage today