Ongoing projects
If you would like to offer assistance with any of these projects, please contact the Projects Co-ordinator
Glasgow Cathedral Burial Project
This Project aims to plot on a Grid Pattern and record the burials in the Old Burying
Ground of Glasgow Cathedral, which date from the 1600s onwards. We also research
the background of those buried there, who are mainly the rich and famous of Glasgow,
a veritable "Who's Who" of a bygone age. We are not yet at the stage where enquiries
can be taken, but the Project continues and we are almost finished locating all
the stones (some are under grass now) and hope to finish he project by spring 2012.
Glasgow Necropolis Stones and Monuments recording project
Photographing and transcribing the stones, monuments crypts and mausoleums has been
going on for a number of years, We are pleased to inform you that we are almost
finished the photographing and are now busy transcribing and checking all the data.
We hope to complete the photography part by November this year and launch all the
photographs, transcriptions and compartment (sections) map by Easter 2012 on CD's
or DVD. We will inform you of our progress early in the New Year 2012.
Pedigree Chart Project
Members are encouraged to submit one or more ancestral charts for the
purpose of creating, first a Marriage Index, and possibly later on a Birth Index.
Offers of help to :- Pedigree Co-ordinator
Scottish National Death and Burial Index
Undertaken by
S.A.F.H.S. with the member societies and the G.R.O. for Scotland, the aim
is to index all recorded pre-1855 deaths and burials in Scotland. The index for
the High Church of Glasgow, Govan, Gorbals, Barony, Calton and Ramshorn / Blackfriars
are available for sale on CD-ROM. These can also be searched on computer at our Research
Centre.
Genealogical Source Project
The Genealogical Source Project is a detailed survey of the source material
available in the West of Scotland, i.e. Glasgow and the pre-1975 counties of Argyll,
Ayrshire, Bute, Dumbartonshire, Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire. The aim has been to
produce a comprehensive guide to this material, including a note of missing items.
The project is now complete and will be published shortly. Enquiries to the
Publications Officer.
Southern Necropolis Project (with the Mitchell Library)
Indexing of the lair records
for the western section of this cemetery has now been completed. Queries from members
are welcome for burials up to 1880. The index gives name, age, lair number and date
of burial. Queries from members to :-Necropolis
Indexer.
Southern Necropolis Website
Ayrshire Indexing Projects
Ayrshire Indexing Projects. Completed so far are Poor Relief Applications
for Ardrossan 1859-1900, Kilmarnock 1845-1900, and Beith & Maybole to C1850.
The index consists of all names featured in each application, not just that of the
applicant; this shows listings of complete families. The 1851 Census Index for Kilmarnock
and the Index to Ayrshire Place Names from c1775 are also complete. Kilmarnock Laigh
Kirk Session Records 1643-1900 are now complete, as are School Admission Registers
for Sorn 1851-1926 and Mauchline 1916-1939.
Other projects with Glasgow City Archives.